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Hey all, After a hiatus of not brewing for well over a year (have done mainly partial mash beers, plus AG in BIAB and on a Grainfather I used to own) , recently have gotten a new BIAB system to crack back into it :) so first brewday on this system was yesterday. Making a simpleish apa 23L...

Hi all, Decided to sell my Grainfather brewing system. Purchased close to christmas 2014 and only had 3 brews put through it. Works great :) Looking for $850 located Mulbring, Hunter Valley Cheers

Hi all, Hope im not opening a can of worms here. Looking at potentially selling my grandfather system due to the amount of time and how fiddly the system in my opinion is to use. I really want to do full boils and i think biab in an urn would simplify things for me. Just seeing what a typical...

Hi everyone, Just getting stocks ready for xmas, brewed my IPA Wednesday set it at 18 degrees with us05 in my temp controlled freezer. Going great. Yesterday we had a really hot, mid 30 degree day came home yesterday arvo and its sitting on 25. panic stations started and I grabbed some frozwn...

Hi all, This is a shout out to any AHBers that may be going to either one or both festivals. Would be great to put some faces to names :) Im going saturday for bitter and twusted and sunday for warners at the bay. Cheers

Hi everyone. Looking at getting away from the stovetop and really liking the idea of biab in an urn. Any comments on this setup? http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=271241829603&alt=web Cheers

Hi all, I have a mish mash of hops in freezer at the moment and wanted to throw them into a basic partial grain bill I have lying around including Golden promise Light crystal 200g Carapils 100g Ldme Making this one to about 5% abv and 20L I have in hop storage in rough amounts 100g simcoe...

Hey all, planning a bottling/brew day for next weekend. Was wanting to do a citra & cascade combo apa or ipa ever since I tried a local brewpubs ipa at the recent beer festival. I was able to find out it is 6.0% abv and isnt dry hopped. The combo was amazing. Does anyone have any ideas or...

Hi All, just looking for some suggestions on the following I have ordered 1kg LDME 1kg Wheat DME 250gm Light Crystal 100gm Carared 100g Carapils 100g Nelson Sauvin US05 i kind of got carried away a little and blended ingredients from a couple of recipes found on here. I have primarily been...

Hi Guys, wanting to order some ingredients for my dad for his bday, we are gonna do a brew day this weekend, I'm putting down a DSGA although hopped with cascade. I was wanting to get a recipe for an amber, brown or red ale. preferably something that is single hopped (dont mind if its US or UK...

hey guys, im into my 2nd case of Snowy Mountains Crackenback, and have found one of the bottles is half full? have held onto it and have noticed that almost all of them have different fill levels, some full completely, some towards the bottom of the neck. anyways im not a total tightarse, but...

Hi all, another quick question, have my Balrogs Bitter fermenting 3.26 kg LDME 410g Crystal Grain 16g Target @ 60 18g Pilgrim @ 60 10g EKG @ 10 Whirlflock tab @ 10 Safale S-04 pitched Monday 28.09.09 23 litres OG was estimated to be 1.059 and came in at 1.060, so was happy about that has...

Hey all how does this one sound? 1 can coopers IPA 1 can amber LME 250g Carared grain steeped 500g LDME 10g Fuggles @ 15 10g EKG @ 15 10g EKG @ 5 10g Fuggles at flameout just playing around, any constructive criticism completely welcomed

Hey everyone, looking at controlling my ferment temps properly, and have googled Son of fermentation chiller, even looked at the bigger mother of fermentation chiller and was wondering if anyone on the forums have built one of these? or would it be ok just to use a 100 can cooler and some...

Hi All, have a quick question about the brew i did last weekend did dr smurtos golden ale did grain steeping and hop additions correctly, although i put both the Malt Extract and grain liquid and tin of goop in a brought to boil/hot break and then did hop additions. Will this ruin it?

Hi All, have finally put down another brew after a while of not brewing, at the brother in laws house (his first time brew) anyways here are the specs 1.5kg Tin Morgans Amber Ale 1kg tin Coopers Light Malt Extract pitched morgans kit yeast but it didnt start (dropped to the bottom, so pitched...

Hi All, just wondering if anyone has a kits and bits recipe for a Tooheys Old Clone? Cheers

Hi All, New brewer here, just checked my brew this morning, has been in primary fermentation for approx 2 weeks, no airlock activity for a couple of days, although hydro test reads 1.014, am i ready to bottle? by the way used Tooheys Dark Ale Tin with 1kg liquid brewing sugar and yeast that...