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Here are the extra instructions they should provide for the MJ Dual Temp Controller: Hold the 'S' key, until F1 appears. Press the up/down arrow to move between F1 and F4. Press the 'S' key again to enter into F1 - F4. Change the value by using the up/down key. When value is set to where you...

Having an open day at the brewery this Sunday, Nov 27th, 10 till 2. There will be tastings and bottle sales of two beers: a golden ale and a black ale. Closed footwear please. Address is 4/53-55 Regentville Rd Jamisontown (Penrith) 2750 Pat

After about 18 months of doing contract/gypsy work, the first of my beers is now available for sale. Lounge is a pale golden ale 4.8%abv, bitterness in the low 30s with Ella, Helga and Saaz. At the moment you can buy it online, http://www.caseysbeer.com.au/?post_type=product , and pick it up...

Absolute Homebrew is moving to Penrith. Saturday June 25th will be the last day at St Marys. The new shop will open on Tuesday July 5th. The address is 8 Woodriff St North, corner of Edwards Pl. The main reason for the move is that having bled the shop dry for cash to set up a brewery, the shop...

Brewed with the Commander today. Wyeast 1318 London Ale 3 Mash 66 deg in 13 litres Acid malt 100g CaraHell 150g Commander 3750 Total 4 kg 20 g each Citra and Hersbrucker @ 45 minutes 30 g Hersbrucker @ 1 minute OG 1042 All went smoothly enough. Will see how it shapes up. Should be on tap in...

Iodine test for starch conversion.

1. DME is a Canadian equipment manufacturer. 2. Paddys at Flemington Mkts has never really been the same since Gerard Meares left. 3. Station Bar at Katoomaba is pretty good. Run a floating selection of beers - Young Henrys, Riverside, Moo Brew, Little Creatures specials, Two Birds etc etc...

BB bags are easier to open. Pat

Commander is the replacement malt for Galaxy from Barrett Burston. Low beta-glucan, high diastatic power (311 WK), and 4 ebc of colour. Will brew for the shop with it this weekend. $53 per 25 kg bag, delivery available with Fastway. Pat

Alternatively, mash low, lots of caramel malt and an attenuative yeast. Have a 3%er on in the shop at the moment from a demo several weeks back. 2700 g ale malt, 500 g crystal malt, mashed at 63-64 deg, about 20 IBU of Target and Fuggles, fermented with Mangrove Jack British Ale yeast - fairly...

Give extract brewing a miss, for the effort involved you will be selling yourself short. What advance is extract brewing over a can kit? It's the same stuff. One of the problems with 100% malt extract beers is that they tend to be overly sweet, especially if you start adding any crystal/caramel...

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For the Morgans Export/Premium range the yeast packets were labelled as Ale or Lager (Blue Mtns Lager, Stockman's Draught, Golden Saaz Pils). The yeasts were Mauribrew 514 and 497 respectively. For their Australian range it was the 514 in plain packaging. All the yeasts now for their kits are...

Zardez what is it you don't like about the beer? And what beer kits have you used? And how long was it in the bottle for? With these sorts of questions the first thing to work out is whether there are objective faults with the beer, or whether it is a matter of taste. I once had a customer who...

Very interesting. Sorry I can't offer any solution or explanation, just an observation. I have always found the BB base malts - Galaxy, Pale and Ale, are consistenly far messier to mill than any other malts. The barley variety for both JW Trad Ale and BB Ale is the same, Gairdner. I can't see...

Thanks very much to Pimpsqueak for his efforts. Sorry for the disappointment for everybody else. Pat

Brewing demo Saturday August 25th, 1:30 pm at Absolute Homebrew, NSW. Will use an insulated 20 litre plastic bucket with tap, grain bag, 15 litre stock pot, and 3.5 kg of malt to brew an all grain mid strength beer to fill a Cornie keg. Alternatively you could could brew a smaller volume of...

The 1968 is a nice yeast, but I only keg (chronic pre-bottling stress disorder). Have a beer on in the shop with it. Suggestion: before you add a 2nd yeast pull a few bottles and prime them very lightly or not at all. See how they shape up. Pat

No rice in Kirin lager. According to the label it's malt and maltodextrin. For rice beer there is sake. Pat

Carbonation drops take some time to dissolve. Wait for a couple of days after bottling and then invert each bottle a couple of times to mix the dissolved drops. If you don't do this the dissovled drops end up as a thick syrup sitting in the bottom of the bottle. which the yeast will be very slow...