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Hey all, About to dive into mineral additions to attempt to replicate a water profile. Given the sydney water website locates your address and will then spit out details specifically for brewing, ive come up with the below beersmith calcs for a burton on trent water profile. Does the attached...

Hi All, long time no brew. I decided to dust off my AG gear and put down a batch today, a fav IPA of mine, after a bit of a bumpy run getting mash temps stable etc, the boil went off without a hitch and i sterilised my immersion chiller @ 10 mins to boil finish and was pretty happy at flameout...

Hi All, Long time no post for me, i've moved house (enmore) and no longer have the space for my previous esky, multi pot, gas burner setup so am going to have to re-think and would like to go electric. I was mid build of a Herms system that i've put in storage with lots of my other brewing...

after getting given a copy of jamies america i had to give one a whirl... http://gibbosfoodstuffs.blogspot.com

Hey guys, don't know if this is good or not but i saw in the Rays fathers day catalouge they have 40L Crab cooking pots with a strainer/collander type thing that fits inside it with a handle, looks perfect for BIAB or some type of HB application, they're $99

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Hi Brewers, I'm doing some recipe development and was curious as to what levels choc malt will add flavour, for instance, i have in my recipe 50g which was originally to add some colour and flavour to some straight up galaxy and wheat malt and to give some nuttyness to what could be a bland...

Seared Stuffed Cuttlefish with Chorizo and Chickpea salad http://gibbosfoodstuffs.blogspot.com

I have brewed myself an IPA, i have bittered to 62IBU, its down to about 1025 and its tasting VERY bitter, in the sense that its not tasting all that balanced, i may have mashed to low (66) it has 800g of crystal in it all up. I love IPAs and love a good bitter so its not my palate, but at what...

Thought i'd put this in a new thread so as to not pollute the ercipe DB thread. I just had an epiphany, I had left a mouthful of my coopers clone in a glass last night (made as per Andrews version on the recipe DB and with recultured coopers yeast), and I had a sniff this morning, the malt...

...is coming home and checking if your batch of all grain ale you slaved over all day to see if the yeast is firing to discover the tap has popped out and your 22l's has halved. I'm so angry i could throw a midget.

Hi brewers, I decided to take apart my font and giove my taps a once over, so i dismantled and was pretty much horrified with what i found inside them. I usually run warm caustic through them once every few months and have never taken them apart. What i found in the moving barrel of the tap was...

Does anyone know if there is a commercial supermarket brand of Sodium Hydroxide? I need to gove the taps and a couple of kegs a clean and have run out. LHBS tried to gove me pink stain cleaner.

Hi chaps, I'll describe the situation. I brewed a triple decocted pils yesterday and had made a pretty large starter at the same time with the intention of chilling it overnight to drop the yeast and pour off and pitch by the time i was down to larger temps (8 degs). The wort has now been in...

I fellas, i'm about to put down a bit of a freezer clearance brew and will be making an ale, maris otter, some crystal, some wheat, yorkshire yeast, bittered with super alpha to around 35 IBU an was going to finish it off with the aforementioned hops, was thinking 20g styrians @ 10mins and 20g...

I know there are a number of diacetyl threads every week, but i thought it may be helpful to hear about an actual account from start to finish that puts all the theory into practice. Ok, first of all and i believe is where my problem started, i made a yeast starter, and a pretty strong one, i...

Hi Guys, I'm putting down a brew this weekend and have two yeast cultures on hand to choose from and was about to make a starter. The recipe below has some fairly out there grains and i really want to be able to taste the malt aromatics from the carared and halcyon so am wondering if i should...

Hi, thought i'd share a little project i did last week. I wanted some cold air in my font to stop the first beer being poured from being all head, so i figured a little exhaust fan to grab the cold air from under the element and blow it up some tube, into the font hole under the wooden bar. I...

Yay!! triple decoction, hit all my temps bang on, my house smells like malt and biscuits. One thing i did notice though was the massive improvement in wort clarity, anyone else notice this with decoctions? I was also surprised with how dark some of the grains go from being boiled...

Hi guys I had 1 liter of yorkshire yeast that i had just finished cleaning and had racked off the water. and i couldn't help but take a photo of its beauty. I knew that no one else i showed would appreciate it so i had to post it up here. also a pic of my dog, he's world revolves around his...