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I've discovered that there are quite a few cases at Yowie Bay Cellars that the owner wants rid of. It seems they don't sell real well and are taking up space so I've picked up a case of the IPA for $50 which it appears is the wholesale price (no wonder he can't shift them if they cost that...

As some of you might have seen, the Australian Heritage Hotel at the Rocks in Sydney is having their Beer Festival this Saturday and Sunday. A few of us took part last year and put together a stand, we gave out samples and talked to people about brewing their own etc. It's on again but for a...

So, here I am with my Ross-Inspired filter. I only use it infrequently, when the beer needs it for presentation or I've managed to make far too much haze. I was going to filter just one beer I had in the fridge, but what the heck - If I'm going to all the trouble of sanitising it, charging it...

Mark, aka TDA asked about my Wheat recipe so here goes. I hope this is nice if anybody else makes it, I bloodywell enjoy this style (SWMBO thinks I enjoy it just a little bit too much! It's a partial mash and relatively easy I suppose. the key thing is of course the yeast. The mash needs a...

I've been noticing that a few of the newer bars always rinse their glasses on a nice little semi-automatic washer thingy immediately before pouring beer into them. Seen this at Belgium Beer Bar, James Squire (King St) and at St Arnou in Melb. Seems to apply no matter what the beer style is. Is...

I regularly knock up a batch of GMK's Aust draught using a kit, light malt, SafAle yeast and dry hopping with some Hallertau. The hops tend to make it a bit floral/spicy but I really like that. I ferment in primary for about a week and then rack into sec' for about 10 days. The only slight...

On the 1st friday of the month, the Nag's Head Hotel in Glebe (St John's Rd) has some special brews available. Last month there was an Amber Ale and a Christmas Pudding Stout (by all accounts it really tasted of the pudding????). So far I think there's about 4 of us intending to go nect month...

Folks, I've got my new kegs all running happily, indeed we've already knocked off two of them. A couple of things have come to mind though:- 1/ Do you allow your beer to condition in the keg for quite a few weeks, as we do for bottles? I just have a feeling that one of my brews tasted fairly...

Well folks, after much soul searching and penny pinching I've just started out on the next adventure in my brewing story - I've just gone out and purchased two kegs and all the paraphenalia to go with it. I thought that I might keep you all up to date with the progress over the next few weeks...

I have made some shockers in the past (hopefully all behind me know with everybody's help from here) including a couple of brews that were over-primed to blazes. Whenever I'd open them I'd get a gusher out of the neck of the bottle and have to nigh on freeze it to get a half decent amount in...

I had the opportunity to get over to Perth again last week and this time managed to try a couple of the local brews at the Como hotel. Damn nice place and about 10 non-megaswill brews on tap. There was an IPA from Sail & Anchor (?) that was very nice and probably a good example of the type...

I'm over in Perth on business this coming week (and don't get back until late Friday night so I'm going to miss the Ale Night at the Nag's Head) :angry: As a few of the forum members are from that neck of the woods, and I'm going to hopefully get a few hours to myself, what would be your...

Folks, There has been just a little bit of discussion here previously about extracting yeast from certain commercial beers and I wonder if anybody can expand upon the theme. In particular I've taken a great liking to the MSB Colonial Wheat Beer and have made up a couple of kit attempts at...

I recently put down two brews of exactly (at least IMHO) of the same kit and the results were outstandingly different, although interestingly both seemed to be well appreciated by the freeloaders. I used one of the Australian Bitter packs from Morgans together with a Brew Booster in both. I was...

Folks, I am hoping somebody can shed some light on the vararies of wheat beer! Now I've tried a few Kits ( yes - forgive me for being such a greenhorn at all of this) including the Blackrock, but I really can't seem to get anything approaching what I'd like. I would like to to have something...