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Hi, i am in the market for a new thermometre after my last digital probe decided it didn't like water inside of it. I have seen some thermometers in the US that have what they call "Quick Tip technology" that enables them to read "the correct temperature within 8 seconds or less"...

Hi, i have made two brews with Nottinghams Yeast recently. 1 a All Grain Cream Ale, and a ESB APA wort kit, both made with nottinghams. No hitches at all, strong ferment, low fermet temp, no apparent infections at bottling. The problem is both beers taste yuck, both somewhat drinkable, but they...

I have found that a number of fermenter taps leak through the actual otuput nozzle admittedly at a slow rate. I have since tried to replace them with brand spanking new ones, and some still leak and some leak after not much use at all ie 2-3 brews. The taps being the standard new coopers style...

I have read that unless i have an exact AA of a bittering hop and a very accurate scale, it is better to use a low AA hop to bitter ( i have the latter problem with scales that are slightly off). I am a bit confused as to which low AA hop i should use to give bittering yet a clean taste. Is...

I made a ginger beer recipe as per GMKs recipe pitched with WLP001 starter. Good ferment at 22 degrees in primary for 8 days and secondary since last friday. It tasted good all through the ferment, but i checked it out yesterday and it looked like it had an infection. It had 15-20 small white...

Hi, i have a briko 30L urn that is very new, with the intent to use it as a HLT. The problem is that the tap assembly is on the way out, as the internal rubber seals have degraded, for a replacement i have been quoted $120 by Zip (who are the distributors for birko spares) plus postage. Is it...

I'm sipping a Bluetongue ginger beer in apprehension at the moment, i can taste hardly any ginger in it at all. It has enough though that it doesn't drink like a normal beer. Very disappointed at $3.50 for a bottle, very very average. Tastes nothing like GMK ginger beer recipe which is in the...