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I remember (!) a story in the paper about a bloke who lived to 100. Asked what his secret was he replied 'Beer and cigarettes'. It's all the genes. Cheers.

I spend my waking hours working a printing press in Perth. We charge $3 per sheet of adhesive. We can fit an average size label 12-up on a sheet, so that works out at about 25 cents per label. Some of my bottles still have labels from 5 years ago. Any questions, feel free to ask. If you're...

Quote from the Imam on the brewery wall... ' It looks delightful but has ugly consequences.' He must have had a secret blinder one night on the dreaded VB.

T-58 for the Ten-Percent Bastards. US-56 for the Little Creatures.

Ask them what their description of VB was (if it ever was a 'Beer of the Month'). Should be good for a laugh. :o

Kook, do you know if Roy from TWOC has Bramling Cross?

If I was to use one variety of hop for Belgian strong dark ale, what would you recommend? I know I should use two for bittering and flavour, but I'm on a budget. Damn. I'll be picking up 100g.

I reckon most of you blokes are making this up. The amount of grief my partner/wife/whatever puts me through is enough to want to make a lesser bloke turn to religion. But I press on, that's the main thing, because I know a better beer is just around the corner, you just got to give the current...

Alas, I never touch spirits, so I'm not a very good Scotsman. But the Scots do brew good beer as well. Yes, I've googled until my eyes have bled and picked up a few good places. Just wondering if anybody had personal experiences.

Taking a wee trip back to the old country for a wedding and spending a month tooling aroond. I'll be visiting some of the more lonesome breweries on the Orkney (Orkney Brewery, Highland Brewing Co.), Shetland (Valhalla Brewery) and Faroe Islands (Foroya Bjor) towards the end of the trip. Has...

A good read is 'Brewing an Award Winning Chocolate Porter' by Gregg van Citters (Maltose Falcons). Google 'brewing chocolate porter' and you'll find it. Excellent info there. He reccommends adding the chocolate to secondary.

In the absence of Mt Hood and Columbus, what would be the next best hop-wise?

I've used it in a Imperial Stout. No complaints at all. :beerbang:

I read that...so to power your own house you'd have to brew a hell of a lot of beer. Maybe just enough for the garage...Good idea though. Maybe there's a grain of truth when people refer to VB as 'battery acid'.

Talking to a mate at work about Mann's sweet brown ale from the U.K. Sounds pretty fine. Anybody got some sort of a recipe for this sort of ale? I do partial mashes with about 2.5kg of grain.

Does it make a difference (taste-wise) at what stage the LME is added when doing partial mashes? I don't add the LME when the boil is going. I've always added it to the fermenter before straining the wort. If I do add it to the boil, when should it be added. Same goes for dextrose. Should this...

I get all my grain from Roy at TWOC in Western Oz. I haven't seen any Mild on the shelves there.

A few recipes I've seen ask for English Brown malt. Is there anything close to this? Also, while I'm asking questions, how much cara-aroma is too much in a 25 litre batch? I've seen a mild extratct recipe that asks for 400g. Is this ok? I haven't used cara-aroma to date. Thanks in advance.

Madonna's unspeakable yellow ewok bock. Ha!

I've got a nice big starter of Wyeast 1388 in the fridge and a hankering to do a IPA. Anyone used this yeast in a English strong ale? I can't see it doing any harm, but thought I'd better check.