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I thought this might be of interest. Hopefully I'm posting in the right place. Chris Badenoch (Josie Bones, Masterchef, ANHC 2010 & 2012) has started a Beer & Barbeque event called "BeerBQ" with educational demonstrations on a variety of smoking techniques as well as matching beer with...

The restaurant at which I work has been having trouble with one of our fridges so we have replaced it, but would love to see it go to a good home, preferably in aid of making beer. We have had fridge mechanics working on it for the last few weeks but have given up as we need something more...

Let's give the one-post tasting thread a shot! Quote the most recent post, add in your tasting notes, delete the quotations (so the next guy can quote/reply) and add/update any info/labelling advice about your own beer. Delete your old posts and save the jibber jabber for another thread...

I am brewing a Biere de Garde on the weekend with 20% toasted flaked quinoa & 5% (hopefully) puffed red quinoa. Puffed quinoa is really quite expensive ($70/kg) so I'm going to have a crack at puffing some myself using a Coretta-style coffee roasting setup (hot air gun, bread machine, temp...

So I guess this is a somewhat self indulgent thread/poll, but it is a question that has been put to me many times in the last 12 months while studying brewing and entering into the professional brewing world and seems to be one that splits the crowd so thought it would be nice to hear some...

Congratulations to all West Coast Brewers that accepted the "Iron Man of The Brewing" challenge, and I hope you were all able to craft something unique and tasty from the simple fresh base wort with which we were all provided courtesy of Feral Brewing Company. Judging will be held at 7:30 at...

Results from this year's PRBS can be found here: http://www.perthroyalshow.com.au/beershow/ Four of the five amateur trophy's were won by West Coast Brewers! Now we just need to recruit Paul Marcos... THE T.W.O.C. TROPHY FOR BEST LAGER Trophy sponsored by T.W.O.C. Won By: Asher Mitchell...

I've been trying to find out what exactly it is that accumulates on top of the wort at the beginning of the boil - you know the stuff, it forms a cap trapping heat and causing boilovers. A lot of American homebrew forums refer to this as the hot break, but I think they are somewhat confused, as...

For those attending, or following, the inaugural National Homebrewer's Conference, you probably now know that Fosters have brewed a couple of commemorative beers - an Oktoberfest available for the duration of the conference, and a Barleywine reserved for "conference delegates". Now the question...

While I've put out a couple of sour beers in the few years I've been home brewing, I've never had any "resident microbes", or unitentionally infected batches. I've even used the same fermenters and hoses, just being sure to clean them profusely before using them again (though extended aging i've...

I am soon to be the proud owner of the four single strain wild bugs currently on offer from Wyeast including brettanomyces bruxellensis, brettanomyces lambicus, lactobacillus and pediococcus, as well as the mixed cultures lambic and roeselare, all courtesy of Grain and Grape (well except for the...

When the subject of homebrewing came up with a coworker, he asked me if I knew where he could find some moderately sized glass jars for a drink that he makes, which I was previously unaware of, called Kombucha Tea. I've done a little reading on it (wikipedia -...

Generally speaking I'm the kind of brewer that can never decide on which malts to use in a particular style of beer (they're all so good!), so end up using a large number of different malts/types, and can never really tell where certain flavours come from, so find it hard to improve recipes. So...

So I've heard rumour of a new imperial IPA from Feral (swan valley, western australia) clocking in at 10% alcohol and 100+IBU, which is quite a lot bigger than the last IIPA I tried from them (which was at Beertopia, VIC 2006). Has anyone heard of/tried this brew yet? The one they had at...

I recently tasted a brew brought back from New Zealand from the Mac's brewery called "Sassy Red", a Hoppy Best Bitter, and upon recieving some Nelson Sauvin flowers from a friend today, decided to try something similar. Just found these very helpful notes on their website: Malt Grist: Pilsner...

Among Wyeast's "very special strains" releases is 4366 "Distillers M-Strain", and upon seeing a few lonely packs in my hbs I thought it was an excellent opportunity to brew something imperial rather than see them go into retirement (approx 4 months old). Wyeast says: "Available for the Months...

So I've been tinkering for a while now on some ideas for a creamy, nutty interpretation of an American Brown Ale, and I've finally succumb to ahb for some feedback/advice before judgement (brew) day. Here's the bill I'm looking at so far: 45% Maris Otter 25% Light Munich 7.5% Brown 7.5% Dark...

I hope I'm not covering old ground here, I haven't found sufficient info through forum searches, so forgive me if the answers are tucked away beyond my reach. I'm looking for a 36L (or similar) cylindrical cooler (like the gatorade one (38L, $154 + $11 postage), or the cosmoplast brand sold...