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Gents, I went down to my local bottle shop last night (Yarraville Cellers) which fortunately specialise in micro brew beers! I found the Jamesons Raspberry ale and rushed home to throw it in the fridge for a little bit as i had been wanting to brew a raspberry ale myself. After an hour or so...

Gents, Sorry for the amature question - i searched but couldn't find this question asked before. If i'm making 2 kits in one fermenter, does one use both sachets of yeast? does that also mean that i would be adding something like 2 kg of malt / dex??? if not more? Will this take longer to...

Gents, I was in my local HBS on saturday to buy some pipe to transfer my beer from primary to secondary fermenters. They recommended i buy a syphon and do it that way. So i syphoned from first to second and had to run the beer down the wall of the fermenter as the hose was too short. I tried...

Gents, So here's the deal - I have just picked up a muntons IPA that i am so excited about it. (even though i won't be able to drink it for some time) I was recently out at Bridge road brewery in Beechworth - they have an IPA that is sensational! I also got some extra cascade hops (6.3%) - i...

Hi all, I a newbie and need some advice. I currently have a morgans golden saaz pilsner kit fermenting. I added 1kg blend of 25% glu, corn, light malt, dark malt and the yeast that came with the kit. Started with a SG of approx 1042 and has been on the go now for 6 days. sitting currently...

Hi all, I'm hading out to buy some new bottles but i have one dialemma - Twist or flip top? I was wondering if anyone knew if there was any down sides to bottling in twist top bottles? Do they enable you to get the same seal as regular "flip top" bottles? Your thoughts are much appreciated, Pete