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G'day Brewers, I just received my Italian Spiral Burner from Beerbelly and have a couple of questions regarding assembly of the beast. The included instructions for assembly are a bit vague. How imperitive is it that the burner ring is central in the stand? There are two knob-like protrusions...

G'day Brewers, I've attached a pic. It's a bit hard to capture the detail but it looks like a cobweb coated with yeast particles and sways around intact, remaining attached to the glass when you move the bottle I can't see a thread of any description in the bottle so it would have to be...

Evenin Brewers, Rather than doing full volume boils at the moment, I'm adding LDME and chilled water after the boil to achieve target OG. When formulating partial recipes from AG recipes, do I adjust my pre-boil gravity to the target gravity or somehow calculate a similar pre-boil gravity to...

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I want to dunk sparge my grains in a seperate vessel and need to caclulate the maximum grain to water ratio I can use in my vessel. Approximately how much water will my 3kg of grains displace if they are premashed?

G'day Brewers, I've had my 500ml bottle of starsan for over 18 months now and I'm wondering when is it time to get a fresh bottle. My solution is still clear after I dilute it and it froths when I shake it up but not like it used to. I just don't get the amount of foam I was getting when I first...

G'day Brewers, I'm in the process of researching cost effective ways of insulating methods for my 32 litre SS pot for use as a mashtun. I'm interested in finding some different ideas and perhaps coming up with something new that may work well by upgrading the camping mat solution. I've done a...

G'devenin Brewers, What is the biggest boil you have ever managed on a single electric stove-top element? I know all stoves are different, I have one of the standard coil electric element jobs, 3 small with 1 big one and have been doing 9 litre boils on the big one. I'm wondering what the thing...

G'day Brewers, I've decided to make my next brew a partial ESB using the BIAB method. I'll be investing in a 24 litre pot for kettle and insulating it for a mash tun as well. I've done a lot of reading in the last few days and also a few calculations in an attempt to put a recipe together...

G'day Brewers, I just opened my fermentation fridge after a cold crash to 1.5 degrees from around 19 degrees to find the starsan in the airlock has frozen and the fermenter has been sucking air straight from the fridge by the looks of it. Hopefully the brew will still be OK, it's a 2 piece so I...

My Hefe Weissbier has just starting throwing off massive amounts of rotten egg gas. I made up a 2.5 litre starter and pitched it into my 1.044 wort at 18 degrees C. The starter smelled very nice and I fed it with around 1 litre of the batch wort which was beginning to ferment while my wort was...

G'devinin Brewers, I'm just browsing through Jamil and Palmer's 'Brewing Classic Styles ' for something to do and noticed they often include base malts in the steeping grains section of some of their recipes. They suggest these need to be mashed but can be steeped, Aromatic, Melanoidin...

G'day Brewers, I took my sample of 3638 out of the fridge where it has been happily sitting for 8 months. It was taken from a 1 litre starter built from a fresh smack pack and settled out to around 1 cm of slurry in the bottom of a stubby of beer. I gave it 250ml of 1.040 wort 3 days ago and it...

G'day Brewers, Has anyone purchased the Dried Wheat Malt Extract from CraftBrewer or does anyone know what brand it is? I'm after the Munton's DWME. I've emailed the shop last week but received no reply. I sent Ross a PM but his response was that he's away from the shop and to ring them. I don't...

Evenin' Brewers, I'm planning an extract Hefe Weissbier of sorts and would be interested in any opinions or pointers on a recipe which is in it's early stages. I haven't ordered any ingredients as yet so anything goes with the extract, hops and spec. grains. I do however have a nice little...

Evenin Brewers, Has anyone had any experience with Dried Oat Extract? I've just noticed it on the Craft Brewer website and never seen a recipe which includes it or heard it mentioned before. Cheers, Boagsy

G'day Brewers, I picked up a 200g sachet of what is labelled as 'Keg Cleaner' yesterday at a homebrew shop. It has in brackets 'Sodium Dichlorisocyanurate + Trisodium Phosphate' as ingredients. Instructions are; Use 1-2 teaspoons in 5 litres of cold water to clean, sterilise and deodorise kegs...

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G'day Brewers, I've got big expectations of this baby. 27 litres 4kg LDME 1kg dextrose 500g Carafa III 250g Carabohemian 240g Pale Chocolate 130g Roast Barley 41g Galaxy @ 60mins 27g Magnum @ 30 mins 35g D.Saaz @ 5 mins 32g Styrians Goldings tossed in the wort @ flameout 4 litre starter of...

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