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hey, thanks for the advice. much appreciated. PM me your address and i'll stick a tube of loveliness in the mail for you. no problem. cheers.

Thanks for the info, will definitely let you know how it goes. Unless I ruin it.

hello brewers, i'm stepping into the unknown with my first mixed culture wild fermentation. After a month in the primary, using a culture I picked up from Wildflower brewery in Marrickeville, I've now got got 20 litres of nicely soured ale which is ready for secondary fermentation. I'd like to...

hello cider heads, apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere, but how many grams of smoked wood chips should i be adding to a 20 litre batch of fermented apple juice prior to bottling. all the advice I've read around this has been a bit vague on detail. cheers! gaz

hello brewers, any suggestions for a couple of nights of decent supping in Canberra? cheers, gaz.

Hello brewers, would it make more sense to dry hop after crash chilling? That way the hop oils retain their aroma and are still volatile when bottled. If the hops go into the fermenter before chilling, they're in there for possible too long and the volatile oils are messed about with low temps...

Hey JD my starting point is an Irish ale style, and the EKG would definitely suit that. have you got a view on the hop schedule that would give lift the ale into the hoppy but balanced zone? cheers.

hello brewers, i'm looking for some hop inspiration to give a classic red ale recipe a bit of a tickle and produce a more pronounced but nicely balanced hoppiness. i've been really enjoying Nail Brewery's 'Hoppy Red Ale', and the Karl strauss 'Red Trolley Ale' and feel inspired to head down that...

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Nice work, matey. I found heaps of things to worry about when I first started. And almost every solution involved relaxing and letting the beer do its thing. Good luck with your next brew.

hi nathan, have you had a chance to try out the controller and does it work? cheers, gaz

Hey matey, I had a good result using the Mangrove Jack Roasted Stout pouch made up to a 21 litre brew with 1kg Light malt extract and 250g maltodextrin. A nice beer with assertive favours and a smooth finish.

. A brew bucket will fit if you cut out the door shelves with a hacksaw. Seal up the 'wounds' with waterproof tape and you're ready to go.

you can give this a try. It's my go to recipe Golden Ale Coopers pale ale kit 1.7kg Dry light malt extract 1kg Wheat malt extract 0.4kg Maltodextrin 0.150kg Light crystal malt 200g steeped for 20 mins in 4 litres of water. Add steeped water to boiling pot and add tap water to make up to 10...

That, my friend, is the sweet smell of progress.

I've been sniffing around the bottle shops here in the inner west of Sydney, but no luck in sourcing a commercial or craft hopped cider. I still have a niggling feeling that if hops and cider were were a natural fit, then we'd see more of it. But it'd be definitely interesting to checkout...

hello I get the sense that our American fiends will hop the bejesus out of anything vaguely resembling an alcoholic beverage, including cider. Has anyone got a view about whether dry hopping a cider is an interesting thing to do....or just daft? cheers, gaz

Thanks for chipping in, gentlemen. The beer turned out exactly like it said on the packet - a roasted stout. I ended up infused the cacao nips for a week in vodka and added that 7 days before bottling. It's added a very mild chocolate note, but nothing like what I was after. I've since moved...

Brilliant. Thanks for the feedback everyone. Wheat it is. Gaz

hi there i'm putting together a Brooklyn Brown Ale clone and the recipe calls for 2.8kg of light DME. I've got 3kg of Light LME in the shed but using a conversion factor of X 1.2, i'm still short of around 300g of extract. The recipe also has wheat malt extract (226g), which i have a decent...