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Hi all, As I've recently set aside the brewing hobby, I'm interested in clearing out my gear. In particular there are some nice ingredients wanting to be turned into beer. All ingredients & adjuncts, including storage containers and hops in freezer (not shown). Here is a beersmith inventory...

Message from 'Bendigo Malt & Hops' on Bendigo Homebrewers facebook page: OK brewers of Bendigo, here we go! Orders for 25kg bags of base malt now being taken, from now till 6pm Thursday 12th July. Order by email only bendigomaltnhops at hotmail dot com Prices start at $50 per bag for Joe White...

I'm working on a recipe for a small, biscuity uk-styled table beer. I just had a go at the '100 grains' technique for formulating and tweaking my malt bill before I settled on a recipe. This is something that Sean Paxton mentioned in the 'Cooking w/ brewing ingredients' show on the Home Brewed...

Hi Baddies, I'd like to suggest we have a winter meeting for our home brewing club at my place. This would allow us to share out the ingredients which mrpolly has donated to the club and possibly hold a brew day using some of these too. I am also planning to dig up my hop plants and would like...

Hi. A number of munich dunkel, bock & schwarzbier recipes call for Wey Carafa II malt. This malt appears to really boost malt aromas in your beer and of course adds colour. I have noticed that few homebrew shops carry the Carafa malts but do stock the Carafa Special varieties. I know the...

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I've been tinkering with water profiles in Beersmith. I'm not desperate to start learning about water chemistry but have been wondering how my local water matches ideal chemistry for brewing, say, a pilsner. The annual water quality report on the Coliban Water website does not provide much of...

I have a 30L urn which I use for BIAB. I want to brew this barley wine, based on a recipe on Sean Paxton, homebrew chef's website. Using my marga mill I am consistently getting 60% efficiency from my brews. I'm happy with this as I can get reproducibility and that's the important thing for me...

Yesterday I was brewing my pumpkin beer for the VIC swap. By the end, I was boiling the wort in the rain and must have looked like a weirdo squeezing the no chill cube in the wet, after dark. As I was packing everything away, I noticed an ice buildup around the base of the LPG bottle. At first I...

Hi all, I went to heat my strike water this arvo, and to my horror the Birko urn will not power up. Earlier on today I gave the urn a real good scrub, then to get the last little filaments of steel wool out I decided to hold the urn upside down and give the interior a hose out. I let the urn...

Hi all, I have a bag of milled grain sitting in the fridge that I'd like to use ASAP. There's 3kg pilsner and 2.5kg pale malt. Originally I intended to make a nice lager with this, but I've reconsidered with the temperatures being as they are and am thinking of an ale. In another post, GMK...

I have been boiling up a can of 'home brand' draught goo to use as yeast starter wort. As a general rule I have been using 1 part goo to 10 parts water, but now when I think about it I'm not sure where I got this from! I would appreciate feedback on quantities for making a nice starter wort (IE/...

Hello all, Well I'm glad I've got a sense of humour, because I've buggered up my Keep Cold mash tun a bit... Yesterday I installed a large-dial mashmaster mkii thermometer, which involved cutting a 19mm diameter hole with the hole saw. I think I mustn't have been thinking very straight, because...

Hi all, I was able to buy a half-converted S/S keg from another forum member, and need some advice on my options plumbing it with a weldless setup... The keg already has a 265mm hole cut in the top, and a 25mm hole cut for a tap. The tap hole is the one I'm thinking about at the moment... I...

Hello everybody, I'm looking for some advice about HLT setups. I have a fair-sized rectangular esky lying around, and I wonder if there could be benefits in converting it to an electric hot liquor tank. I suppose what I'm not sure about yet is the cost in buying a 2400 watt element that I can...

Greetings all, perhaps somebody will be able to lend some advice... I have a sweet milk stout in the works, which I've been using a "Mackinson Stout" recipe for (from the green Brewcraft book). I used: - Munton's export stout kit - Brewcraft #30 milk stout booster - 500g lactose - safale yeast...