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Howdy beer people, I brewed up an oatmeal stout a few weeks ago. Knocked up a 2L started with 2 packs of Wyeast 1099 Whitbread ale. One of the packs was about 2 months old and the other 3 months (since manufacture date), they had both swelled Ok over night, one better than the other. I planned...

Can anyone tell me where I might find some crap apples, or crap apple juice? I have tried looking on the net but have found nothing. Thanks Pip

G'day Chappo, Just hoping to ask a few questions about your recipe... 1. Seeing as you just add a bunch of simple sugars, does the US-05 yeast just ferment all of it if it is left to ferment out? Leaving a very dry GB? 2. When doing the non/low alcoholic one, I would have thought that after...

G'day, I have a few taps on a fridge in my garage with kegs connected. I have installed about 1.5m of 8mm LDPE tubing from the outpost to the tap of each keg to assist slow pouring to get the right head. I have noticed that if I pour a beer from one of the taps, the longer I leave it until the...

I understand that it is protein in the beer and boil that supports the head and boil overs. So at the beggining of the boil, before all the hot break has broken, there is much more protein in the wort. This is why it is much easier to boil over at the begining. So that scummy stuff is not hot...

I didnt read the article, but if you guys really want to know if it works then do a bacth of beer and split it into three ferments. One with areation, one with olive oil and one with neither. Pitch the same yeast to each and observe the difference.

I have checked out the average water profiles for various resevoirs around melbourne, but it was about a year ago. I realise that carbon filtering will not remove ions important for brewing, but the levels of the different ions present that are important, when compared to the amount you might...

I have been using CaS04. I realise that I could modify the recipe or try other things, but I am really most interested in the effect of sulphate ions on the flavour and bitterness from the hops. I have heard other talk about Chloride sulphate ratio, and I am interested in that too, if anyone...

I have recently brewed a Little Creatures Bright Ale clone. I live in Melbourne and carbon filter my water, so my base water is fairly clean. I have been adjusting my water according to an article I found online...

Your experience is very interesting reVox. I plan to try adding salts to see, but I think I will wait for a few weeks to see if it cleans up a bit. I was going off the taste of the brew from a keg and tonight tested a botle, whiuch was only boittled 7 days ago. It came up much better, but still...

I brewed this recipe recently. It has conditioned for about 2 weeks since the end of fermentation and I have carbed it and tasted it. The smell and appearance are almost identical to LCBA. The taste is similar, but lacks a certain polish on the hop flavour that I often find missing in hoppy...

Thanks for your input guys. I have made some great beers with S23, but am not surprised that most people dont think it would do a good bohemian pils. Stuster - I had considered doing something like a split batch, and in the past I have routinely made three very different beers from one big...

Hey guys, I have read a little about pilsener and am unsure of where a czech pils fits in. Firstly what is a czech pils and how does it differ from a bohemian pils and a german pils or american pils? The other questions I have is about Saflager S-23. At this stage I plan to brew a 50L batch of...

I never considered the conversion issue. I did allow an extra 45 mins of conversion time on top of the 90mins, but I only retrieved about 2.7L of mash liquor, when Andrew recommended 3L (also I used 4kg of grains to his 3kg!), so perhaps it just needed longer. That does fit the bill. I think I...

So my gut feeling is that my first GF beer is going to be a failure...but I have not given up hope yet. From my original 10kg of millet, I had 8kg left after malting and using the ARSE. And I had about 600g of roots and shoots. I dare say that about half of that was grains though, and there was...

G'day, I have built some items as described in your articles. Thanks, they are very helpful. I have got to the stage of using my ARSE, and have had some toruble with it. I have run various feeds, leaving two buckets - rejects and usable malt. They seem just as they should on first inspection...

G'day Guys, I wondering if anyone can tell me about restuarants in Melbourne that do beer and food matching? Thanks Pip

Thanks for the info guys. Mukanic - I am sure thatn these are proper stainless. I bought them on ebay from a winery, who was using them as conditioning tanks. I have drilled and welded them heaps and it behaves just like other stainless items I have. I am also interested in PBW, although its...

What is PBW?

I just found out that it is likely that these types of elements are usually coated in something to stop the copper from touching the water in the hot water system. Not really sure about this...anyone got any ideas? I should also say the flavour tastes like some contaminant, perhaps similar to a...