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Oh and further to my original post, if anyone out there is a brewer or knows of a brewer that requires an assistant (or any other position that may get my foot in the door) please feel free to send me your contact details so that we can have a chat or I can send you out my resume. Also Im...

Hehehe, there is no way that I would be F*#$ up a perfectly good hobby, by making it my career. I think it would be great to make my hobby my career. Whats that saying.... "that if you do a job that you love doing then you will never work a day in your life". So if I take up brewing (which I...

Hi all I'm at a bit of a cross-road with my career. I have been working as a Laboratory scientist for a couple of years but find the work quite boring. I therefore recently started looking at other career options that I could use my university degree (BSc in Microbiology). I thought why not try...

Ok so next time I will keep the brew in the primary fermenter for an additional week and then chill overnight before bottling. But this raises a another problem for me, what is the longest time that one can keep a brew in the primary fermenter before it will go off. I normally do 14 days. Jason

Hi all, I appear to have a lot of yeast sludge at the bottom of my bottles which were primed and bottled only a week ago. I have not changed any of my procedures when making this batch (i dont rack into a secondary, I just bottle from primary). The only thing I have changed is the yeast. For...

Thanks for the advice all. This BU:GU ratio will definitely come in handy.

Hi all Just wondering if someone could tell me where I could find the IBUs of common Australian beers, in particular Little Creatures Pale ale. The reason being so that I know how far I can push the bitterness in my brews. Thanks J

Thanks for the advice people. I think I will go with the following: 1) Use US56 instead of SafealeSo4. 2) Use the following hop schedule: 17.00 gm Pride of Ringwood [9.00%] (60 min) 25.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (15 min) Hops 25.00 gm Amarillo Gold [8.50%] (5 min) Hops 50.00 gm Amarillo...

Hey all, just need some advice on hops flavour. I brewed the following: Type: All Grain Date: 6/11/2006 Batch Size: 18.93 L Ingredients Amount Item Type % or IBU 3.50 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 85.4 % 0.40 kg Munich, Light (Joe White) (17.7 EBC) Grain...

Lucky I read the last posts. I was about to use the WD40. Ok, ill give cooking oil and a light scrub with a wire brush a go. Thanks all for the advice J

Thanks for the all the advice people. A friend just told me to try and clean it up with a bit of WD40. So Ill give that ago.

Hi The rollers on my recently purchased barely crusher have developed a number of patches of rust. The crusher has not been exposed to any moisture that I know of. Could someone give me some advice on what I can do to prevent this rust. Thanks in advance J

Abit off the topic. But are there any safety concerns in keeping the gas tank + regulator in the fridge? Ive noticed alot of US kegging setups place there gas tanks in the fridge. I just want to minimise drilling holes into a perfectly new fridge when I go down the kegging pathway. J

Having read all these posts I just ordered a barley crusher from Grain and Grape at 20% off the retail price. I think they are having a sale if anyone is interested. J

I get my grains precrushed as i dont have a grain mill so that is something i cannot control at the moment. Until i get my crankenstein :) . But the crush looks ok. And my grain bill for my last brew was 3.5Kg JW pale malt, 400gm JW light munich and 200gm JW light crystal. I did not use any...

Sorry i cant seem to upload the pictures as theyre too large in size and i dont know how to reduce them, so I will have to describe it. I hope this helps. Its a 36 Litre cosmoplast "Keep cold" cylindrical cooler with stainless steel false bottom. I was going to mention who i bought it off...

Hi I had another stuck sparge. So that makes two from my first two AGers. Its becoming abit frustrating. If the brew that I put down yesturday comes out ok, then I can say that the ill effects arising from aeration of hot wort is not true, as I filtered a cup of mash through a strainer (All...

Yes it does ...... but why do you need to change it ? It is pretty much a constant - give or take a bit (due to grain variety, season, mositure content etc). I find that all the water/wort volumes come out spot on. Dave Dave I wanted to change it as i found when i was doing the mash that...

Just wondering if any beersmith users out there could tell me if the program takes into account absorption of the grain when mashing in. If so, how can I change it Thanks J

Damn.... I was hoping none of you were going to say " throw it out" I suddenly feel very sick. I have about 7Kg of crushed JW pale malt sitting in my cupboard. I think im still going to brew with it. It would be to wastfull to throw out. I have to invest in a grain crusher.