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  1. kaiserben

    2x stainless fermenters, a 23L kegt, Mash paddle and ferment fridge. Sydney/Eastlakes.

    I have some stuff that I no longer have room for (down-sizing at the decree of SWMBO). I'm located at Eastlakes in Sydney. I have 2 of the Mangrove Jacks craft series stainless steel fermenters (like this LINK). Will be selling both without the taps or air locks. Will sell at $75 for each (or...
  2. kaiserben

    FS - SS Brewbucket Stainless Fermenter - 7gal

    I bought this 6 months ago: And now I'm looking to sell at the same price of $200. No problems with it; I just need to fund some kegging equipment. I'm in Sydney at Eastlakes.
  3. kaiserben

    23L keg usefulness

    I jumped at the chance to buy a 2nd-hand 23L keg on the weekend. (I'm not sure why this has been uploaded sideways ...) I'm wondering how best to use it and I'm interested in what other people do with them. Should I increase my batch size so that I can fill it for serving? Should I...
  4. kaiserben

    False bottom for 19L Big W pot

    Does anyone have a nice, easy solution for something to use as a false bottom for a Big W 19L pot (diameter is 31cm). I've searched on this forum to no avail, and also googled searched for things like "cooling rack" etc etc. The best thing I could find was a 30cm chrome-plated cooling rack...
  5. kaiserben

    Sour advice

    I'm hoping for some advice about whether I should top up my 23L glass carboy with some fresh wort or fermented beer? (see photo showing how full the carboy currently is) I had fermented out my batch with plain sacch yeast. Then, on Saturday, I racked this on to cherries and pitched some...
  6. kaiserben

    Head retention trouble shooting

    I've been getting underwhelming head retention in beers I've crash chilled. I bulk prime and bottle the beer while still cold. It's not such an issue for American Pale Ales & IPAs because the hops help with foam stability, but it is a big problem with my lagers (which also sit chilled in the...
  7. kaiserben

    Using phosphoric to acidify sparge water

    I bought some "pure" phosphoric acid (which is actually 96% phosphoric & 4% filtered water) because I wanted to try acidifying my sparge water. For 15L of sparge water (which is what I'd normally have) I'd need about 0.5ml of that 96% phosphoric. Because 0.5ml is such a small amount and it'd...
  8. kaiserben

    Relocating kegs

    I'm a keg virgin, but about to break that cherry this weekend. I've got a potential problem (well I dunno if it's a problem or not), I want to keg a crash-chilled kolsch on Saturday. But I can't get that filled keg back into a fridge until the following day (it'll get driven around Sydney...
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    Final Gravity

    I had some distractions and complacency crept in, which saw me bottle a batch without remembering to measure final gravity. How do I figure out what the gravity would have been before I bulk primed? I bulk primed with 130g white sugar into 21L of beer. Gravity measured AFTER bulk priming is...
  10. kaiserben

    Bottled beer lacks carbonation

    I made a Belgian Blond Ale and bottle conditioned it. But after 8 weeks the resulting beer lacks proper carbonation (I'm gonna estimate it's at about 2 volumes CO2. Head forms, but disappears and there are no visible bubbles after that). Is there any way of now, after the fact, adding some...
  11. kaiserben

    Wyeast 3725 - Biere de Garde

    Any experience with this strain? I smacked a pack last night and will start building a starter tonight. The plan is to make a Biere de Garde. Will ferment warm (at ambient, 26C) for ~4 weeks. Crash chill. Bottle. Carbonate. Lager for 1-3 months.
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    Bottles for Belgian beer

    Are the Leffe Blonde bottles we can buy at Dan Murphy's (currently $70/case delivery only) proper thickness/strength for highly carbed Belgian beer? I'd assume they are, but wanting to be absolutely sure. Also, has anyone bottled in PET bottles and been happy with their beer anywhere up to...
  13. kaiserben

    Yeast starter flask volume

    How big a starter can I fit in a 3L erlenmeyer flask if I don't have anything to control foam? (will be using a stir plate for the first time and I need to get as close to 3L as I can to reach my required cell count). Will be pitching WLP838 (71% viability). I need 425 million cells (would...
  14. kaiserben

    Orange Extract/Peel

    (I thought I'd posted this topic already, but it seems to have disappeared???) Has anyone used orange extract instead of peel? I've started making my own orange (and vanilla) extract and would like to use it both in place of peel added at end of boil (for a Belgian style), and also as a turbo...
  15. kaiserben

    Using old yeast

    I have a vial of WLP007 in the back of my fridge which reached it's used-by date today. Can I make a starter from it and build it up to a point where it is viable in 23L of 1.050 wort? If so, what do I need to do exactly, and how do I know when I have the right amount? (Dumb down your...
  16. kaiserben

    Lagering vessel options

    Soon I'm going to make a lager (a dunkel) and I'll want to lager it for a while (ideally I'd like to split my batch into 2 equal 10.5L batches, put one on oak staves and leave the other one as is). I'm also looking at making a Belgian Quad that I wouldn't mind ageing in secondary for a while...
  17. kaiserben

    Blow off tube with glad-wrapped fermenter?

    For those who use Glad wrap instead of a lid and air-lock, what do you do about a blow off tube? I've got a stout that I'm about to re-make that made an awful mess last time I made it (using an air-lock in a 28L capacity ss fermenter). This time I want to use a 30L plastic fermenter with...
  18. kaiserben

    Gravity issues from out of nowhere

    I seem to have developed an issue where my ferments are getting stuck, or something ... I'd previously had dozens of successful ferments. All dry yeast strains (M44 most of the time), usually just the single packet, sprinkled, fermented at ~20C in a insulated chamber, no temp control, primary...
  19. kaiserben

    Sail & Anchor / Karl Strauss colab "The Bloke" Red Ale

    I quite liked this and wouldn't mind making something similar myself. Would anyone who tried it like to make some suggestions about how to make a clone? I got these bits of info from the breweries' websites and also from various media articles: Malts: Ale malt, Melanoidin, Caramunich...
  20. kaiserben

    Lactose advice

    I bought 1kg bag of lactose with a view to using most of it in a milk stout. I did a fair bit of reading around this forum (and also the internet in general) and came to a conclusion that the best time to add lactose was post-boil (so as not to boil it off). But then I saw a milk stout recipe...
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