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Hi everyone.. I have made several brews using a cheap 28l Eski and a piece of Swiss Violle material not even fashioned into a bag. I would just lay the material into the Eski and wrap a piece of elastic around the outside of the eski. I would mash 4kg in about 14 lt of water then after an hour...

I am wondering what to do about the 2nd glass (the 2nd pour) of a 750m bottle being yeasty sludge. I sometimes pour into 2 glasses (I use 425m glasses) and put one in the fridge whilst working through the other.. By the time I get to the 2nd it is flat and unappealing. I have lots of 750m...

I am a primitive guy and have pyromaniacal tendancies.. Winter is long and cold in Bathurst so I love to burn stuff.. I am currently doing split boils on my gas stove using of those 19ltr Big-W pots (a fairly thin SS).. I am thinking about using an outside fire (maybe remove the chimnea off my...

I am new to AG and am thinking of starting out basic in terms of everything.. I am using BIAB principles and I am brewing half size batches.. I am wondering what people think about just using one base grain - in this case JW ale malt and one hop - in this case galaxy as 60 - 15 - 5 min...

"Sorry mate, I could but then Id have to kill you. It is a true lager strain though. Cheers, Frank." Why would they not tell us ? Do you think there is some confidentiality clause with Fermentis ? Or is it just "intellectual property" Or maybe it is just the ale 514 equivilent - 497..

I tried dry hopping a single POR pellet per bottle to see what POR tasted like dry hopped since it is so maligned. Anyways I only did 6 bottles from the batch. Every one is a volcano (way overprimed) while the rest of the batch is fine. Do more scientific of us have any ideas what why ? I have...

Has anyone ever used one of these ? The sell them at Big W and Coles for just over $5 a pop..They seem like they are just a liquid version of dextrose to me.. Is that right ?

I am brewing various Coopers Original kits (Real Ale, Dark Ale & Stout).. I AM starting to steep grains and add better malts etc.. The next frontier seems to be yeast.. The $$$s are a little tight so I see Safbrew S-33 going cheap and am wondering if this will be a significant improvment to the...