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Hey there Brew-brothers, I have a crown urn, nearly two years old, purchased from my fav AHB sponsor brewshop with the cutoff switch already disconnected. It's worked fine for the last 24 months, reaching a roiling boil regularly but tonight when trying to heat water in prep for tomorrow's...

Just mucking about today with a quick experimental small-batch brew... Now that the temperature in Brisbane is consistently below 20'c I figure it's a good time to muck about with some small batch brewing at ambient temps (outside of the brewfridge). I decided to go with this recipe as all the...

Hi guys, So I put a lovely little Yeast starter on the go yesterday in prep for brewing on the weekend, 100ml of wort with a 1/4 of a wyeast pack in it to kick off. Then I got out of bed this morning and my first thought was 'Better step up that starter...' No breakfast or coffee yet, I...

Hi guys, I have a simple DIY immersion chiller of a pretty common design, see below. Easy and relatively cheap to make but not always as reliable as we would like... We've all seen them and a lot of us know that they can spring a leak quite expectantly. With the simple design of some garden...

Hey Brewheads, Well I have a Hefe in the fridge sitting on Wyeast 3333: German Wheat and it's stalled out on me at an SG of 1.020. I tried to underpitch a bit to bring out the banana esters, mayhaps I underpitched too much? Now I'm uncertain what to do. I've uppered the temp to 19'c and given...

No-one has put up a Magnum hop description yet which I find a little surprising as it is (in my opinion) a widely used hop. Maybe it's because Magnum is almost solely used as a clean (flavourless?) bittering hop. However I feel it has it's place here if only for the sake of informing newer...

Hey Brewheads, Well it seems that the Coopers DIY Beer section is taking another hit in the Aussie market with their products being dropped by Coles, This, only a few months after Kmart dropped them too - the poor b'stards. It looks like selected Woolworths and Big W are going to be the only...

Hey Brewheads, Desperate times call for desperate measures. SWMBO needs my brewfridge empty by this weekend in preperation for xmas; it's going to be a regular fridge for the duration of the silly season. So now I have a decision to make; the two fermenters in there should finished fermenting...

Hi Brewheads, As the weather warms and I work my way further along the local bottle-o's 'Craft Beer' shelves I find myself currently drinking Hefes, Wits and weissbiers - and enjoying it! So I tells myself 'Meno, it's time to brew your own.' and I start perusing different yeast strains. Here I...

Hi Brewheads, So I've made a yeast start for my recultured Wyeast 1318 London III. I didn't measure the specific gravity of the wort but I added 350g of liquid malt extract to 2lts of water so I expected an OG a little over 1.050. Anyway the 2lts of wort has been sitting in a 3lt erlenmeyer...

Hey Brewheads. It's my first shot at an ESB and I just wanted to run my recipe by some more seasoned heads. It is as follows; Kiwi ESB - mini-mash recipe. 25lt Batch Est OG: 1.052 Est FG: 1.013 Est IBU: 35.5 Est ABV: 5.1% Est ECB: 16.8 1.2kg of Maris Otter Malt 0.5kg of Flaked Wheat 0.3kg of...

It's been a busy brew week; what with bottling two batches, cleaning/sanitizing all my gear and getting the next two brews on over the last couple of days. So basically I've been up to my elbows in napisan and a new phosphoric acid sanitizer for a few days and I've noticed something...

Hi Guys, I was awoken at 11pm the other night by a crashing sound under my house. It turns out the plywood shelving I was using in the brewfridge had finally given up the ghost, bowing under the weight of the top-most FV and dropping. The top fermenter had crashed down onto the lid of the...

Heya Brewheads, So I've just come out of surgery and can't do any heavy lifting for a few weeks, this has put a crimp in my brewing. Fortunately I put down two brews a day before the surgery and the fermenters can sit in my brew fridge for the next 6 weeks until I'm able to lift them out again...

Put down the tar and feathers folks, it's not as illicit or loopy as it sounds... I was in hospital for some elective surgery on Tuesday and was still pretty doped up when they rolled me back into the ward that evening for overnight observation. The kind folks gave me a couple of Endone to...

Hey Brewheads, So I gave my first AG a shot today using Raja's 2 pot stovetop methods with Lauter. I thought I'd give the ever popular Dr S's Golden Ale a shot. After a lot of reading, worrying and some sleepless nights I finally got a process down and tried it today. It took me a lot longer...

Hi Guys, I've been brewing for a little over a year now; starting with the standard tasteless Kit and Kilo and progressing with many mistakes, hours of reading and much help from people on this forum through to kits and bits, then extract brewing and then finally to my first partial/mini mash...

Oh my head... I was out with friends at the Mana Bar in the Valley last night exorcizing my inner geek when I noticed that they had changed the beer on their one and only tap. There she was ...and her name was Millennium Falcon. With a ABV of 10% and 100 IBUs I was scared, after-all how could...

Hey Brewheads, I was ordering some gear off of Craft brewer and browsing their hops when I saw that they had a clearance special on some old glacier hops. They're dirt cheap but then again... they are about 6 years old. Question; what effect does age have on hops? I understand that the alpha...

Hi guys, A friend of mine has just bought himself a fermenter and has asked advice on home brewing. I'm going to walk him through his first brew and I want it to be both easy and tasty (to show him how easy brewing decent beer can be). He likes pale ales but doesn't have any temp control yet...