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They'll all change as of July 1 anyway (well most states anyway). Might be best to hold off a few days and see what the retailers offer. Also, don't be fooled by the ones offering a massive discount.....if their base rates are high then the massive discount might not count for much against a...

That picture makes perfect sense mate, that’s the “spring loaded wheel” I was referring to. Thanks again mate will try it tonight. Now to sort out a stand to get the burner off the concrete!

G’day AHB, I’m wondering if someone can shed some light on a possible issue with my Gasmate 2 Ring Burner. I’m pretty dense when it comes to hardware and stuff like that, so that combined with the lack of instructions that came with the burner may mean I’ve put it together wrong. Basically the...

G’day, At the risk of biting off far more than I can chew, can anyone suggest a good resource for the preferred water parameters for different beer styles? I have downloaded the water analysis from Sydney Water for my area (I hope it’s correct) and would like to see what styles are best suited...

Beauty, again thank you all for the helpful info. When I got home from work last night I set my fridge temp controller to 18, will leave it there till Saturday then drop it down for a chill (might even transfer to the keg first then chill it). I'll report back in a few weeks once I'm game...

If I raise the temp for a diacetyl rest, should I drop it back down to 10-11 for final ferment, or will the raise in temp accelerate the last few points of fermentation? All part of the fun of learning, I really do appreciate all of the comments.

Boil was 60 minutes, and using S-23 at 10-11 degrees.

I did not even consider that....makes perfect sense! I ran my situation by an AG brewer here at my work who also suggested that perceived bitterness can be less in uncarbonated beer, something to do with carbonic acid?

Thanks beer belly, I’ve got around 250g of light malt that I’ll boil up tonight in 2.5L and chuck in some extra POR. I’ve decided to ditch the idea of racking the hot wort into a cube and will instead get a weldless ball joint and go that route instead, thank you anyway for the suggestions.

Thanks mate, think I was a bit too gung-ho and should have just let it sit longer in the pot before trying to move into the fermenter. It’s cleared up quite well so far and I hope that cold conditioning will help further. I reckon I’ll go the no-chill route for next time, mainly so I can do a...

G’day, On the 11th January I made my first BIAB batch, coming off the back of 16 months of kits ‘n’ bits and extract brews. I deliberately chose a very basic recipe consisting roughly of: 3kg Pilsner 0.5kg Wheat 0.3kg Crystal Pride of Ringwood, approx. 30g at 60 minutes S-23 yeast. Being that...

Cheers fellas, as luck would have it my shifter is a couple of millimetres too small so will fix it up tomorrow. I can screw the thread quite far by hand, as you say it must just need a touch up with a spanner.

I couldn't see any on the reg, and I added one of the ones that came tied to it.

Best way I can describe the washer us that it sits on the part of the reg that butts up hard against the cylinder connection, then the collar slides over and screws over to make the connection.

Newbie alert! I have a Keg King Mark II regulator, and just picked up a 6kg co2 cylinder from BOC. It looks like the regulator doesn't want to fit on the cylinder. I've put one of the white regulator washers on and tightened the collar up by hand, but still get gas leaking out at the...

Good point re the “force carbonation” mate. I’m tempted to drop the temperature in the fermenting fridge a bit earlier and pick up my gas bottle for this weekend. Although if by some slim chance the ferment wasn’t 100% finished and I transferred to the keg, could the extra gas made by...

Cheers fellas. Yeah the ferment should be finished on day 14 so no problems there, the only issue I can foresee is temptation getting the better of me and trying a pint after a few days. Actually, I might do that anyway as a way of checking if I have the correct length of beer line.

Hi AHB, I have an extract brew fermenting away at the moment (8 days into fermentation using Nottingham) that I plan on crash chilling in the fermenter once it hits 14 days and then transfer to the keg after 2 or 3 days. As this will be my first time kegging a brew and I want to take baby...

Hmmmm might have to get some more, the lhbs gave me about 1.5m and I think its 6mm ID. Oh well, plenty of time to get some more.

Cheers mate. Haven't got the kegs up and running yet, just trying to get my head around it all. I can get the hose on fairly easily, let's hope its tight enough.