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Hi All, After selling my complete brewing kit a couple of years ago, the bug has bit again and I'm looking for a 2nd hand electric brewhouse (BM20 / NANO-X BIABasket / etc.). I also need a malt mill, wort chiller, pump, all the usual accessories. Let me know what you've got!

So I need to clear all my brewing equipment, ingredients, and other stuff. This would be a great brewhouse for someone moving into all grain and has absolutely everything required to produce tasty cold beer. The 20L BM is user-friendly and makes great beer with a minimal amount of fuss. Most of...

Hi, Just wondering if others have encountered this. For two batches in a row, the beer brewed with WLP001, have fermented fine but not bottled conditioned. The first one was cold-crashed and bulk primed, the second one was cold-crashed and individually dosed. Is this usual for this yeast? It...

Heya, I boiled my diffusion stone a little too long and it separated. Any ideas on putting it back together...it just slides off at the moment.

Hi, I'm trying to find a Sydney source for Special Roast Malt (Briess). I've checked the online stores but if you know of someone, without an online store, who stocks it that would be great. Clever Brewing (Melbourne) sells it but I only need 200g (ONE Dollar!) and it's still 13$ for delivery...

Hi, Can't be bothered to culture bottle yeast so what other yeasts have people used with success? I was just going to use AndrewQLD recipe. Mainly to see if I've nuked the infection(s?). 3.5 kg JWM Export Pilsner 0.2 kg JWM Wheat Malt 0.03 kg JWM Dark Crystal 0.65 kg Cane Sugar

Hey, Just a little about my process first. I brew with a 20L Braumeister. Vit C added for chloramines. Wort cooled via a Therminator. And into fermenter. Oxygenate. Pitch yeast. Ferment in water filled (ice blocks) plastic containers. Crash in fridge 1-3 days. Remove airlock. Bottle prime and...

Hi, One of the eccentric adjustors on my mill came off. I looked on the interwebs and the MashMaster website and couldn't find any instructions. The adjustor is eccentric so I figure it needs a particular orientation so the roller is in an OK position before tightening the side-locking pin...

Hi, I'm trying to nail down an efficiency problem from the last five or so brews. I'm consistently 10 points lower than I should be (e.g. 1.060 not 1.070) on a BM20. I'm using a Brewhouse Efficiency of 68% at the moment but the last brew was 66.3%. On my last brew, Beersmith calculated the...

Hi, Interested to hear thoughts on this recipe. Particularly the DIPA malt/hop/alcohol balance. There are two yeast listed as I'll do a split batch. What about switching out the DME for dextrose? And up it to 10% of the bill (to dry it out a bit and reduce Vienna)? I'm also not sure if I...

Hi all, Made two 1.5L starters with 155g light DME for West Yorkshire 1469 (left) Ringwood Ale 1187 (right). Jan and Dec dates. Exactly the same other than yeast. It's been 17 hours (at 23c ish) and I've never seen a starter stay so dark as the 1187. Very strong butterscotch aroma and a lesser...

Heya, I bought a few Quickconnect female. 1/2" MPT about 2 years ago and they've worked well. However, I left them in sanitiser for a while and now they are almost impossible to get on and off. I guess they need lubing? How do I go about doing that? After way too much googling I found a video...

I'm gonna have a crack at a bière de garde and the recipes can be quite different in terms of conditioning. Gordon Strong reckons 4° C cold conditioning for 4 months whereas others say 10 days and drink as soon as carbonated (sounds great to me!). Any experiences of either/both methods? Neal

After fermentation of a split batch milk stout was complete (Irish Ale of Whitbread...can't remember), I added 4 vanilla pods, 120g of cocoa nibs, 375ml (ish) of bourbon, and 60ml of espresso to the 10L batch. Gently stirred and then bottled with 3g of priming sugar per bottle. I managed to wait...

Didn't label a container and I have a memory like a sieve. I think this is calcium chloride. Doesn't really have a smell. Google images seems to confirm but I'm unsure if there are similar looking brewing salts. Can anyone confirm?

Hi, Back in April 2017, I brewed a RIS whose OG was 1.124 and whose FG was 1.021. I should've boiled the wort for a bit longer to reach the target 1.155. ABV is about 12.5% I used O2 (initially and over the first few hours) and a 2L starter. I didn't add yeast to bottle but I did add sugar...

Had a few cans of this over the past couple of weeks and it's a great beer. The tropical hops absolutely smash their way through the very light malts. So much so I'm looking into cloning it. It has two malts: Torrified Wheat and Raw Barley And two hops: Idaho 7 and Nelson Sauvin Any ideas...

Hi, I hope I'm not overthinking this. I ordered 2 GigaYeast packs from Melbourne on Sunday and they arrived Wednesday arvo. The packs were hot to the touch so I slid a thermometer between them and the temp was 30c. I thought they were toast but they are proving to be tough. I cooled them a...

Hi, Due to a snafu on my side, I've ended up with 4L more than my target in a BM20. I used a calc to find out how much to boil off to reach my OG of 1076 and its 3.7L So I'm waiting for the BM to heat back up as I write. 3.7L is probably another 60 min boil at least. Is it OK to just keep...

Hi, I'll be having a crack at the Brew Dog Electric India clone on the weekend. I'll split the 20L batch into 2x10L batches. With the first being the 'standard' recipe with a malt and honey substitution. The second batch, however, I'm stuck on. At first I thought about dry-hopping but from what...