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Hi all, Despite the handle, I am actually living in ol blighty. Tomorrow a bunch of us are going to the Reading Beer Festival. http://www.readingbeerfestival.org.uk/ I'll take some photos and show my fellow Aussies what they're missing out on. P.S. Ross -> It's almost time for the Great...

Well technically it's not exactly a fridge. It is a fermentation chiller modelled exactly on these plans: http://home.elp.rr.com/brewbeer/chiller/chiller.PDF Photo attached. Temperature is controlled using the black box of electronics on top and taping the temperature sensor inside the chiller...

Hi all, Just wondering who goes to the trouble of skimming off the scum that rises to the top of the kettle at the start of the boil. Cooks always do this when they make stock as all the impurities float to the top as a foamy scum. Who skims? Geoff.

Hi All, Just posting pictures of my new fridge conversion. 4 beers on tap. 4 kegs squeeze inside a compact fridge with a few modifications with the jigsaw. Geoff.

As the water levels in the dams get lower and lower and the quality of our water varies one week from another, it makes me think that I need to stabilise this aspect of my brewing. I work hard to stabilise my process and use high quality hops, yeast and malt etc but usually little thought goes...

I've just done an APA with 30IBU of hops. Cascade and Simcoe for bittering and Cascade and Saaz at flame out for Aroma. I steep for 20minutes and agitate the hops in the hop sack after the flame out. My problem is my beer has a sharp hop taste. Not unpleasant but certainly not integrated like...

Hi guys, I've just had a disappointing ferment :angry: with my AG Newcastle Brown Ale clone. I need to get into yeast starters and was wondering where others had acquired their lab flasks (Erlenmeyer) from? Geoff.