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G'day fellow brewers, So I had one of those brewdays, where I just wasn't paying attention like I normally would. My 2nd mash temp became my first, and I overshot my planned temps... I think this might the cause for my troubles... Stuck ferment, from 1.049 to 1.023, steady for 5 days now...

Hi all, My strive to push my skills further in this great hobby of ours has led me to want to give Turbid mashing a go. After reading about it in my "American Sour Beer" book, I felt like i had a pretty good grasp of the techinque. I even read through the Jim Liddil page on the subject...

G'day fellow brewers, Starting off by saying, I've already laid the flame suit out on the bed, ready to put on in a hurry :D I have been brewing for a fair while now, and I do love the product that I'm capable of producing. To the point that I possibly consume more than a healthy amount of it...

Hey fellow brewers, I read an article on HBT a while back, about not wasting the beer you've essentially made with your starter... So I decided to take heed of that with my last brew, and poured 1L of beer to the side in a glass jar and swirled up the yeast and put it into my wort, as we would...

Hey guys, Curious what you think about the above? My water isn't much lower in temp than high 20's and to get the wort to that temp, I'd have to let it chill for hours I'm sure... I am in the process of making an ice bath recirculation type thing... Cheers Martin

Hey fellow brewers, Some of you might also have seen that there's a TV show out on Foxtel called Dark Horse Nation with a bunch of bearded guys who love nothing more than brewing beer in their micro brewery in Michigan. This prompted me to look up a clone to make up the next order from NHB. I...

Hey guys, I've got a bunch of glass bottles that I've gathered over the past year or so. All are 330ml - 375ml and none are screwtops. I've bought 6 cartons of PET bottles and these glass bottles are just taking up space now. Free to good home, pickup is Golden Beach. Recycling collection is...

Hey guys, I've wanted to do one of these for a while, but with all the other styles I've wanted to do, the wish list keeps getting longer and longer :) LOL Finally it has come time to plan the brew out for it, and I had a read on a couple of forums and a chat to HBHB over the phone. He added a...

Hey guys, I brewed up a 1.070 wort and pitched the yeast 46 hours ago. I decided that I should use 2 sachets of Lallemand Nottingham Ale yeast. Let me just say, that's way too much for my 22 litre batch, and I'm now having to take measures to contain it LOL Gravity has gone from 1.070 to 1.036...

Hey guys, I'm wondering if some of you fine gentlemen could please share some of your experience. I've been brewing a fair few hoppy IPAs, and none seem to last very long due to me drinking them :D Now that I've moved to a larger brewery, I don't intend on drinking them all, and perhaps storing...

Hey guys, I've been wanting to upgrade my 3V setup for a while now. Up until now, I've been using a Big W pot for my HLT & Kettle along with a 20L Water cooler from Bunnings. The setup makes great beer, but just not quite enough of it :D As I'm newly a father as well, time seems to be limited...

Hey guys, As the title suggests, could someone knowledgeable let me know if I need to make any changes to the water I brew my beer with? I understand that there are different profiles recommended for different styles of beer. As I generally brew IPAs, that'd probably be a good starting point...

Hey guys, I've been thinking about this for a little while, and reading another topic on immersion chilling not chilling to pitch temp unless using large amounts of cold water and/or ice cooled water I was thinking about combing the two methods? I know that cooling to 40-50C is quite quick...

Hey guys, As I was brewing today, I got a few moments to reflect on different ideas of brewing picked up over the past little while on here. One of my tests has been chilling the wort vs no chill, and with that came some observations and thoughts that I thought I'd get your opinion on. I...

Hey guys, I read through this tutorial: http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/55617-step-by-step-biab-lcba-clone/ In it, the OP uses about 4KG of grain, steeped 14L of water, plus 4L for the sparge. At the end he adjusts the OG to his desired OG by adding a bit of water. I'm new to BIAB, and...

Hey fellow brewers :) I've been brewing a couple of kit brews, but haven't really gotten into the flavour of the beer too much. I think it was largely dependent on my fermentation temperatures not being kept at the right level (e.g. approximately 24C!!) So I sorted a thermostat controlled brew...

Hey guys, I'm new to brewing, but like super hoppy beers... I've got a missus with great green fingers, and would like to utilize her to grow me some hops ;) The questions I've got is first and foremost, what rhizomes grow best in QLD? I'm on the Sunshine Coast, so SEQ... The next question...