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Hi Perth brewers, I have 4 X 3.5kg empty out of date Co2 extinguishers and an ancient 6kg CO2 bottle free to a good home. A few years ago, there was a guy in Rivervale who would convert these for the home brewers. I don't know if he still does it. I also have about 30 Grolsch bottles and the...

My rig is fitted with a couple of dodgy washing machine pumps which have given many years of service and no electric shocks (surprise!). Fortunately, I burnt one out yesterday so bit the bullet and actually decided to spend money on new pumps, rather than on fuel and time, trawling the verge...

My wife found a bottle of Pro26 yeast that had been sleeping in the kitchen fridge since July 2010. I fed it and it wakes after a couple of days and produces a nice clean starter so I brewed a Munich style lager with it which has now been in cold conditioning for a week after the ferment...

I fought osmosis for 30 years when I had the fibreglass factory and when I retired I thought I would never see it again, but the inside of my beer freezer conversion has suffered badly all around the condensation zone. Five years ago, this appliance looked brand new and now look at it. Oh well...

I scrounged a 240V industrial roller door motor so decided to totally rebuild my grain mill and do the things I should have done over the past eight years and also incorporate this motor. The label has gone apart from "Made in Australia" so I cant tell much about it except the motor dimensions...

Just noticed that the 24 hour special today at OO.com.au is a vacuum packer and a few bags thrown in. Price is 50 bux. (no affiliation etc.) Look it up if interested. You'll save more than that by bulk buying your hops.

I finally got around to converting my old fridge to an oven. This thing is about 70 years old so has an interior of baked enamel which can stand oven temperatures once I ripped out the rubber gasket and masonite door liner and replaced them with fibreglass and aluminium. I cut some 3" holes in...

After an outlay of $5.00 and 40 years of almost continuous operation, I decided to break down my 70 y/o Genelex fridge so i could turn it into a smoker as the insides are baked enamel. It then occurred to me I could make a glycol tank with the hardware as I didnt have to cut gas lines. I was...

Bunnings in Balcatta are clearing this stuff at $7.00/3metre roll. I don't know if this is nation wide and 3 metres is not that useful on its own, but if one is able to swage and solder, they could make themselves a cheap cooling coil.

Two questions. 1. Has anybody had dealings with Puterbaugh Farms (Hops Direct) in the US and were you successful. 2. Has anybody used their US Saaz or US Saaz in general and how do these varieties compare with the CZ originals. That's really four questions but they have just started selling the...

I saw these in a prague supermarket. They are as large as a 50L keg but contain 20L beer. As they are self contained, I presume there is gas storage within. I dont know how they chill them as it would hardly slip into the fridge. 790 crowns is about $55AUD.

I've made snags for many years but always with natural casings. I thought I would try some 30mm synthetic ones, so just ground up and spiced 5kg of pork and stuffed half a metre of casing and threw straight onto the barbeque to check the spice balance. Well, the bloody things split in about two...

If I plug a fridge into a remote temperature control that switches the whole thing off and on, to what extent does the freezer work if I am running the cooling cabinet at say 10C to lager. My old 1950s' Genelex that I now use just has the little ice box inside, and is getting a little tempremental.

Today, the doctor dropped the clanger we all dread to hear "Cut back on booze or look forward to liver disease in a couple of years down the track". My beers are typically around 5.5% so I figure that if I can brew something below 3.5% I can follow doctors orders and still indulge in my habitual...

Having been lightheartedly impugned for being a bit valve happy, I thought it best I justify myself by submitting a schematic of the current layout I use. I previously would take about ten trips around my rig wondering what to switch where and often getting it wrong. I even pumped half the mash...

My brews have been a bit off lately ( some will immediately chorus Whats new?) so, heeding Dean McLeods excellent advice that he passed on at the WCB meeting last Monday ---- you cant sterilise a dirty surface I put a mild sodium hydroxide soln thru my CFC. Well, you should have seen the...

I just racked off a first generation Wyeast 3068 weinstephan which I was about to send down the drain as I am not likely to use it before next summer. If anyone in Perth wants to feed and nurture it, just PM me. I wont clean the fermenter 'til tomorrow arvo.

Just picked up a 50L keg off the verge rubbish pickup. Its no good to me so its free to a good home in Perth. It's still half full and under pressure but I have no idea how to access it and the contents smell distinctly cidery, so its not nitroglycerine inside but I doubt there is anything...

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As I now use a 24V battery charger on my grain mill, I'm aware of the current draw. The last couple of crushes of JW Pilsner malt needed a current draw of around 7 amps. I purchased a new bag last week and the draw was down to 3 to 4 amps. I did not change any settings on the mill so this...