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Give the tea-bags a big miss. Most of it is just tea that either has been stored with some mint so that it absorbs the flavour and fragrance or with a small amount of mint tossed in with ordinary but very low grade tea. After all, it's a good way to get rid of the tea someone has grown and...

Scary stuff, but glad to hear you weren't hit. It's kinda one of the top ten reasons I take a break from brewing for most of January. That, and catching up on drinking what I made while I'm on holidays. :) Cheers - Fermented.

Update: Trip is delayed until mid to late March. A couple of the people I need to meet won't be available during January. After that, the lead up to Chinese New Year and there's no point being there then as the prices go quite high, just like Christmas here. It's usually maddeningly crowded...

Bleach is great for killing things, but as a cleaning agent it's a bit limited. I don't know what else you used for cleaning, but if you can use some caustic based cleaning agent (either the pink powder or a dish washing detergent powder at 10 g into two litres of hot water) and coat all...

Five to seven days in the fermenter and a month in the bottle and it will be OK. Driving it down to 20C with the yeast already in play will make things a bit messy in my experience if you're using the Cooper's gear. If you pitch when the wort is too warm but immerse the fermenter in a nice...

Or just use a couple of cotton bud ear cleaner thingies soaked in your no-rinse solution to give it a good clean... kinda like BribieG's method but cheaper and disposable and far less environmentally friendly. :) Cheers - Fermented.

Nah - just a bloke who has spent too much time on the road and has gone native somewhere along the way. You spend enough time in a place and you end up being part of it. Bring it home and maybe it makes a couple of fellow beer-makers a wee bit happier. :D Excellent! Where did you stay / are you...

I will look into taps too. I don't like my chances too much. Nonetheless, it is on the list. However... They're not that popular in China as most pubs deliver beer by the dozen (gal bucket with ten x 330 mls, yes - it's ten to the dozen lately) to the table. Beer on tap is still seen to be...

If the market was that good, then the forum sponsors and other merchants would already be on it. I'm not interested in disrupting their business - that's a shxtty thing to do. Biz is tough enough down here without some cowboy messing up things. I would be well pxssed at someone playing in my...

It is correct - there is no bulk buy at the moment, it's merely a call for a list of what you want that I can find while I am up there on a business trip. There is no commitment by anyone to any item at this stage. It's a wishlist. If I can find what you want, at a quality and safety level...

http://freshballs.com/ Oh dear. Cheers - Fermented.

You're right about many companies having factories there. Mostly, they're contract manufacturers of exceedingly large scale with 3000+ workers housed in dormitories and who only go home a couple of times per year. It's really very much like the early industrial revolution up there. The main...

'Morning! First up - WOW! What a response. I didn't expect that so many would put up their hand. OK - onto the goods: Different region. There may be sellers in Shenzhen, but I would have doubts about quality as it's a long way south from where the hops in the China Buy were sourced...

Yes, of course, you're correct. The main intent of pointing out FG as being important in this case is to know when the fermentation is complete and avoid ye goode olde bottle bombs and gushers. In simple K&K, K&B, etc OG is a great reference to know / confirm the effects of what was added to...

If you stick to the instructions that come under the lid, then you will be fine. Try to get the temp closer to 20C. 24+ is too hot and will give some pretty ordinary or just plain bad results. I think they recommend two litres of boiling or four litres of hot tap water to dissolve the can of...

I greased the balcony rail with some axle grease earlier in the year to discourage the possums. It worked. A few greasy paw prints in it and no more molestation. I would rather like to see the fxcker's face if it ever bit a Bhut or a Seven. :) The Bhuts took off last night and this morning...

You should be OK. The scale is linear. However, now you know it's time to go get a nice glass one with a larger scale. Don't worry too much about the OG. Focus on the FG as that's where the action is if you're a bottling man. Cheers - Fermented.

Mixing up the completed ferment isn't a good idea. All your work to cold condition would be then wasted. How did you prime the bottles? Dextrose? Carb drops? Other? Cheers - Fermented.

I think I would rather fart than use dry enzyme. :) Cheers - Fermented.

That would be 20C for most product out here, in my experience. However, back to the OP... Getting your temp down can be as easy as popping the fermenter into the laundry tub with a couple of Coke bottles filled with water and frozen, changing them daily. There are some other low-tech, low-$...