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Ok, I'll kick it off. First up is mine - 27. Vienna Lager Don't know if it's true to style, but it is an easy to drink beer. Low hop character in all aspects, but nice toasted malt - fairly happy with this beer. I'll be interested to see if anyone else thinks there's a slight solventy edge...

Found this Make Your Own Vinegar, and it got me thinking that if you have some beer that you're not really all that keen on, it could do wonders on your fish and chips. For example, I've got a couple of bottles of ESB I made a while back that I'd be happy to turn into vinegar, I reckon it would...

Made a beer on the weekend, everything looks lovely up until I taste the wort. Forgot that Millennium is around 14.5%AA, and overdid it a little bit. 51 IBU is a bit more than I wanted, I was looking for somewhere above 20. This'll teach me to dream up recipes on the fly in the LHBS. I...

I have a recipe here that I want to pick up the ingredients for this afternoon on my way home from work. Now that I'm at work, I've realised the amounts I have in this are for a 38L batch, when I want to make it 46. Can someone who has ProMash or Beersmith handy scale this up to 46 L for me...

Someone had to do it, and I'm buggered if I'm waiting for someone else to do it. I hooked in today. 16. DoppelBrewer - Doppelbock What a good start to the swap. A delicious beer - not that I know what a doppelbock is, but I thoroughly enjoyed this beer. Malt, malt and more f$^%ing malt. Hint...

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/03/04/handheld...ing-uv-scanner/ I wonder how close you have to hold it to the intended surface/object? Still wouldn't make life easier than using my spray bottle of Herlisil FP, but pretty cool nonetheless.

I was comfortable with my old kit - I knew boiloff rates, deadspace values, strike temperature water, etc. then I went and upgraded. Now I have to figure them all out again. On the weekend, I boiled 47 litres for 90 minutes and wound up with 33L, which is near enough to a 30% boiloff/1.5hr...

A warning to anyone with a PET-based pressurised system such as a Tap-A-Draft, you may think that your PET gear will pretty much last forever (I did), and you ignore the manufacturer's recommendation that the bottles have an operating life of 10 or so brews. Here's the 11th time I filled a...

I'm yet to get a keg setup, so I'm still doing the bottling thing. One thing I've noticed is that beers that have spent some time in secondary, whether it be lagering or not, will take ages to condition in the bottle - because most of the yeast has dropped out of suspension and very little...

There's the CUB Clydesdales, then there's the homebrew version :

I want to convert my 'Willow' brand 44L rectangular esky into a all-growed-up mash tun. Unfortunately, I'm an IT guy who couldn't tell you the names of all the parts I need, hence this thread. I currently use a large triple stitched mesh bag in the esky. Grain sits in the bag while mashing...

I need a brew assistant. Number one candidate is my father, a VB and Melbourne Bitter drinker from years back. However, he dismisses AG as 'way too much bloody hard work'. I need to show him the light. I'm looking to make a beer that's -pale -PORed -inoffensive Basically, a beer that is how...

The Maiden Voyage Pale Ale is coming along nicely, pitched yeast into 1.038 wort Saturday morning, and now looks to be 1.015 or thereabouts, and am keen to get the second batch going. (The hydro samples taste delicious, too!) I'm thinking I could cook up the wort on Saturday, and pitch onto the...

I've currently got my spare fermenters sitting full of a potassium metabisulphate solution, is this going to harm them and any beers that may sail in her down the track? How do you keep your idle HDPE containers in tiptop shape during downtime?