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Thought I'd kick this discussion off as it's interested me from the start when I got into all grain brewing several years ago after 28 years of brewing beers . As some prob know, I've pushed the limits of my 2 grainfathers to max capacity, and the beers are sensational according to my piss head...

Happy Australia Day guys.. I'm having a few lagers today, I brewed up a few weeks ago a cube of Little creatures type pale ale clone. It's been done before here and turned out good with US o5. Having day off thinking of pitching it with 005 English ale as it's all I got in my fridge except for...

As the title says, Anyone use one? What do you think of it, quality? Does it help with boil etc? Are they easy to put on and remove for cleaning etc? I was thinking of getting one for winter use especially. Cheers

With the advent of all these small electric brew units, brewmeister, grain father,Robo brew etc plus the many excellent home made jobbies out there, over night mashing although not new by any means seems to me to be an excellent way for us time poor brewers to save some time, get some...

In the quest to improve my beers, I've started doing my lagers in a keg king kegmenter which gives me near 100% sealed pressure ferment system! which I then transfer under pressure through my purged filter and into my purged kegs. Now, this gives me a minimal risk of oxidation, I've never had...

Hey guys, I just bought a flooded font of Batz and really happy with it. I forgot when he told me about the piping. I'm mounting and plumbing it up to my keezer today, there are 2 copper pipes out the bottom, one is longer than the other. Which is the inlet and which is the outlet for the...

Hi had the pleasure of somehow getting a day off work and shooting up to meet Batz at the Bonsai brew house in Pomona Sunshine Coast hinterland today to pick up my new, well new to me 5 tap arndale font Batz had kindly sold me. We had a few brews and spoke with Matt at his awesome little brew...

I've been brewing for 25 years, all grain for 3 years, temp control last 2 years, yeast starters last year Now lots turned out great, but O2 injection has made a really nice leap in quality, so thanks to thus forum for steering a path to heaven. Just polished off some nice Irish red last month...

Question for the more experienced lager brewers. I've done a few lagers past couple of years and most have turned out ok to excellent. I usually did the warmish pitch at around 20, then set my controller to 12 which would pull the pitched wort down to 12 in about 12 hrs. These then took off, I...

This is something I've just come up with today. Just looking for an nice crisp, floral in your face IPA that gets the head spinning. I've just trying to use up what grain and hops I've left here till next bulk buy ups. Don't really want to buy anything. Looking at brewing tommoz. Got a little...

Hey guys, Just a word of advice Ive discovered along my way to make a portable co2 set up. Not all the 16 grm Co2 bulbs on the market are the same. I recently bought a Leland type mini co2 reg from an ebay supplier. This reg came through and seems good quality but I can't compare to the...

Hi guys , Doing some nice pale ales such as smurtos etc and use the US05 yeast which is great and nice and neutral. I want to get into something diff that will let a little more malty flavours through but still be easy to use. I do all grain and have temp control fermentation so no issues...

Ok guys , New to allgrain this year ,and turning out some excellent drops via a Grainfather . Question: From what I read here, with all other things been equal, ie ingredients , ferment temps etc ,if I do a particular receipe , say for simplicity , dr smurto golden ale , which I've done a few...

Made the natural progression upto all grain this year and loving it. I've had luck in the past reculturing coopers yeast etc from shaking starters, but want to invest now in a stir plate. My kids want to buy me one for Father's Day. Any recommendations of ones you guys use and like or dislike...

Hi, I new to all grain, and have downloaded this from the net. I have a good understanding on using this, but when I go to add grain, it only has us or uk grains. Where do I find australian grains on this software or have I downloaded the wrong one? Cheers

Hi first post after reading through this forum for awhile. Been brewing for a lot of years kits/kilo and few extract receipes and partial 1kg stove top mashes including my favourite bitter ale extract brew which is always on tap at my place for the many mates that drop in.Which annoys SWMBO...