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Try shaking it for 10 seconds, then purging it, then shaking then purging about 6 times. Seriously, to me it just sounds like you've got far too much CO2 dissolved in your beer. Leaving it out and purging it once reduces this by very little. Do it a bunch of times by shaking it and you'll be...

Maybe it's just me, but i couldn't get that link to work i'm afraid. I imagine it's a link to a second hand bottle though. My advice would be to contact some CO2 providers to see if they'd be willing to fill it before you commit to buying it. But speaking for myself, i wouldn't go too far out...

Mate just wondering how tight you managed to get the lids on with the PET bottles. It takes a fair amount of pressure to dissolve CO2 in a warm liquid, and you'd be surprised how hard you might need to screw on the bottle caps to hold that sort of pressure. Could it be possible that you had a...

So I have a 2.3kg and a 6.8kg bottle and I reckon the 6.8kg ones are far superior in both value and usefulness. The thing is the 2.3 is just a bit too big to make a convenient travel companion, and just too small to provide value from your time and money in getting the damn things filled. IMHO...

Hi all. Sorry to disappoint anyone who was actually interested in these alleged rhizomes, but it has come to my attention that a lot of what was on offer was likely just big chunks of root, and not likely to grow. As such, I am henceforth withdrawing from selling them. The bloke who 'helped'...

Got a bunch of Chinook hop rhizomes for sale. They come from 2 different second year plants in sunny Brisbane. There's 25 all up and a link here to the photos. There's at least 2 photos of each, one showing the overall size, and one showing as best as can be demonstrated on a camera-phone...

Boiling water, and a few good stretches with the pointy nosed pliers gets mine on all the way every time. Takes a little bit of perseverance, but I find it holds the high pressure of the gas lines better than JGs in the long run anyway. Of course for the low pressure beer lines it makes no...

The real world still isn't quite ready for me, so I'm still a student. Part way through my eigth year now. Hope to be an intern next year, which is technically some sort of doctor, but only technically. Anyways, 8 years of exams gives one an awful lot of time to procrastinate. Brewing is...

Is 1019 the measurement with a hydrometer or a refractometer? If its a hydrometer then i have no advice i'm afraid other than swirl it and hope. If it's a refractometer i'd say you've probably not corrected for the change in optical density that the alcohol makes (basically refractometer FG...

Yeah, just to reiterate what others have said above: the amount of water you'd need to bring near boiling wort down to pitching temperature would drop your gravity enormously. Admittedly it might be possible to do in a very very concentrated partial, but to get an AG that concentrated would...

Hi all, Got a new toy for my bar I thought I might show you guys. It's one of those ultrasonic guinness surgers that you might see at a pub. Anyways, it turns out that apparently guinness are no longer selling the fairly flat surger cans in Oz, which inspired some poor publican to hock his on...

I agree that option 1 should suffice, but option 2 would be slightly more preferable if possible. In my experience force carbing a beer increases its shelf life out of a fridge enormously. I just took some kegs on a camping trip that had not been refrigerated at all for 18 months. Apart from...

QldKev 1kg MARCO POLO, 1kg CLUSTER, 1kg SAAZ, 2kg CASCADE, (1kg NUGGET), QLD KillerRx4 - 1kg MARCO POLO, 1kg SAAZ, 1kg CASCADE. Penrith, NSW Brads brew -1kg MARCO POLO, 1kg CLUSTER, 1kg SAAZ, 1KG CASCADE, QLD AndrewQLD - 1kg Cluster 1 kg Marco Polo, QLD Leigh -1kg MARCO POLO, 1kg CLUSTER, 1kg...

Just heard about this. Very very keen. Looks like there's a wee bit of room left. I just added myself for 2kg of each. Much love to the instigators. QldKev 2kg MARCO POLO, 2kg CLUSTER, 2kg SAAZ, QLD KillerRx4 - 1kg MARCO POLO, 1kg CLUSTER, 1kg SAAZ. Penrith, NSW Brads brew -1kg MARCO POLO...

Hi mate, I recently built a big piss off bar with a 10 tap flooded font on it and i can tell you that trying to get proper ice on your font without the proper equipment is not quite as easy as it sounds. The trouble is, if your glycol is much below -4 degrees it will actually freeze the beer...

Mate, in my humble experience overcarbed beer isn't that hard to fix. All you need to do is the reverse of force carbing it. Disconnect the gas. Pull the pressure release valve to purge the gas in the headspace of the keg. Shake the keg for 10 seconds then pull the pressure release valve...

Good question mate. It turns out that the logistics of getting enough fridge space to chill 10 kegs and getting enough freezer space to keep a reservoir big enough for 10 taps worth of glycol was a fair nightmare. In the end I have had to settle for a compromise. I have a chest freezer on the...

Hi all, I just wanted to announce the completion of the bar I have been building for the last few months, and to show you all a few pics. It's a 10 tap flooded effort with prep bench and a serving bench, but since pictures tell a thousand words I'll shut up and let you see for yourselves. At...

The cooler has now been sold, so there's nothing left.

Sorry mate, little fridge was taken away with the big fridge by GravityGuru this arv. Just the drink fountain left if anyone wants it.