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G'day Recently my secondary (and conditioning) fridge went bung. FYI, I usually force carbed using basically the Ross method. The last couple of kegs I forced carbed are just sitting in the garage (20 C average) waiting their turn to make it to the dispensing fridge (as the conditioning fridge...

G'day All went to a nice thai place last night and bought a tallie of the beautiful coopers stout from the bottlo next door. only prob is that coopers stout is over 6% and sometimes I prefer a stout a bit less potent. Enter stage left, Carbine stout. I used to really like this beauty but I...

Hi All I have been using a soda stream adaptor for a year or more with my keg setup and until now have never had a problem. However the last three bottles I've used (over the last week) wont completely tighten and gas just p&sses out everywhere. I can really only see two possibilities. 1)...

G'day Guys about 2 months ago i saved some of the slurry (mixed with some water) from an APA using US-56 yeast. My questions are is it still OK to use - its been in a sealed container in the fridge for this time. and as the slurry in the container has seperated to look like the bottom half is...

ive just poured 2 batches down the drain - not that they tasted bad, but they all taste like Begian beers (kind of spicy/estery). This might not be the best description but i hope you get what i mean. I still have 2 batches to pour out and from what i just tasted - maybe a third! The only...

For any extract brewers out there: I recently bought some "brew your own" magazines (from the US). Coopers advertises quite heavily in this mag and i noticed from one of their ads that the LDME is only 59.9% fermentable. Sure, many of you probably knew this but i certainly didnt (i thought...

i have been brewing for 3 years now and have used this site and the grumpsters probably 1000 times - but i rarely post because usually i am just happy to read about the how's and why's but last weekend i bought a chest freezer and rigged up a thermostat (wiring info from this site of course!)...