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has any body tried using any of this in a sour beer? http://www.ibrew.com.au/collections/grape-concentrates i was thinking of adding one litre of the Shiraz concentrate into a sour based on the rare barrels golden recipe im fermenting atm on yeast bays melange yeast.

first off i have done a search ffs but cant find an answer anywhere even though i know its been discussed before. im looking for a seal kit for one of my 525ss taps because the o rings are shagged out completely. so far i cant find an aussie supplier for them so would like to know if there is...

my old man and myself have a bit of a weird beer brewoff once in a while and thought tis time we would go with a carrot beer. just after poeples thoughts on how this looks so far. plan is to grate up a kilo of carrots and and boil berfore adding to the mash and thinking if not carroty enough to...

just looking for some advice on where i am at on my first sour beer. at the moment it is six months old and etremely clear and with no pellicle. in had a sample from the wine thief a couple of weeks back and it has very low body a slight brett funk but close to zero sourness. i used 60/30...

i was at the hbs on the way home tonight and started to look at the glass carboys they have with taps in the bottom of them. does any one here have any experiance with these, as i was thining they would be better for aging my funky beers in than standard carboys because i could take a small...

hi all, i have scored a ten kilo bag of cornflakes and decided to do a brew with what i have laying around. just looking for any opinions on the recipe i have just knocked up on beersmith. it will be going straight onto a yeast cake from an octoberfest i have just finished. Brewer: dwayne Asst...

hi all , the other day i tryed to do my first sour mash and put simply i fucked up royaly. situation so far is that i mashed my grist for a berlinner at 35c BEFORE my sach rest.thought id read enough but obviosly did not. needless to say the next day when i tried to do a sach rest i got no...

i have just cooked the hefe pancakes out of this months byo and theyre absolutly fantastic. cooked them with all the trimmings from the mag and my 8yo son and i loved them.i cant wait for sean paxtons cook book to come out so i can try a few more recipes out. i have cooked a few off his website...

hi all, i have brewing biab on my rig for 2 years and had my effiancy nailed down to 70% every time. a few weeks ago i bought a med pressure reg(been using a low pressure one) and now on the last 4 brews i have hit 85% each time. i have adjusted water to hit the same final volume with the more...

hey guys ive got a recipe planned for my brother to do as his first brew.im thinkinking as he likes pommy styles id do a light and easy summer style ale for him.any comments on how this looks will be apreciated. BeerSmith Recipe Printout - http://www.beersmith.com Recipe: summer ale Brewer...

so what special beers are poeple drinking for the big day/eve? to start with tonight im having a mikkeler 1000 ibu, and following up with my latest saison, tomorrow will most likely have a couple of wild things with chrissy dinner and just may crack my bottle of 97 henshke hill of grace. any way...

i was in tassie on the weekend and did the tour at moo brew. when talking with the brewer at the end of the tour he mentioned that they do every thing with gravity because they believe that a pump would bruise the beer. just wondering if anyone else had ever heard of the concept before and what...

just thinking about doing an american wheat sorta beer at the moment, probably 60% jw ale/ 40 wheat malt with a 60 min charge of centenial at around 20 ibu and 20 grams or so cascade cube hopped. also thinking about using recultured coopers yeast in it. has any one tried some thing similar or...

hey guys, im just making my first mead now and its tasting good. but i drank a bottle of mead tonight i brought back from tassie and while i prefer the flavour of mine the mead i brought back with me had a much nicer mouthfeel. mine is extremely thin were the bought one has a thcker mouthfeel...

hey guys just after opinions on what to do with my chocolate porter. it started at 1059 and has now stopped dead at 1020. first i raised temp a degree a day up to 23,started at 19.then swirled for a day or two.then i stirred it right up from the bottom of the fermenter and ive racked yesterday...

hi guys. my first brett beer has just finished fermenting(pellicle is dropping anyway), now i would like some advice on priming it. it is the orval clone from jamils book and started a bit higher on the og,i got better effiency than usual,but now im not sure on the priming level. should i prime...

easter nats in melbourne has been called off because,well bob jane is bob jane,but if we can get 40 plus entrants interested in going to heathcote we may still have a weekend of fun.if we can get 40+ entrants interested then heathcote is happy to open the track for the weekend.atm it is a...

ive been getting into the sours lately. last week i got a slab of rodenbach grand cru for 40 bucks and a mate and myself got through it in one night(slightly braging,how cheap they were that is).now id like to do a sour sour using biab. im just wondering how to do the turbid mash and pull it...

hey guys , i just got some cans of canadian blonde for 5 bucks with 18 months left on the use by date. now i normally do biab but when i seen these the tight arse in me came out and i had to get em. the problem is i have no idea what to do with them . i was thinking of an apa with a kg of malt...

i dont know if this happens to any one else, but when i mix my starsan i only get about 5 mins out of it before it goes cloudy. the strange thing is if i use iodophor it seems to last forever without losing color and when i use starsan at my parents place it keeps clear for ages to. i admittadly...