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Hiya, Thanks for the ideas, I went with... 150g choc grain steeped for 30 mins 20g fuggles steeped for 10 mins and an extra can of Morgans amber ale (1.5kg) Topped off to 23L it was 1048 @ 28C (stupid brisbane weather). I've got it under the house cooling down now. Here's hoping..... g

I'll take one for sure if they support KK brewers :). I keep all my records in hardcopy so I can carry it around from place to place. My plan is to document the KK experience in an ebook when I move to ag, hopefully my follies will assist another newbie to avoid a few of the pitfalls :).

Hiya, I got a can of coopers dark ale for christmas but I don't know quite what to do with it and a search of the forums turns up a lot of unrelated posts. Currently I only have the can and about 150g of carapils grain in the cupboard. I don't think that grain is any good for a dark ale so I...

My local HBS is putting on a series of ag demos and theres one on THIS weekend. Place: Enoggera, Brisbane When: Sunday the 5th November at 10AM http://brewerschoice.com.au/ for more details I'll be making an effort to get along and check it out, why not join me if you're new to the world of...

Yeah, Brewers Choice. It's my local HBS. Enoggera, THIS Sunday the 5th November at 10AM. http://brewerschoice.com.au/ I'm thinking seriously about attending, look for the guy who's hungover. Oh wait that won't help. ;)

Cheers. That sounds like good advice and i've been thinking on ways to get the temp down. I started planning well ahead about 2 brews ago, canvassing for ideas and making sure everything I needed was sanitised and ready to go. I try to have a definate style in mind and what ingredients I want...

Didn't turn out to bad at all. I think this brew was my unreal ale. Came out around 7%abv, sweet and well rounded but with little hoppsiness. After 2 months maturing it became quite a nice beer indeed. Even better was the DB Draught I made after this one in which I added hops for the first...

I went with Morgans Blue Mountain Lager 500g Brew Enhancer Pride of Ringwood finishing hops Mixed to 23L and threw the fermenter into half a clamshell of water with a towel around it. I have no other method of cooling atm and have my fingers crossed, ready for something horrific. It's...

As to the ABV, I'd be looking for between 3.5 and 4% I always make up 23L and I use a simple formula to work out a rough ABV, taking into consideration extras like DME etc. Cheers for the suggestions. I enjoy both Carlton Mid and Coopers Mild so these recipes sound fantastic. I wouldn't mind...

Hi, My last couple of beers have been pretty good but sweet and very strong. Mistakes aside, my biggest problem is the strength. A couple of longnecks and i'm ready for a lie down! I've had a bit of a look around the forums but nothing looked quite like what i'm after. I would like to make a...

I write scripts no-one reads and make the occasional short film or radio serial that few people watch/listen to. I used to play the drums as well but about 4 years ago I moved interstate and left them behind in storage... one day i'll ship em up. Ditto surfing. Having kids, buying a house etc...

Definately time for a beer. So long boys, we may never see your likes again but our lives are in some way richer because you shared yours. g

My second brew was a K&K recommended by the local brew shop and honest to god it's one of the worst things i've had the misfortune to drink. Along the way I did stuff like add 25l instead of 23l water, didn't seal it properly and I heated it up because I though the right temp was 24-25C not...

Great, thanks for the advice. I'll let you know how it turns out :).

To continue... It's warm and humid in Brisbane at the moment and my fermenter temp didn't get below 26C. Is it too late to put ice around it? I strapped one of those big freezer blocks on the outside this morning as I didn't have time to do anything else before going to work. Have I screwed it...

Ha. No, at the moment its just bleach diluted. I'm moving up to a no-rinse sanitizer before my next brew. Thanks for the help razz, as a newbie brewer no-nothing I appreciate it.

Cool. I already have one of them that I use for sterilising stuff ad hoc. So I just spray it up the tap after taking a reading? Do I need to rinse it?

Thats a question i've been meaning to ask. How do I sanitise my tap after taking gravity readings? Thanks for all the advice, I feel marginally more confident now. :) g

Well.. That didn't go too badly. The sugars seemed to clump up in the fermenter so I stirred it as much as possible but there was still the odd lump floating about. After filling I found the wort to be around 30C, which seems a little high. Previous attempts have been 26C at pitching. Should I...

Thanks for the suggestions. Steve, thats pretty much what I've been doing anyway so I shouldn't get it wrong. :) Adamt, I'd love to grab some grains but my local HB shop isn't open on a Sunday and I'm too impatient to wait until next weekend. I'm sort of combining both suggestions. The yeast...