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Hi there! After ten years of homebrewing, I have finally gotten around to kegging my beer. I have set up a KegLand Pluto gun, which I figured was an easy and cheap step into kegging, and I'm excited to try it out. Yesterday, I set everything up, checked for leaks, and did a test pour. After a...

Hi all. Barwon Water has just sent me the latest water quality results for water in the Pettavel zone in Geelong, which seems to take in the Waurn Ponds/Highton/Grovedale region. You can see the relevant map here. The results are: Parameter Average Value (July – September 2022) Units...

My science head says this is impossible, but my last two brews have seen me lose or gain no gravity during my boil. Today I had a pre-boil gravity of 1.046 and a post boil gravity of 1.046 (75-minute boil with pre- and post-boil volumes hit (29l down to 20l). The previous brew saw pre-boil...

Where has all the 2-row gone??? No-one seems to have any! Planned an American IPA, with a grain bill of 5.1kg of 2-row, a little bit of Vienna (450g) and 150g each of Munich and Carapils. If no 2-row is on the way, any suggestion on a good alternative to 2-row in an American IPA? Cheers Aaron

Howdy. Am looking to do a honey brown ale next weekend, but having never brewed with honey am looking for recommendations on a good honey to brew with. Will add the honey in the fermenter at high krausen, diltued with an equal amount of wort before adding. Not worried about introducing oxygen...

Does anyone here bother with a mash out step? I've always done one, raising the temp of the mash by infusion to 74 degrees to halt conversion, but many recipes I see don't list the step as necessary. I'm batch sparging, and it's only adding an extra ten minutes and it's not at all an...

Hi, I'm doing a clone of Avery's New World Porter (an American brewery). The grain bill has 4.3kg of Briess pale malt, 1kg Munich and some Caraaroma, chocolate and black malts. The recipe wants it boiled for 90 mins, but I don't see the point for that grain bill. Any reason, other than to...

Howdy, I entered my first comp recently and the beer was judged as having some DMS in it, which as you can imagine impacted the score. I (and some of the judges) put the DMS down to having a problem with the boil - presumably not vigorous enough to eliminate the DMS created during the boil...

Howdy, Am doing an India Session Lager with just under 3kg of grain, two infusion mash steps (67 degrees for 60 minutes, 74 for 10) and a batch sparge. Am using Beersmith for volume and heat calculations, and have had to tinker with the mash profiles to get one that matches what I want to do...

Howdy, my recipe calls for whirlpool hopping, but I put my immersion chiller in the kettle to sanitise it in the last 15 minutes of the boil. I imagine it will be next to impossible to get a whirlpool going with an immersion chiller in there. Does anyone just dump their chiller in a bucket of...

Bear with me while I explain... The ingredients I ordered online took far longer than anticipated. I naively thought couriered gear from the homebrew shop would turn up in a few days, not 10! I now have two weeks to brew, ferment, dry hop and bottle my beer before going on holiday. Not...

Hi, I'm a novice brewer and interested in attending your next meeting. Went to find some information on the club at your website but it appears to be down. Can anyone give me information on when and where the next meeting is? cheers Aaron

Hi, I'm looking at a recipe for a Hopfen Weiss from the book, "The Complete Homebrew Beer Book," by George Hummel (2011). The recipe is an extract with specialty grains, and it contains hops that I already have in my freezer, hence the interest. Problem is, the grains it wants steeped are...

Hi, Am brewing a Kolsch from a recipe. The recipe called for specific Wyeast or Whitelabs kolsch yeast strains that aren't available near me, so I decided to go for a German ale type yeast, also without luck. Settled on a Bohemian lager yeast, given that Kolsch beers are similar to lagers...

Hi, newbie brewer here with newbie questions.... The recipe I'm going to try (a pale ale from The Complete Joy of Homebrewing) says to add the malt extract and Amarillo hops to 7.5l of water and boil for 60 minutes. First silly question: do I add the hops and extract to cold water and then...