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*admin please delete if not allowed Hey Guys, I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the Aussie Home Brewers group on the facebook and how cluttered it gets with kit and kilo posts (not that I'm having a go at them by any means!!). Thought I'd start another Facebook group dedicated to...

Yeah, yeah, I know, don't fear the foam... However, while kegging up a brew this evening I've has a complete mind f**k and left a good 100 odd ml of starsan in the keg as I started filling it, and only realised it when I was almost done and too much foam started coming out the top... Is this...

Hey Guys, Been a while since I posted here!! I'm having a crack at brewing my first alcoholic ginger beer (have made a couple of non alcoholic ones) just using a brewers choice kit and a kilo of dex. I put it in almost 3 weeks ago, forgot about it and gave it my first check tonight. It looks...

Hey Guys, Just received another STC-1000 in the mail. My fridgey mate who wired up my other one lives in Toowoomba and won't be coming to visit for a while, so I was wondering if anybody on here in Brisbane (preferably north side, but i'm happy to travel a bit) might be able to do it for me...

Anybody heard the results of the Samford show comp? Thought judging was on the weekend just gone.

I normally use the DiSan Nappy version for cleaning, however I haven't seen it at any of my local Aldi's the last couple of weeks. Picked up a tub of the DiSan Plus (blue tub) instead. It seems to be unscented to my untrained nose, but just not too sure. Anybody use this particular version?

Well I can't find my original post on this topic (on my phone so couldn't really find it in my search) but had posted that I was going to pitch and Irish red on top of the previous Irish reds yeast cake. A lot of you said that it's not going to develop the same flavours etc as if I pitched...

I'm going to have a crack at a dunkel for a German themed party we're having in about a month. I know a hefeweizen would be best drunk fresh, but would this be the same for a dunkel? Or would it benefit a bit of aging in the keg? FYI it'll be force carbed.

Where the **** does one buy a home bar from? I've just built a beautiful patio out the back of my house and really want to put a bar in so I don't have to keep my keezer in the semi detached laundry anymore... All the Gumtree jobs are either really shit or too expensive. So my question is...

I had a delicious red wine beef casserole in the slow cooker all day for tonight's dinner and washed it down with one of the fine Dr S's golden ales. It worked alright with the meal but it got me thinking, what's your favourite brew to wash down such a deliciously rich casserole? A glass of...

Mine is about 11 Brews old I think and the last few Brews it's been getting hard to get all the old grain out. Generally I hose it off to get the bulk of the crap off after I empty it then soak it in a bucket of Disan for a week or whatever. But there's a few little bits here and there I...

So, Kegged a beer the other night, took my FG reading but must've been a bit drunk and forgot to record it! Force carbed it over the weekend. If I pull some out of the tap and wait til it warms up to 20c, will any residual carbonation in it affect the gravity reading? I guess overnight...

How much does hop trub from the bottom of the keggle affect the OG reading? Ie, I just filled a glass with the last bit of liquid from the bottom of the keggle which is full of hop shit. Should I use it to take my OG? Or just save a bit from the cube when I put it in the fermenter? No tap on...

Anybody know where to find/make tap locks for your standard perlick taps? I know Craftbrewer sells them but I don't really want to fork out 80 bucks each for them! We've just built a patio out the back and I'd like to move my keezer out there (build a bar etc) but I have questionable houso...

Anybody made anything special for St Paddy's Day? I left it a bit late but put together an Irish red ale on friday. Hopefully it'll be drinkable in time! 4.5kg Marris Otter .15kg CaraRed .1kg Melanoidin .1kg CaraAroma 50g Roast Barley 30g Styrian golding @45 Used us04 instead of an Irish...

I did up a school night brew last night but somehow managed to cock up and obviously didn't use enough water as I've only resulted in about 16-17L of wort, instead of the 22L I was aiming for! Quick overview: BIAB About 5.6kg various grain Mashed with 21L and dunk sparged with 10L. 75min boil...

Has anyone come across any decent brewing software like brewmate to use on an android phone/tablet? All the ones I've come across seem pretty shit.

Brewed a BIAB on sunday, my second Ag... Cubed it for a no chill and chucked it in the fermenter and pitched on Monday night. Checked if for the first time tonight and it seems to have got a bit of a crust looking layer on top. First time I've seen such a thing! The glad wrap wasn't...

I've started doing a quick keg filler tonight and was going to chuck it in the laundry tub with a towel wrapped around it any icy water to keep it cooling, as my fermentation fridge is full making good beer. One problem, my lid seals don't seem to fit properly in the lids anymore as I've only...

I know there's plenty of threads similar, but figured I'd still share my first AG experience today! Brewed a golden ale, along the lines of Smurto's, but with a few differences. I went with: 2.75kg Pilsener 1kg Wheat 500g Vienna 200g Caramalt 90 minute mash, no sparge. 20g Amarillo @ 60 15g...