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[font=Arial] Hey Fents - sorry been out of touch for a few days. I did have yellow coopers caps - and by the description it does sound a fair bit like my beer. I have to agree - the hops really hasn't come through (used fuggles at a few diff temps), and it was quite dark and malty with a...

[size=1] Excuse #2: I stole my bottles from a pub... honest!!!

Hey crew - a little off topic, but from reading all the notes being put up there is one very interesting common theme.... There are 2 big factors driving the outcome of tasting beer: 1. The expectation of the drinker of the beer, and 2. The beer itself! It seems as if when people have an...

Hey there - I have finally got around to starting the tastings - good stuff! First cab off the rank.... Dark Faerytale - Smoke Ale Appearance: Glowing golden colour, a nice 1cm head - it carbed up quite well Aroma: Slight hop in the first smell, with a bit deeper digging I could really pick...

Hey there crew... thanks for the feedback (fantastic stuff & a lot of great thoughts/ideas for the next version). In terms of the recipe - I can't remember off the top of my head, but will get back to you. However, this is the bit where I own up to it not being an AG, it is a kit with some DME...

Hey there - I know that apd and I are planning on making an appearance. We haven't decided what day yet, and are hoping to bring along a couple of other budding brewers to help them get inspired... Should be good looking at the posts about previous events.

He sure has! I'm going to go for the 'quality not quantity' approach (i.e. I'm a lazy bugger!) :P Great work - I'm going to crack my first one tonight and see what happens. Cheers Chris

Thanks for the venue Spills - excellent food, discussion and learnings!! And most improtantly, thanks to all for the beers provided... that was bloody awesome! I can't tell you all how impressed I was with the quality of the beers floating around... I'll have to get my act together ;)

1. Peels - Cream ale - Labeled Cream Ale by Peels - Ready to drink 2. DarkFaerytale - Smoked Ale 3. Lucas - Batz Altbier - labeled "alt" on caps + dodgy masking tape label - ready to drink 4. Wardhog Sloppy Skunk Fart APA - 'WAPA' on lid, will crack a tester soon and update 5. Fents - IPA -...

Nice work DarkFaeryTale... very bloody impressive!! And not to mention seriously cool B) Hmmm... shall I go with black pen or black pen and masking tape?!?

Our dog is a wiermaraner called Grace (GreyC as she is a grey dog). This was my second choice - I wanted to call her 'duct tape'... as we were originally going to get a boxer at the same time, and the boxer was going to be called 'cardboard'... I figured that cardboard and duct tape go...

Damn... wish I had known about this tip earlier!

apd... Are we going to aim for the 2:00pm meet-up? That's my vote - I can pop around to your place with 'the goods' around 1:00pm and we can go from there. spillsmostofit... if you could send through your details that would be great

... So feel free to line up a few of those plastic cups - and don't go soft on the fairy bread!! :party:

Speaking of which... when we are driving around collingwood asking the junkies and bums where the brew swap central drop off point is... what are they likely to say?? :blink:

How does Saturday sound?? :chug: APD and I will be making an appearance at the central collection point with the 'brews from the west' (scary sounding... isn't it!?!)

I'm going to put this idea in my little black book of brewing... and bring it out come summer. It will prbably be terrible... but hey - it will certainly be different! :huh: PS Nice spotting!

You called?!? :P

I have just run a batch with that yeast - and the good news is that although it was a bit on the nose early in the ferment, I am pretty happy with the final result. The recipe sounds the goods - I'm keen to know how it turns out, I might be tempted to have a go myself.... B)

Hey there - I recently finished a brew with similar quants of malt - came out fine in 2 weeks, it ran at about 23-23.5 degrees (higher than normal for my brews, which might have been due to the yeast I used - a belgian abbey 1762).