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Hey Dudes, I'll be in Germany at the end of November for a mates wedding and was thinking of taking a train to Brussels and spending a day or two there doing a bit of beer tourism before heading back home. Anyone been there before? Anyone got friends there who also like beer and like showing...

Hey dudes, Im gonna brew somethign today.. thinking something resembling a NEIPA. Just looking for some hopping advice... when, what, how etc. I've got: Simcoe Galaxy Citra Motueka Cascade (home grown, whole cones) Willamette Hallertau Saaz brewing no-chill style thanks in advance!

Hey Dudes, Dunno if this is the right place to post this... Anyway, I fell short of my target gravity on a brew day recently and thought there'd be a simple way to work out how much DME to add to correct it. Lots of googling brought up a lot of discussion threads in various forums and articles...

Hey Beer Dudes, Last year I built myself a 3v HERMS rig (actually 4v) with PID controllers. Prior to that I was just using a 19l bev cooler as a mash tun with no circulation or tmep control and if I wanted to do step mashes, it had to be a boiling water infusion sitcho to hit step temps. My new...

What are peoples general opinions of Mangrove Jacks dry yeasts? For some reason I just have this completely unfounded opinion that they are in some way inferior to say white labs or wyeast or fermentis stuff.... The only one Ive tried was a hefe strain and tbh the beer wasnt that great, but Im...

Hey DuDes, I built a 4v HERMS rig last year and I've well and truly dialled it in and have it running like a charm. Now that its finished and I don't have anything to tinker with any more, I wanna try and find a way to tinker with it. My control panel is fairly simple and uses an Auber ramp/soak...

Hey so after dealing with this years harvest, ive got about a heaped tablespoon of pure lupulin. I wanna put it into a brew as a dry-hop addition. Has anyone done it before? Im sure they have, so i guess I actually should ask- was it good? Is a heaped tablespoon enough to use on its own and...

Hey dudes Just picked a crap load of hops and once dried and cured, I wanna try to form them into compact pellet/plug type things. Im sure this has been discussed before and a quick consultation of the google confirms this - but I specifically wanna hear from anyone who's tried it... Basically...

Hey dudes, Ive ramped up my cider making considerably this year and now that ive built my own scratter and press, im geeking out on it HARD BRO Anyway, wondering if anyone’s tried keeving before? How did it go? Did you use calcium chloride? Did you use the enzyme? All the things? Real keen to...

Hey dudes, Has anyone got tips on getting odours/flavours out of plastic gear? (ie. buckets and cubes) We've got a place nearby that makes sauces and the like and they palm off big food grade buckets and cubes really cheap - I think $3 for a 25lt cube from memory. Anyway, I need to acquire a few...

Afternoon All, Ive got this imperial porter in the fermenter and its destined for barrel aging. Ive never done it before and just wondering if its best to transfer from fermenter to barrel before or after fermentation is finished? Im just thinking that racking into the barrel while there's...

Hey all, Just picked up a batch of apple juice straight out of the press from a local orchard with the intention of doing a natural/wild ferment cider in a wooden barrel. I've used juice from this orchard and successfully made wild ferment ciders a few times now - but never this late in the...

Morning all, Im halfway through fermting an imperial porter and will be adding cacao nibs to the barrel post-ferment. Ive had the nibs soaking in rum for the last two weeks. Ive just started filtering the mixture and now have some freaking amazing rum-choc extract. Question is, should i throw...

Struggling with some simple brew math here. Ive tried googling and just cant seem to find a way to work this out. I want to add enough DME to 21 litres of 1.082 wort to bring it to 1.092 The only way I could think of was to mock up a recipe in brewers friend that gave me a 21 liter batch at...

Dudes, Im looking for tips on introducing rum n raisin flavours into a brew. How do? When do? How Much? When Much? etc etc to be more specific, im getting an ex-bourbon barrel and although my end-game plan for the barrel has nothing to do with beer, it seems a shame not to use it for some kind...

Hey all, I'm not big on water chemistry when it comes to brewing. In fact, I actually have no f*ing idea and so I filter my tap water and consider that whole issue "sorted". Anyway, without going too far into the whole thing, just wondering if there's a bit of a consensus regarding beer styles...

Hey dudes, Ive been wanting to upgrade my standard 3 ring gas burner for a while. I just want a bit more output - aenough to do a double (50-60lt) batch comfortably is what im aimjng for. Ive got a variable high pressure regulator, but you can only push a 3 ring burner so far..... Anyway, i saw...

I've got a batch of barrel aged golden sour thats about a year old now. For the last 3- months its been sitting on fruit and its about time I bottled the stuff. Am I gunna need to add yeast to the bottles to get it carbed up? If so, how much and how should I do it? Just add a bit of dry yeast...

Hey dudes, I just recently discovered that you can get auto siphons that have a smaller diameter tube. Does anyone know if you can get narrow diameter siphons that are also short? In other words, one thatll suit a 5L demijohn? I stupidly bought a short one for that purpose thinking that...