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Hi Guys, Well its that time of again where we have our last meeting for the year on Thursday 24th November at Lynndon Bowls Club, Galsworthy Street, Holland Park, Qld. The evening will be a social night with no mini comp. Weve also given Harry the night off so bring a plate of food why...

No. Not unless you have a very accurate lathe as if you were to slightly mis-sahpe the shaft you may as well chuck the whole roller away.

Bribie, be careful with those infra red thermometers. I've been using a $300 Raytech unit that has served me well for the past 3 years - with exception to my last 7 ales. I would use it to read a scoop of mash from the bottom of the tun and when I started to get some strange results, like final...

I'm on my third one. Broke two within a batch of each other about two years ago, but had a good run since. It was lucky that I started with three of them but I don't have a spare anymore either

I have used an exposed element Birco for about 100 brews now as the kettle and the best cleaner I have come across to keep the element nice is to make sure it gets a hit of PBW at the end of each brew day (which could be up to three brews) and then about once every 10 brews I spray the inside...

Hi Guys, Just a reminder that this months Brisbane Amateur Beer Brewers (BABBs) meeting will be held this Thursday (it's one of those 5 Thursday months so don't come next Thursday or you'll miss out) September 22nd, 2011 at Lynndon Bowls Club, Galsworthy Street, Holland Park, Qld. Arrive...

The full results will be in the next newsletter but I'll check to see if we can have them posted on the BABBS site too.

Nice one, thanks for that tidbit of info mate - I'm def looking forward to giving it a crack tomorrow evening!

I can ferment up to four beers at a time (at a stretch). I was hoping to do a German Pilsner for the bbq but that is out the window considering the time. And I keg and force carb. I've got a Sierra Nevada clone that will be ready to keg around Tuesday / Wednesday next week, but that really needs...

I hadn't even thought of an American Wheat - sweet, thanks for that as it's been a couple of years since I punched one out but I do recall it was tasty.

Hi Guys, So I thought I had a couple of weeks to get a beer or three ready for a BBQ but as it turns out it is on Saturday 3rd September - so I have 9 days to brew, ferment and carb a couple of beers. Any sugestions for some decent Ale recipes that are OK with zero time to age?

Yes, most certainly. Entries can be dropped off for the QABC at the meeting alternatively Saturday 1pm is the last day they can be dropped off at the shop.

No - the element is designed to be fitted on the inside of a "kettle" so when it comes to a tri-clover fitting it needs to be fitted to the outside (I can provide photos if you would like further clarification). Drilling and welding were free. I could have and should have done them myself...

I buy another one and attach another 5.50 tri-clove blank to it... no biggie there really...

I've got one of the Brewershardware.com RIMS tubes too and I took a slightly different approach. I had a tri clover blank cap drilled and had the cartridge element from Ross welded to it: Does the trick nicely

I can't comment on the mybeershop ones but I can tell you the Celli taps are fantastic and in my opinion money well spent. Are they going to give you three times the performance of the other taps - probably not, but then again is a Toyota SR5 three times the vehicle that a Great Wall ute is...

Haha I made the mistake of working out what I have spent on my equipemnt and tools I've purchased to help me build my equipment - I burnt that piece of paper pretty quick so Nat didn't find it =)

I guess when it comes down to it I'm not really all that bothered if I make soemthing and it costs me twice as much as if I had bought it. Part of the hobby for me is making the tools to make the beer with little to no concequence to the time or $$ involved - I guess that's why I bought a...

Well I do work in marketing so I have an evolved way with words =)

Funny you should mention that as I was wondering why fermentors are round and not square... is that just a cleaning thing or is there some science to it like the even distribtution of ambient temperature to the fermenter etc... ?