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I get what you are saying about oxidisation it sort of makes sense when you think about it - say you have a 23 litre batch and then drop a 5 litre starter into it. Depending on how you made the starter wort you would be dropping nearly 22% oxidised starter into your beer. It really shouldn’t be...

You could always pitch your 90% of the 5l starter into the first beer and then step up another starter with what you have left from the first one - I have done this a few times. I start with about 500ml to get it going then step up to 1.5l then 3l - it takes a bit of planning, but it gets the...

It's definately from the damp of being inside a fridge - when I first got my kegging setup I decided to save a few bucks and bought a couple of brumby taps from fleabay - turns out they were chrome plated brass and after a short while of being exposed to the condensation build up the chrome...

I think that this is a good way ahead or look at a smaller setup and look at smaller batches. As far as extract goes it's not like the early 90's when I first started where home brew shops bought questionable malts in bulk and it sat around for ages, the hops were crap and the yeast was just...

I have both - the 50's are a PITA to move around and depending on what your set up is to dispense them yopur milage may vary - I am lucky enough to have a walk in coolroom to dispense the 50's from so I can shove them on a trolley and walk them into place. I almost have to psych myself up to...

Hi BAA, You could always bypass the STC 1000 on the back of the G20 with a stand alone RAPT Controller - would be pretty easy to do if you are handy with electrical work - I know it's not an unbox and plug in and away to go solution. I have a RAPT controller sitting on mine ATM just...

So I have managed to get a starter which I stepped up from 1 litre to 3 litres up and going at a gravity of 1.030 and it took off like a rocket on the stir plate. It just goes to show that if you have an expired yeast pack it might be worth trying to make a starter with it rather than the...

I started in 1994 with a Wander home brew kit that Santa left me under the Christmas tree that year. I was a young father of three kids under three with a wife that wasn’t working and things were pretty tight at the time – I could afford a carton of beer every fortnight depending on what was on...

I have had good experience substituting Ella for Galaxy in the past, I have also played with an El Dorado, Crystal blend before to get something in the same ball park when I lived in Darwin and the local brew shops were all focused on Kit and Kilo and not really interested in stocking hops -...

So, I have been cleaning up the “spare” fridge in the garage at the insistence of SWMBO and behind the crisper draw I managed to find three smack packs of Wyeast manufactured in May, Jun and Jul 2017. I thought to myself that they would be toasted by now and was going to throw them in the bin...

Yep it was definitely an off flavour (sort of like a background note)that went through the subsequent batch and I put it down to something from the ginger beer that had leached into or out of the HDPE fermenter, it was hard to put my finger on what it was exactly - going back over my notes the...

I have had turbo yeast washes and the colony west ginger beer kits leave behind flavours in the cheaper plastic fermenters before - it’s definitely a thing. If you really want to splash out you could look at one of the PET fermenters as they don’t seem to have issues or you could just get a $15...

Just got a couple of mid strength XXXX Gold clones int cubes today for my mega swill drinking mates who reckon it doiesn't give them the headaches that that the commercial stuff does when they have a big night on them - go figure.

The only thing that I have told the Mrs is if I die - don’t sell any of my brewing gear for what I told you I paid for it :)

Yep thanks - this looks awesome