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Hi AHB , Long time no post. Pistol Patch is making a special trip from Perth just to meet the Red Hill brewers at Harts this Thursday. If anyone who knows (or knows of) the infamous PP and would like to catch a beer with him, head up Essex St from 5.30. I wouldn't mind catching up with an old...

Help me AHB brethren! I am meeting someone in Newtown tonight and will have a few hours to kill before the gig we're going to starts. Want to have a few ales beforehand. What is the best place for a beergeek to drink in Newtown(NSW)? Would like to see what St Peters are up to, for instance...

Heard on the rumour mill that some famous un-sexed entrepreneur (approximately the 261st richest man in the world) has bought or is in the process of buying The Australian Hotel in the Rocks. The rumour goes on to say that all Australian beers will be removed from the bar, being replaced by...

I thought I'd start a thread tracking AHB members attending the Ale Stars sessions at the Darlinghurst Local Taphouse. So who else is going to the Darlo Ale Stars session tonight 7/4/09? http://thelocaltaphouse.blogspot.com/2009/...p-for-next.html Hoping to see a few familiar faces about.

The Schwartz Brewery and the Macquarie Hotel proudly present The Inaugural Schwartz Brewery Home Brewing Competition. Theme: Winter Warmers. The theme of the competition is to brew a Winter Warmer between 4% and 7% alcohol by volume. The beer can be of any style, recognised or otherwise, that...

Hi Fellow Sydneysiders (and anyone else in town), We never seem to get together often enough in large numbers. So I propose we have some Xmas beers next Friday, the 5th of Dec, starting at.... dunno, 6pm, at the Lord Nelson? There is a notorious Westratlian AHB poster going to show up for one...

Any of the AHB Sydney workers up for a Macca lunch tomorrow? I wouldn't mind popping out for an ale or two to break up the day a bit.

MOD: Above added by Lord Raja Goomba I, to allow hop descriptors to appear as the first post. MOD: Original post below Summer Saaz is a mis-named hop. Whatever it's lineage, given how the finished product tastes, it's a crime imho to call it anything Saaz. Boring and lifeless hop character...

Not sure if anyone else has posted this, but Google recently added most of SE Australia's street view camera shots. Here is a close-up of my office. The pic is roughly centred on my window. You can drag and drop the little man on the map to any street with blue outlines, then move the image...

I might be a little confused by what people mean by the word "crisp". I see it a lot as a positive flavour attribute of bland beers like TED. To me, "crisp" is a texture rather than a flavour. Eg Ryvita is crisp, bread is doughy. I can't place an attribute in beer that I would describe as...

I've been recently introduced to this method of mashing not often seen in home breweries. Well, I heard about it when I started mashing, but like most of us here, crushed fine and used the grain bed as a filter for the floury part of the crush. I've been posting bits and pieces about floating...

I'm a bit of a TF2 nut. Just wondering how many of you guys I might have fragged over the last few months. My son and I share a Steam account and play as "Socket 7", usually tagged up with [OCAU]. Usually hang around the Internode or GA servers.

Hi, Due to my poor planning, I currently have some keg space and having seen SWMBO buying carbonated San Pellegrino and Perrier and all that stuff, I figured I could make a 20L batch for craploads less than the imported stuff. So I gassed up a keg and put in a teaspoon of calcium carbonate and...

I have today off (good ole govt flexi-time), and because we had a busy weekend the house is in a state. I decided not to play my usual flexi-golf but instead to clean the house and brew two beers. Beer #1 is in the mashtun now. Pale Ale Malt, a bit of brown malt, a bit of crystal and a couple...

My kids are finally old enough to not be a total PITA while travelling, so we're taking a trial OS holiday to the North island of NZ in November (late Springtime). We'll be spending a little time in Aukland for business, but travelling all over the North island as much as possible in between...

This is the final list of beers in the NSW case swap. Post you tasting notes below. 1. Thommo - Blonde Ale - Nottingham - Leave it two to three weeks. 2. Josh - German Pilsner - WLP800 - drink 20/07 onwards. 3. davekate - Honey Pilsner - (K-97) - bottled 14/04/07 - drink in Aug/Sep 4...

I'm currently boiling a pale ale. Here is the grist: 4.5Kg Pilsner Malt 250g Dark Crystal 50g light choc The kettle hit 25L at 1.044, which should boil down to a nice 1.048. Runnings were still coming out at 1.020, so i chucked some Munich (a bowlful?) and a handful of crystal and a pinch of...

I picked up a couple of disposed-of Comms racks from work last month. Yesterday I dragged them down a couple of flights of stairs to the brewery/patio and popped my brewing vessels into them: Just need to cut a hole in the kettle's shelf and install another shelf for the burner. The rack on...

Quick question for those in the know. I recently had a string of bad beers. Like really bad - a strong taste of almond skin or some bitter nut - in a whole bunch of beers. I've tracked down the culprit - a suspected yeast infection in "Fermenter A", which is your standard 30L twist top HDPE...

I'm not a big US hop fan, but that said, I seem to brew and drink a lot of Amarillo and Cascade hopped beers with US-56 <_< Anyway, I've just tasted the (fully fermented) starter of an American Brown batch. (Just about to pitch the starter into 20 litres of the stuff if I can keep myself from...