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straight from the tap here. Melbourne water is among the best in the country for drinking in my opinion. After living in North Qld for 10 months and tasting the aweful water up there I can contest to that (I wouldn't drink the water up there or god forgive use it in a brew...)... See how you...

well i was suprised how much it was liking the low temps but since it was bubbling heaps i just let it go. Infection has sprung to mind but i've brewed many times with the same sanitisation ritual and the same equipment without any problems in the past. For the record though... I've been...

I've produced a few brews using coopers kits and i've been having a problem with a sulpher odour from the fermenter. This has happened on two coopers draughts and one coopers pale ale. Using the kit yeasts. All three brews fermented fine in about 4 days at around 14-16degC and a day or two...

as previous people have mentioned, just leave it as-is..... who knows the brew might turn out to be the best beer you've ever brewed.... Then you'll be trying for years to replicate the freak circumstances that led to such a brew!

I love JSGA, it's probably my favourite James Squier beer. Worst? XXXX Gold gets my vote. I spent 9 months working in nth queensland and now that i'm back in melbourne i no longer have to worry about someone shouting a round of XXXX Gold.... I second Crown Lager it's aweful, followed by...

I had dinner here recently after reading this thread. And I must admit i'm extremely impressed. I'll skip mentioning how good the food was and move straight to the beers! Storm Cloudy Ale was my pick of the night, followed closely by the Prickly Moses wheat beer and the red hill scotch ale...

Sounds like it was going fine but the fermenter lid or airlock probably wasn't sealed properly. It's quite common. Just remember to take the OG reading before adding the yeast. Aside from that everything else sounds good. Once you've done a few brews it's pretty hard to mess things up and...