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9 days in and I'd think the fermentation is pretty much close to done. I think the first 3 or 4 days may be the more critical phase for keeping your temperature in correct range for the yeast.

Is that specimen jar in the background? LOL

New tv show about a couple of guys from a Scottish brewery doing a boozy tour of the US: Brew Dogs TV.

Officeworks have 20L jerry cans on clearance sale for $15 each. I ordered a couple last week and had them delivered for free to my local Officeworks for pick up.

Don't know yet. I've made two batches so far, but haven't tasted either.

Schneider Weisse style with Wyeast 3068, instead of Safale WB-06 as used on previous brews.

Two girls one stein... I'd watch that.

Thanks. I am currently no chilling with 10L jerry cans and transferring to 30L fermenter to ferment. Hoping to do some mid strength 20L maxibiab no chill batches for Summer. If I can no chill and ferment these in 20L jerry cans side by side in my little fridge that would be a real time saver.

Cheers. If I have 20L of wort is it better to use a 20L cube or 25L cube for fermenting?

I'm interested in trying this idea. However, since the articles section is still broken... anyone got the original article they can pm me?

No markings to give any indication of being food grade. If anything, I think they would probably contain the extra BPA's from BPA free plastic bottles :P

A trip to BigW and 3 x 48L storage boxes later ($8 each)... somewhere to store the bags of grain:

Brewing a Fuller's London Porter clone this morning.

Made a quick apple cider today: 6 x 3L Coles Smart Buy Apple Juice 500g brown sugar 2 x 2.5ml tanin 4 x 2.5ml malic acid 500ml water Nottingham yeast Boiled the water with brown sugar, tanin, malic acid and added the lot to the fermenter filled with 18L apple juice. Yeast added to the brew...

Cheers to Syl for organizing :chug: It's going to take me a while to get through 75kg of grain with my 10L batch size... but at almost $2/kg I had to buy in :D

After a pint of North Coast's Old Rasputin Old Rasputin clone, I am sleepy :P

Masters hardware shops are now selling an excellent range of chilli seedlings.

Well, if it were me, I would add the 5 liters to my fermenter now... however, I am a cowboy brewer :O

Is he still going around? No doubt he'll be whining about something or other... what an annoying c#unt!

Welcome aboard, dude :)