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Just thought I'd throw this post up as it might let some people rest easier after throwing a sachet into their fv and hoping they shouldn't have rehydrated instead. After reading so much over the years on the fierce battle between the old rehydration vs no rehydration camps and after reading...

Hi guys, I'm looking for a few good websites of a blog type nature or just some with good brewing articles in them. I enjoy sitting down with a coffee over a few easy to digest articles but I'm running out, any suggestions? So far I read these: - For a while I've found the mad...

So after at least a year of reading scared and confused off flavour threads of little helpful information I have to cave and create one of my own. I cannot work out whether what I'm tasting is a function of the recipe or if it is an off flavour. This is the second time I've gotten it and I'll...

The topic title speaks for itself, I bought some 2011 galaxy because it was $5 and I didnt notice the year on the label (good one) but I'm curious to know how rubbish they'll be. Its in its original vacuum sealed package and has been in the chest freezer since I bought it. The problem with it...

Hi guys I want to buy a book that can serve as a bit of a bible when it comes to quickly referencing something I'm either interested in or unsure on. With the exception of 'How to Brew' which is fantastic, what book would you purchase if you could pick only one? I'm interested to see what has...

Hi guys I know the wiring for an stc has been done to death and the many diagrams seem easy enough. My questions dont so much relate to the how part of wiring it up but the whys. I hate just doing things without a sound understanding of how things work whether thats wiring, brewing, pulling cars...

Hi guys I'm looking at a bar fridge for a ferm chamber and would love if someone could tell me whether it's possible and how easy it would be to remove the freezer section from this fridge? I need the height! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Hi Guys so I'm jsut a little curious as to why this is but my yeast slurry I store in the fridge before I pitch into a starter smells a bit like the green apple sort of Acetylaldehyde off flavour but I recognise it more as the smell of champagne. I should point out that my yeast is taken from a...

I think I mentioned in another topic somewhere that I was having trouble with losses due to really lousy whirlpools and I'm still having problems. My set up is very basic and so are my methods so I'm basically looking for some simple suggestions to help reduce my losses. At the moment I am...

Hi guys I pitched the yeast on an Alt on sunday and am interested in whether people have had particularly good results with a specific fermentation schedule as I haven't quite decided what I want to do with it yet. The recipe is just almost all Munich with some crystal 60L and the yeast used is...

Thought I'd post up a thread here showing a few results of a test I did with my new grimwood 2400W element, and when I say new I mean olllld but I scored it for 99c on Ebay which I'm quite pleased about as I was looking for a solution to a few issues I have been having using just gas for my...

I've searched everywhere trying to find some small glasses to split a bottle with mates for the sake of tasting a few different beers and have not been able to find any that arent in America or for a reasonable price just wondering if anyone knows of somewhere that'll sell 6 or so for a...

Hi Guys so after 1 year of brewing I decided I just couldn't resist the urge to buy at least a small keg set-up. My justification/excuse was to have beer on tap at my girlfriends 21st. I have since purchased a small set-up from cheeky peak (and would highly reccommend dealing with them really...

Hi guys I've brewed a batch of pacific ale clone and have an issue post bottling. This recipe has been cursed for months, first time a grain order went wrong and then this time old hops, yeast and a poor starter seem to be teaching me lessons. Basically the beer is great on the front end but...

Hi guys, The title says most of it just wondering if anyone has a good ballpark figure for how much your FG may change from your expected FG purely from a high mash temperature. I have done a bit of reading and I understand that there are several factors at play here such as grain bill, yeast...

Hey guys I bottled my first porter yesterday and the whole process seemed to go fine. For the sake of knowing my process I got the fermenter out of the fridge where it was cold crashing, had everything sanatised blah blah dissolved my priming sugar in probably 100mL of boiling water in a mug...

Im brewing a Brown Porter (my first attempt at the style) on Sunday and it has just dawned on me that I cant get the yeast strain I wanted in a days time (bad planning on my part) I have had a good search on all three yeast strains in the topic heading and it seems that if I search any US forum...

Okay so before I get told to do a search I have and I know it's a well talked subject but the answers I get Site to Site are way too varied and you lot are a wise bunch so I'll ask anyway. For almost a year I've been storing hops in their original bag with one of those clip things and then in a...

Okay so I need some help... I've cocked up. Wanted to do a Pacific Ale Clone with 1.1kg Ale Malt and 0.75kg Wheat Malt for a 10L batch, thats fine. Whats not fine is that I also ordered some carafa II not expecting it to get milled and put in the same freaking bag. It wasn't a little bit either...

Hey guys so I haven't brewed a porter yet but would love to try and so I did some reading and research and have got a really drafty recipe together and would like some advice. Firstly the type of porter I'm going for is something where the coffee and chocolate notes shine through, slight roast...