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There's already considerable murmurings throughout AHB regarding ANZAC Day, so how about a thread specific to what it means to members, so as to avoid Off-topic rants? Unlike Christmas/Easter etc where there are alternate 'meanings' behind the occasion not specific to the origin of...

The missuz picked up a Brewcraft Belgian Ale can the other day, and I want to use this to make a beer with a kick. I'm aiming for around 7% ABV, and wonder if there's anything specific that I need to be mindful of - such as adding yest in stages or allowing the first pitch to do the work...

With such a wide range of guys & girls out there ini the brewing community, I wonder if there are any pigment enthusiasts among us. Whilst the artform has seen a resurgence in recent years, I'm sure there are plenty of people that are probably getting themselved 'scarred for life' a little too...

I'm in the process of culling & editing photographs from a recent holiday, and have almost a hundred frames (froma pool of about four hundred) that I have resized. I'm now going through the process of balancing the colours, contract etc, and when I am done with each, I am applying a series of...

Anyone else going to see Australia vs Uzbekistan Asian qualifier tonight for our chance to once again grace the world stage at the FIFA World Cup next year in South Africa ? Keep an eye out for me ! If it wasn't such miserable weather I was planning on doing a half-time streak ! :lol:

I brewed an ale in the style of JSGA recently and after a couple of months it's a damn fine drop, actually better than the beer that inspired it's inception. However it's slightly on the thick side, and seems a bit syrup-like - that's the best I can describe it. Any ideas what the reason for...

Having returned on Tuesday from a three week jaunt in Laos & Malaysia, it seems that there's been some controversy betwixt one of our community's favorite sons & one of our well-spoken antagonists. I'm sure many of you got the PM from the former, which included the now-deleted ultimatum. Yet it...

Hi All, Can anyone suggest a media player other than Windows Media ? I'm having serious processing issues at the moment which are in part attributed to VMP, so plan to uninstall it tonight after road-testing some other options. iTunes is OK, but it's really slow to boot up, and re-indexing...

I've got my name on a couple of paid market research lists, and although I haven't been called up for many (two in two years!), I was called upon a few weeks ago for one concerning beer. How could I refuse, I thought, they were paying me $100 cash to spend 1.5 hours giving feedback and hopefully...

I'm presently doing a Squire GA inspired brew, and after around 8 days in primary I tapped a sample for the purposes of reading the gravity. What I found was that the test-tube sample was very, very cloudy - more than any beer Ive experienced. It was not unlike the look of refrigerated honey (or...

The question was asked elsewhere: "What does Australia Day mean to you?" It's a good question. To many people, it's just another day off work, often a long weekend if the calander is aligned as such. It may be an echo of the xmas debate, where less people are inclined to view the origin of the...

Hi all, happy public holiday ! In seeking a more readily available bulk sanitising solution (ie stuff from the supermarket) I just picked up a tub of nappy soak powder, which is a generic branded sodium percarbonate. Is this OK for giving the fermenter/taps/hoses etc a quick scrub with? I read...

So has anyone else noticed Tony's new sig ? That's some sweet booty, yea? It might have been inspired (and thankfully evolved) by the Grandma's bum image from a couple days ago...... I know which one I would caress (theory of course, my SWMBO has a much better ass than No. 1!). Should I...

More inconsistencies in the Microsoft O/S - hope someone can help. When viewing a file of photos (in .jpg mostly), sometimes they can be viewed with what's called 'filmstrip' and allows the user to left/right arrow through each pic and be presented with a decent-sized preview of the image...

Hi All, I'm doing a Golden Ale extract today, and punching the ingredients into Beersmith. The results are 1.5kg wheat malt lme + 1.5kg pale barley malt lme = extimated OG 1.041, estimated FG 1.011 = 3.9% ABV Im obviously going to have to add some dry malt extract to get the ABV up to...

Inspired by a recent thread where an off-the-cuff comment stating that I don't celebrate christmas brought about a few barbed comments, I thought it may be timely to create this thread in order to bring some sort of clarity to the forthcoming ritual that most members will be taking part in...

Later today I will be starting a kit cider, which will eventually become raspberry-infused. I think I must have read just about every post relating to raspberry ale on the forums, and it would be fair to say that the best results are going to be from the fruit & juice addition in secondary. The...

After brewing a great wheat beer a few weeks ago (of which all the evidence has been destroyed!), and the reality that another two batches presently in the house prebably wont be conditioned for quite a while (one taste like crap right now, the other is still in secondary) I plan on putting...

So I thought I had better get my head around Beersmith, as it's only got three days until expiry. And among other things I'm stuck on the concept of using specialty grains such as crystal malt. All the information available from one of the two HBS I would likely buy from are all giving figures...

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