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    How much beer have you brewed this year

    8 different beers at 12 litres each, so 96 litres for me. Might sneak another one or two ferments in for November then that's it until Autumn next year.
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    Bentspoke brewery Canberra

    That Tour de Brune is a good beer. Trying to clone it at the moment.
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    Low dissolved oxygen brewing techniques

    Great thread. Lots to think about, especially as my four favourite styles are Helles, Kolsch, Pils and Alt. Interesting to think what a full-volume BIAB version of the article's suggested process would look like.
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    Low effort bottle sanitation technique

    I run a fairly simple process for bottle cleaning. Triple rinse after use, dry by draining upside down on rack or bottle tree. When dry, they go into plastic crates. At bottling, I use a sanitising solution and put this through each bottle on their way back from crate to the bottle tree, wait 20...
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    Hop Dealz Australia

    The code worked for me. Just ordered a bag of Hallertau Mittlefruh and no problems.
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    POLL: Do you keg?

    Only bottles for me. Find it easier for handling the large number of tiny batch beers I make, and keeping the drinking sensible. Don't mind bottling really. Almost as meditative as cleaning.
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    Rye Malts - Who's Playing With Them Lately?

    One of the advantages of BIAB is how well it handles rye, I think. Next brew here is a Dark Ale, hopped with small amounts of Super Pride at 60 & Galaxy at the end, with 30% rye, 30% Golden Promise, 30% Vienna, 6% Carafa II, 4% Carabohemian. Never tried Rye in a Dark like this before.
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    Rye Malts - Who's Playing With Them Lately?

    Fermenting out an ale now to highlight Northern Brewer, with rye & some amber in the mix. Smells very good indeed. I use rye a lot - sometimes for spice, sometimes for pushing up mouthfeel. Useful thing. A little bit in an Alt or Golden Ale goes all right.
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    All Munich dunkel - anyone got advice they wanna share?

    Have done a couple of different 100% Munich II beers and they can work quite well, in both malt-forward styles and something with more overt hop and yeast character.
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    Has anyone ever used Thai Palm Sugar?

    I have made a Pale Ale with palm sugar (jaggery), based on an idea from one of Randy Mosher's books. Lovely beer, and very good with chilli, fish sauce and similar Vietnamese/Thai ingredients. Likes turmeric too. It took quite a while of bottle-conditioning for some of the stranger palm sugar...
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    What are you Brewing 2016?

    Northern Brewer Ale. 50% Best Malz Vienna, 50% Simpson's Golden Promise. US-grown Northern Brewer (7.8) to 40 IBU, split evenly between 60, 10 & 0 minute additions. BRY-97.
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    Roasted Wattle Seed Ale

    Been thinking about adding roasted Wattleseed to an Alt recipe, but this thread has me thinking about a Wheat beer base, which had never occurred to me. Great to read Vic Cherikoff posting in a thread too.
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    SMaSH with EKG or Fuggles... Grain suggestions?

    Made a tasty SMaSH beer last year with Marris Otter and Tettnang for hops. MoTet. I quite like using English malts & German hops together.
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    Make me an Ale!

    Go 100% of Vienna malt, use a neutral yeast, ferment cool, Mosaic at 60/10/0 to hit 35 IBU. Will show clean & clear malt & hop character.
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    Grain Of The Week - Rye

    I mostly brew in winter - enough for the year. Summer & early Autumn usually taken up with vintage (wine stuff). Might do a few brews in early Spring, but winter is the brewing season.
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    Grain Of The Week - Rye

    Interested in using up left over malts before the brewing season kicks off proper, so am having a go at a 40% malted rye, 40% dark malted wheat, 20% amber malt. First wort hopped with Galaxy, Galaxy again at flameout. Keen to see how the rye and the amber play together (or don't).
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    Switching back to bottling from kegs

    I try and keep my brewing to the cold months. I have a silly number of small fermenters (10 litre max, 15 litre max). What I try and do is make lots of small batches of different beers (stovetop BIAB) but then combine bottlings. I get a production line ready of finished beers, work out a...
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    Keeping your sack clean

    Empty to the chooks or compost, turn it inside out, quick rinse, then chuck in the washing machine. Works fine. Have only had one incident with a mouldy sack from being slack, and there's no going back once it's turned on you.
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    Small batch BIAB questions

    You might find it useful to take a bit of time to read one or two basic books on brewing before diving in to your next brews. Get a handle on the basic concepts and processes, the language used, and then apply it, look at how things went and figure out how to improve for next time. A decent book...
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    Australian native honey brewing

    Apparently native stingless bee expert Dr Tim Heard has a book coming out early next year on these critters and the honey. Fascinating older piece from 2001 here: http://www.sugarbag.net/resources/Stingless.bees.Ecos.2001.pdf I didn't realise there were so many different stingless bee species...
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