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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...

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...

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

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...

Hi guys, i did my first extract brew 4 days ago based on the Cooper's chubby cherub recipe. i also added a mini mash of carapils (40 mins). the wort is fermenting happily but there's a noticeable greenish tinge with a grassy taste coming through. any suggestions as to what's going on, and...

Hello, I'm heading down to Melbourne for a week and was wondering if anyone had any tips on a decent place to drink good beer. Thanks for your tips.

hi all i've just picked up a 25 litre container from Bunnings so that i can infuse a stout wort with cocoa nibs for 10 days or so. i've got 20 lires of stout wort and I plan to use cling film on the container opening. my question is: will the remaining 5 litres of space above the wort in...

hi all Having just discovered the all consuming passion of brewing me own beer, i'm trying to learn the ropes by romping my way through various styles using kits and kilos. The AHB forum is really useful in terms of helping me get my head around the theory and practice and i was wondering if I...

hello there after 3 weeks in the bottle with a mangrove jack's craft cider kit, i've got a brew with minimal carbonation and a lack lustre taste. Initial fermentation was a bit sluggish but after adding more yeast, i had 4 days of decent bubbling. total of 11 days in the keg. after bottling...