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i normally use no-name nappysan (find one with the most sodium percarbonate with no scent) and it gets my bottles clean with minimal effort, and ive cleaned some pretty horrible ones full of mould etc. if you really want to get the job done though, caustic soda will be your best bet, but be...

thats cascade brewery mate. can smell it from my place when the wind blows just right. they do make redback for matilda bay (have tasted it fresh and unfiltered before, much much nicer than the stuff in the bottle). not sure if they do beez neez though.

*drool* can i borrow it? :P

im the same for the next buy, only planning on sending a 3kg express post bag (have a few here at home already anyway), so im happy if mine come in a little under weight. hell, its going to take me forever to get through 3kg of hops anyway!

its a joke, yes. and freshness? haha, their hops are in zip lock bags and about as stale as they come! tassie sucks for homebrew :( edit ps. im back! probably havent posted or brewed in nearly a year. put on my first batch in ages last week. good to be back on the horse

no, thats not the point at all. my point is that many people are afraid to branch out and try new things. brand name loyalty is a bad thing imo. i like to take every opportunity to try something new.

totally off topic, but which directory assistance do you work for? i work for 1234 and thats pretty much the case for me. it extends beyond that sometimes though, eg when people ask for say bavarian beer cafe, i like to suggest a decent beer to try (chimay, la trappe, duvel, orval, westmall...

lol, saw when ep 1 came out on my private tracker and i thought it was a wine show! will dl when i get home.

cascade are just as bad mate. try living here...

GG Allin would be high up on my list. also the late micheal jackson,

that would be a pretty horrible thick sticky mess imo... you would also get rather average efficiency out of the hops. the best gravity for extraction is around 1040. better off with 1kg for 10 litres of water.

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this year I'll be starting around 8:05pm on the 24th (knock off work at 8:00pm, gives me 5 min to get out of there and to the pub and order a beer :P) probably have some sort of shut eye before starting again on the 25th.

lol, bump from the dead which added nothing that wasnt already said.

iirc the cascade kit comes with a lager yeast. that is going on memory though, could be wrong. regardless, the cascade kits are renowned for coming with terrible yeasts. much better off throwing it out and spending a couple extra bucks and getting a decent yeast. if its sulphur, then time...

also be careful dry hopping with fuggles, as it can taste a bit "grassy" a little goes a long way with this hop when dry hopping.

dont just boil the hops in water, you need some malt in there as well to aid extraction. also, hops in just water has a tendency to taste "grassy" around 1040 is a good gravity for boiling hops. 100g of dried malt extract in 1L of water = 1040

I would only use 1 carb drop per bottle, its a bitter, so its a low carb style beer. that said though, bulk priming would be heaps better to get the carbonation spot on.

have you even read this thread? lol. going on what ive heard on this site, and some mates personal experiences with BOP's, the general consensus is that they are pretty terrible. its just making extract homebrew in a shop, then they filter and force carb it for you. there is a market for...