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Hey, Looking to grow hops again. Does anyone know of a place/person that sells hop crowns or starter plants? Looking to quicken the process by starting with crowns instead of rhizomes. Thanks!

G’day. For a while now I have been pushing my system (2 vessel HERMS, Keggle w’ 30L cooler) to brew 40L batches by boiling high gravity worts that are then topped up with 8-10 litres of boiled water to bring the OG down to target. I’ve even floated a pot in the BK to top up the first run with...

Hi, I’ve noticed that when I’ve batched primed my bottles that the smaller bottles seem to carbonate faster than the larger bottles. Can anyone confirm this is true? Therefore I’m wondering if volume or dimension of a vessel would also influence conditioning time. Thoughts? Thanks.

Hi, I’m looking to treat my water for an American Pale Ale—primarily to assist in pH, balance between bitterness and malt, as well as provide nutrients for the yeast. I’m based in Melbourne, so have relatively soft water. Burtonized water seems to be excessive in calcium (294ppm) and sulfate...

I'm now past a dozen brews and have noticed that my brew days normally take 5 hours (AG) which conclude with me hosing off my gear at 1am much to my neighbours' delight. I'm thinking about splitting up my brewing over a few nights to make life (and that of the wife's) easier: Day 0: Buy...

Is this mould on top of my beer? I racked my beer for secondary fermentation trying to be as clean as possible. Then increased the temperature of my beer to 22c trying to help finish off the fermentation process as it was a few points higher than I wanted. Then these white snow flake dots...

So I've recently fixed a 10 metre copper coil into my HLT to create a basic HERMS system. I'm now looking to explore how temperature steps can increase the efficiency and improve the characteristics of my wort. Is there any benefit for doing a two step temperature rise that sit at the...

G'day. So I've been typically mashing ~10kg of grain in my 37L cooler. I normally batch sparge, but have recently bought a pump and am keen to fly sparge to increase my efficiency and reduce labour. Being a cooler without a direct heat source I cannot mashout before sparging. Should I: 1./...

I've been steadily sliding down the slippery slop of home brewing and have now reached the stage where I want to buy my malt by the 25kg bags. I'm planning on buying three 25kg bags of malt—plus a few extra kilo bags of specialty malts. What three types should you recommend to buy in bulk...