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Just saw this on 2MT website: Hand Pumps: Bar None, Camberwell Penny Blue, City The Precinct, City Railway Hotel, South Melbourne Can anyone validate this?

No other real ales on pump yet aside from Penny Blue though. Surely there is more than one bar in all of Melb?

Two? What's the other bar you speak of?

Holgate Brewery is way out in Mt Macedon, bit far to travel from Fitzroy for a Friday night pub :) ESB and Porter is not the real ale I had in mind either. Penny Blue http://www.pennyblue.com.au/ is right in town, 2 Driver Lane. Pretty good bar really, a little bit toffy but the beer is A1.

Wow, what a surprise to find a hand pump at the little bar in town called Penny Blue. However it was the Real Ale they had on it which properly surprised me. Two Metre Tall is the small Tassie farm-based brewer and the drop was called Cleansing Ale. I could have been back in a heratige listed...

Last night I chilled the bottle in the fridge properly before pouring and what do you know? The head was perfect. Thanks manticle, I never knew that would happen if the beer wasn't properly chilled. Commercial beers don't present this effect/problem do they? Not from what I recall anyway.

Ahhh! It was a damn hot day here yesterday and in my eagerness to test my German Lager I only had it chilled to the point where it was barely drinkable, perhaps this was the problem? I'll put another one in the fridge now and test it tonight. It was frothy mainly, you could see the fizz going...

Taste was pretty good actually so I can't say it was an infection. I've not had an infection before so I couldn't rightly say but the word on the street is that when you do have an infection you'd know about it! I use electronic scales to measure the dextrose for bulk priming too so I don't...

Sorry, IE hung without confimation of the post and so I hit refresh four times before realising. Classic mistake, never do it with online payments! I've asked the mod to delete the other posts. Couldn't see how to do it myself. Any ideas?

FG 1016. It had been in the fermentor then racked to 2ndry over the period of about 5 weeks maintained at a temp of 12c. 1016 seems pretty good to me?

I recently made a German style lager and bulk primed for bottling. I for my ales I usually prime with around 80-90g of dextrose based on around 21 litres, this time I primed with 120g so I could get a little more CO2 life into my lager, by my calculations that's about 2.6 volumes of CO2 which is...

Cheers for the idea and the effort mate but I think the always on approach isn't quite what I had in mind. Looks like the tempmate is what I need which has the smarts to switch off and wait patiently for either heat or chill to kick in and maintain temp range. Thanks everyone.

I've got a Mash Master FridgeMate to regulate my fermentation temps, it's bloody brilliant, however I have one gripe with it and wondered if any of you can help? You see the FridgeMate can be set to power on to drop and maintain a temp (ie power on the fridge) or it can be set to power on and...

Aside from the recipe database here on AHB I was looking for other sites which have the same concept, recipes in various categories with user voted rankings. Know of any?

Does Finings work the same way as Isengard? :) As in, the same steps and chill are fine?

Hi there, I'm making a Gluten Free Pale Ale beer from a Brewers Choice kit. To make it free from Gluten a liquid Sorghum syrup is used but there is a large amount of sediment created from this. To help clear it up a finings sachel is included. I'm racking to a secondary to reduce sediment and...

I used 130g of Crystal 140 grain and 40g of Munich malt grain in 2ltr of water. Think I should be safe?

As the title suggests I was steeping a relatively small amount of grains for 30 mins when I noticed part way through that it had been boiling. Not very violently but still a boil, not very long either perhaps 5 mins, 10 mins max. Now I know it's BAD to let the steeping grains boil but being my...

What's the volume of water I boil all the hops in CityMorgue2?

Can you just clear up youre recipe for me a little. Should it look like this?: Use the juice & rind of 4 oranges. 2.5tsp nutmeg. 1.5 tsp cloves. 1tsp mixed spice. 6 cardamon pods crushed. 2 sticks + 1tsp cinnamon. 300g Macadamia Honey Steeped grains. Is this something you can buy from a...