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I cannot understand why kit brewers try to emulate brewery beers I.E. little creatures pale, james squires amber etc. The only way for a kit brewer to even get close to these truly is by ditching the kit. Kit beers are hopped malt extract, most commercial breweries and manufacturers of kits use...

Just a bit of a call to see how many amateurs are going to look at entering the vicbrew amateurs and if so what they will be going in with. Personally I want to be there in october and have a cracker APA and a nice porter as well. Will be my first year there, would like to get through to the...

Just did another big batch of my locally renowned APA. 300 litres this time, should keep me kegs full for a little while. I still haven't gotten around to building the setup to do batches that big all grain yet, but Coopers are still making a good pale extract that you can buy in bulk. took 56...

Just put down my first mega brew. Normally I brew all grains but at the moment I dont have the equipment to do more than a standard size all grain so I stooped to brewing an extract. It comprises 28 kgs of black fern lager malt (yes you can buy that much in a tin) 300 grams of chinook, 100...

just thought I would put this one out there to see how many different responses I would get on the subject. personally I aerate for around an hour to an hour and a half and generally start after the wort has cooled to around 40 degrees. Seems to work, My current brew has gone from 1.052 to 1.010...

does anyone have any hops in victoria I can steal some rhizomes from. Would like columbus, northern brewer, nelson sauvin, simcoe, willamette, green bullet, amarillo, chinook and basically any more I can get my hands on. (any of the above would be nice.)

does anybody brew a dog bolter? has it been given a different name now days or what is the go? The dog bolters I used to brew and drink were a kind of brown ale with mild hopping, not as amber/orange as most ambers and sort of darker than newcastle brown. I have seen no mention of them anywhere...

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does any body know who would stock one and rough price etc. :ph34r: I am looking at doing some larger batches and if i am to be doing lagers I will need to be able to chill them.