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Hmmmm.... I'm about to put a beer-can chicken on the bbq with some smoking chips. It just occurred to me - adding a little roasted malts (i.e. dark crystal) might add some interesting flavours. Has anyone done anything similar? Will I be wasting good malt?

Just wanted to throw this one out there. Beer bottled today - tastes fine, good in fact. But there was something interesting going on over the surface. There was a very slight, and I mean slight, oiliness to the top of the beer and the top third of the batch contained a lot of tiny little...

I'm in the process of planning my next brew. The yeast I will be using will be reused from a previous brew, but I have a couple of options. Just wondering which would be the 'safest' option with regard to infection risk, off flavours etc.: Option 1: Pitch straight onto yeastcake of current...

Using WLP810 San Francisco lager for the first time and finding it unusually slow to start... Pitched @ 20, slowly brought down to 16, where I planned to leave it... 48 hrs later and still no visible signs of activity - no airlock, no krausen, no gravity change. Pitched a fresh vial @ room...

Got some San Fran lager yeast (WLP810), US hops and caramunich and was thinking of knocking together something of a scaled back Cali Common. I'm shooting for a very sessionable amber lager - maybe like an American-styled Oktoberfest and was thinking of the following: 3.0 kg Pale Liquid...

Okay, so I found a couple of beers in the back of the cupboard. They're over a year old and, being in plastic bottles, they're flat as a tack. So I've chilled (to reduce any foaming) and dropped in two carb drops. Hoping they'll be deliciously re-carbonated in a couple of weeks. Has anyone...

I put down my first brew in about six months a couple of weeks ago (and man, did it feel good!). I was shooting for something at the heavier end of an american wheat or the lighter end of an APA and it looks like I've come up with the goods. All extract, about 30% wheat. Hopped with Fuggle...

I was wandering down my street on the weekend and noticed a neighbour was throwing out a 50L keg. While I don't have the time nor inclination to do anything fun with it, I figured I'd take one for the team and grab it. So, if you want it free, PM me. It has a CUB-type fitting. It's not...

Stumbled upon this on the Coopers site today: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A NEW BREW!! Look for EUROPEAN LAGER in variety stores and supermarkets. Europe is home to a multitude of breweries and as such, boasts a greater variety of beer styles than...

Is it just me or is seriously wrong? http://www.koestritzer.de/en/marken/bibop.html "Bipop - the black one "This is a refreshing drink of 50% Kostritzer Schwarzbier and 50% caffeinic Cola with exotic guarana." A recent post got me thinking about my favourite schwarzbier so I decided to visit...

I'm about to put down a brew using the following ingredients: 1 x tin Coopers Aust pale goo 1.5kg Pale LME Mini-mash of wheat crystal 55L and pilsner malt (probably around 500g of each) A sprinkling of Willamette @ 5 minutes for flavour Possibly, a sprinkling of Willamette dry hopped Yeast...

Okay, so I realise I'll be creamed for talking about an Australian beer with the word 'blonde' in it, but truth be told I quite like Cascade's offering as a nice, inoffensive lager. Anyway, thought I'd have a go at cloning one. My thoughts as follows: 1 x Morgan's Blue Mtn's Lager kit 1kg...

Picked up a case of Oettinger Pils in tinnies for $27.95 from a local bottlo the other night. Considering my purchase decision was based as much on price as curiosity, I was pleasantly surprised by just how drinkable it is. At this price it's the perfect throwdown beer. A respectable...

This thread got me thinking about using a lager yeast at lager temps to ferment a recipe that's more traditionally associated with an ale. While I'm sure it's technically possible to ferment out any wort with any yeast, surely some styles are more amenable to the idea than others. So what...

I'm currently looking for a bit of brewing inspiration. Currently got a Belgian-ish blonde ale finishing off fermentation, so will be heading out to the HBS to pick up the goodies for my next batch over the weekend. Im struggling with ale temps at the moment so think lager is the way to go...

Just wondering if anyone knows the breakdown of ingredients in the kilo packs of Coopers BE1 and BE2. I know they contain dextrose, maltodextrine and malt (in the 2) but how much of each is in each?

So my first lager has been fermenting away for almost a fortnight - sitting in the 100-can cooler with temps averaging about 11-12 degrees (+/- 1 degree). I'm at the stage now where fermentation is slowing. I guess it would usually be time to rack and cold-condition around about now, but I...

I'm about to put down a Coopers Bavarian Lager kit with a kilo of BE2 and 500g LDM. I'm tempted to also add a Cascade hops teabag. Would love to use saaz or something else a bit more noble but I don't have any on hand. Does anyone have an opinion of whether the cascade bag will improve the...

We all know a yeast starter can be cultured up from a bottle of Coopers, but what other beers are good for this? Any other Australian beers? Little Creatures?

My latest brew has just reached final gravity and I'd like to bottle but I'm having a bit of trouble with some mischievous trub. I've noted, filling the test tube to take a gravity reading, that little globs of trub are pouring out of the fermenter tap with the beer. The globs do sink...