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Upgrade from bottling to 8x 3.2L bottles, on gas right out of your fridge :D See ad here for details and a few more photos: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/1140288929 Pickup is in Murrumbeena (S/E Melbourne Suburbs).

I saw this on Melbourne Freecycle and thought it would be perfect for a keezer or temp-controlled fermentation chamber. "On offer is an old front-opening freezer (Not upright chest freezer) modified with a digital temperature control. In working condition. Photos available upon request. Pick up...

I have some bottles I've been hording that are surplus to my needs. There's a range of sizes, mostly quite clean – stored in cardboard boxes – but they will need another decent rinse/clean, plus sanitise of course, before being filled with amber nectar of the gods. Free to good, loving home...

The Immigration Museum on Flinders St is doing some Scottish exhibition and are running a Whisky tasting workshop. 12:40pm or 2:10pm start $15 'festival' entry + $23 tasting workshop. Me and the Mrs had tickets (to 2:10pm start) but we're sick. I may still go if I can convince her I'm feeling...

"Ice fishermen on Lake Waconia in Minnesota were pleasantly surprised when a Wisconsin brewery, Lakemaid, flew a twelve-pack of their frothy suds over the icy wastes to their warm fishing cabins using a hefty, remote-controlled quadcopter. It was a match made in zero-degree weather: the brewery...

Just set up my ghetto ag gear and wanted to get a critique on whether anything stands out as particularly unsafe. Wok burner minus the shield (seen in background) is buried in the bricks. I know my old WHSO would not appreciate the suspended temp probe cable, but then again, **** her.

Uh-oh, look out. Noob with HSA question! If you aerate your hot water BEFORE adding your grains to the mash, will the oxygen eventually bind to the proteins, possibly causing downstream hot side aeration? I ask because the hot water in my house comes out at about 65c (hmm, convenient). If I...

I'm planning an Australia day beer, based roughly around the Mountain Goat Steam Ale recipe which was posted recently, but with the inclusion of weetbix to cover some of the wheat portion of the grist. I BIAB so stuck sparge should hopefully not be an issue, especially with the fairly low...

This week I got notified of a new "Craft Beer Brisbane" meetup.com group. I'll probably make it down to see what calibre of gentlemen & women materialise. It's still pretty low on numbers, which is why I'm posting it here :) Their first meetup is 6pm Tue 9th July at Tippler's. Here's the...

I'll be brewing two batches; a full 23L and a 5L test batch (first all grain mash for me). I've got my starter on and have calculated that it should create enough yeast cells for both batches. Both brews are pretty similar - a pale ale and an english bitters - hence using the same starter...

I was fortunate enough to get some cuttings a few weeks back, thanks to Frag_Dog. I'm stoked that three of them successfully took root in a peat/sand mix. I just gave 'em a good firm tug and they didn't budge, wahoo! Great advice on this forum, I'm sure they wouldn't have survived otherwise...

My current batch was supposed to be an extract witbier. The recipe I found asked me to steep flaked oats and flaked wheat. After around a week in the fermenter I noticed there was a lot of material at the bottom of the fv. Around 2L for a 15L batch. My hydrometer samples are now a lot...

I'm brewing my first beer and had planned everything to a "T" including using the mrmalty calculator to get my yeast cell count right. If I've pitched the right amount of yeast, do I need to be concerned about top-cropping the yeast and reducing the overall amount? Or by high krausen is...

I was looking around for cheap ingredients and somehow found that dextrose is fed to horses to up their energy intake... At the high risk of looking stupid, can Dextrose from a horse supply store be used for brewing / has anybody done it before? On www.garrardshorseandhound.com.au 2Kg is $12...

Hi everyone, I received a Brigalow home brew kit for Christmas and have read that Brigalow is notorious for producing sub-standard beer. Does anybody know whether this has changed over the years? From the ingredients, is anything worth using? - 1.7kg Brigalow lager kit - 1kg dextrose -...