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Who let Bob Down into the qld conference dinner? This guy sucks ass!

Wow you guys that have immersion heaters must be living in a different country were electricity is cheap! Very happy with my Italian Spiral +1

Hi all, I'd been keen to be involved and we Boonah boys will see if we can get a car pool happening. We were going to start a Boonah Regional club. Luke on here floated the name BRALE (Boonah Regional Ale and Lager Enthusiasts), but heck might just be easier to get in with the Ipswich...

Save yourself some trouble and get Beersmith2. Brad has included full support for BIAB as well as heaps of other features that I'm guessing would take you ages to develop yourself. Considering the support Brad gives to acknowledge Aussie brewers and this forum in particular, we should all get in...

Hi all, another water question for those you that adjust water and use five star 5.2. If you adjust your water with salts is their any value in adding 5.2 also, or can this be detrimental? I know that 5.2 lowers pH and for this reason I left it out of a recent AG stout recipe I recently...

Thanks warra48. Thats the answer I was hopping for. I also you Beersmith for salt additions makes it so easy. Brett

Hi all, starting to have a go at brewing salts additions to adjust my water to take my brewing to the next level. Beersmith2 makes this process very easy, and does all the maths and chem for me. I have heard a few people on this forum say that rainwater is pretty close to 0 as far as...

Hi Paul, great to hear this works for you. I can see that it may be great for low hopped & darker beers (ie non-lager), however I still have great sceptism that the DMS issues mostly found in lagers and changes in hop utilisation especially on late or flame out hops. Also may be that...

Hi Nick, I did similar and placed some solo lights to the base of the plant. Second years crop was greay over 100gms of Casade very happy big cones great smell. Seems that keeping first year yeild expectations low is the key. Brett

Hi all, Im gonna start a controversial topic which not doubt all will have an opinion on, Brewing and maintaining good health and wellbeing I love my brewing, love the culture of brewers, love the technical side and craft of creating a great craft beer. However I am...

Hi gjn200, it sound from your post that youre after strategies to improve your beer quality. I could be wrong. If this is the case then my priorities would the following: 1. Temperature controlled fermentation ie ales at 18c and lagers 10-12 this by far makes the biggest...

Anyone else got thoughts on extended contact time on the yeast cake post fermentation to accelerate ripening of the beer??

Sean, I would agree with the other guys on the forum. When brewing a lager you need about double the number of cells as they need to do the job at a lower temp. I recently did a Munich Helles with s-23 lager yeast pitched two packets of re-hydrated yeast. I have been experiementing...

Well done Darren! First time is always a bit tricky. Hope seeing my AG set up in action helped on the day. Watch out here come the Fassifern AG brewers, we now have two! Bretto Boonah, QLD

Thanks Snow, got me thinking. Maybe I'm too eager to rack to early. Brett

Hi Ross, Wondering if you have any info on Brisbane water specs or any ideas what our rainwater is likely to be so we can have a better idea exactly how much 5.2 we need to add? Cheers Brett

Hi BribeG, I'm curious what diffrence you are getting with your 90min mash. My efficiency is about 70% with a 60min mash, would definately go longer as would be nice to get it closer to 75%. Your thoughts?

Hi all, thanks for all the comments. This has certainly evolved into a dispensing issue which is interesting but was not my original intent. I both keg and bottle but to be honest have been much less impressed with my bottles particuarly how they carb but this could be my bulk priming...