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Hello fellow brewers!! Up for sale/swap/beer is my Coopers bottle collection. All of them are in fantastic condition, cleaned, no labels. Crown seals, thick glass. I have made some brilliant batches in these babies and they have so much more life left in them, but I no longer have a need for...

Hi Brewers, I'm moving house, my meticulously kept beer brewing bottle collection must go. They are all 375ml, cascade light bottles. Glass is thick, never any bottle bombs or leakages. I've always used a proper capper. Kept very clean, labels removed. Very handy to have all your bottles the...

Hello All, Here is a sad story from a fellow brewer. Quite an interesting read. I dont know the man, but I wish him well in his brewing endeavours. Hopefully brewing can bring him a little happiness before the terrible disease slowly takes his life away...

Hi Dudes, Woolies has my 2kg "fav soaker/napisan/sod perc" on half price this week for $5.74, bargain, it doesnt happen often, so snap it up lads. This is my stock standard soaker, I love it, works a treat with all my brewing gear, no scent, strong of sodium perc (34%). Use it for heaps of...

Hey Fellas, some fun friday night reading, might have been covered here in AHB before?? A scientist extracted 45mil year old yeast from a lebanese weevil stuck in amber!!! Then, OF COURSE, he made beer with it... See story at this link...

Hi All, I have been to two woolies tonight, Lane Cove and Norbrik(Norwest, Baulko Hills) and they had clearance specials on the entire home brew range. The specials werent that great, just a few dollars off, I was hoping it'd be half price :) Anyway... I wonder if woolies are deleting the...

Guys, Is this a hop vine? The one on the right! The one on the left is POR and looks like all the other pics of POR on the web/AHB.....BUT.....is this thing on the right a hop vine? Chinook? The rhizome sure looked like a hop vine. I very generous brewer from AHB gave the POR and...

Hi Guys, I just bought a new 33L Willow esky from Woolies. On special for $24.99....($15 off i think) i assume it is at all woolies but I dont really know. I bought it at the Norwest Circa Woolies (NSW). There is ONE left :) From the looks of the other thread here, 33L is more than enough for...

Hi Guys.... Just wanted to share. I bought these scales off ebay and I am really happy with them. (about $11 delivered to my door....within about 10 days or so.....bargain)...no affiliation at all, just a happy buyer. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Portable-Electronic...2-/220644685747 They measure...

Hi All, I have searched and searched on AHB and the net, trying to find some commercial beers that either primarily use cascade or solely use cascade hops. I cant find any.... I believe the cascade premium lager from tassie uses hersbruckers, not cascade as I thought its name might suggest...

Hi Guys, Another bit of acquired gear that has come my way (as pictured below). An Avent Steam Steriliser that is used for baby bottles etc. I thought this might be handy for brew day and bottling day when there are little bits here and there that you want to be sanitary. Eg fermenter taps...

Hi All, I have tried out Goatherder's Pseudo Bulk Priming method earlier this week. I have to say I think it is a good balance between SOME of the advantages bulk priming and just simply dry priming. Really it is dry priming but with a wet solution.. :) Regardless, I am a fan. I have tried...

Hello All, I bought a 20L willow container and it came with a bung (as pictured....bad pic sorry) that fits in where the tap screws in. These things are very handy. I havent had one of these before and they are great for when soaking/storing fermenters/cubes etc I have been looking around to...

Hi Guys, Would anyone care to comment on using sugar soap to clean brewing gear? It "seems" from the research that I am doing that Sugar Soap has the same active ingredient as Pink Stain Remover, which is Tri Sodium Phospate? I have used PSR quite a few times and it seems to be pretty good...

Hi Guys (sorry if anyone thought I am giving away a free urn - I just got a free urn..but now that I have your attention :lol: ) I got this ZIP 10 LITRE Urn the other day (pictured), a friend gave it to me who was going to chuck it. It was cruddy inside. Nothing an overnight soak with some...

Hi Guys, Was over at Dad's today, we use to brew together over a decade ago. Now its just me brewing, started up again in the last 1-2 years. Anyway, we found 15 x 1kg dex in bags in the basement which we had forgot about. We bought a bulk buy, 25kg and divided this into 1kg bags, sealed and...

Hello All, I found (somewhere here I think) a beersmith file (.bsm) that had all the coopers kits which I could add to beersmith. I am wondering does anyone know of any other .bsm files for other branded kits, eg Black Rock, Muntons, whatever else there is. I'd love to get my hands on them...

Hello AHB'ers! Recently I have been making practice yeast starters (never done it before, saved some 514 yeast from a recent brew) and its easy peasy. Getting ready for a killer lager (pitching @ 11deg) and I want to get my yeast starting skills spot on. However I am starting to churn thru my...

Hi All, Going to brew a light golden coloured German/Austrian Lager. Kinda like Bitburger beer. I am stuck (pardon the pun) on what yeast to use. I am almost certain to use the White Labs German Bock Lager WLP833, but I am thinking maybe going the German Lager Yeast WLP830 OR the Pilsner...

Hopefully no one from AHB?? They must have been planning some serious brewing A real cold case: 100 fridges 'stolen' http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/a-real-cold-case...00309-pue5.html A man has been charged over the theft of almost 100 fridges worth $150,000 from Sydney's south-west. Police...