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hey guys has anyone re-gassed and used commercial 50ltr CUB kegs (legal ones of course). i have 4 and heard you can re-gas them? how clean will they get if i cleaned then also can the seals be replaced easily? Willis

hi guys. got gunk in my plastic fermenter taps. does anyone know how to dismantle one without braking it? also is there an easier way to have a tap that dismantles easy? Willis

hey guys. Gonna try my first cider. was wondering how much sugar should be in the cider as a average? cause i got 22 litres of apple juice which is a total of 200.2 gms of sugar. also what difference would it be using s-05 instead of s-04? it will be dry and bitter so am going to but in some...

hey guys. just tasted my carlsberg clone that i made (been 2 weeks conditioning in bottle). i think i might have bottled a little early, tastes a tiny bit yeasty, but has a real bitter taste, on the verge of being to bitter. would the bitterness be caused by an infection? thanks Willis

hey guys. is there an easy way of working out mash efficiency in metric? i have the working of imperial but not metric. can someone please help. Thanks Willis

has anyone else tried the OLD FART beer from the UK( Dan Murphy's sell it) next to the holy Grail or sorry its holy ail? i bought it drunk it, nice, dry alittle bit sweet over tones. but a good beer with a funny name. Thoughts?

hey guys Just tossing up between gas or electric. could you boil a 100 litre pot with eletricty instead of gas? if so would 2 3600 elements do it? Thanks Willis

hey what are the benifits of a march pump over gravity fed? Besides the obvious of getting all if not most of the wort out of the kettle. thanks Willis

hey guys. if i have a 75litre esky that i want to make into a mash tun. What would be the biggest size batch i could make in it? cause i was thinking of getting a 2 of 100 litre pots, on for kettle and one for my HLT. but if 100 litres is too big for my esky i'll donw grade my pots. Thanks Willis

i have had a larger down for the past 5 weeks now. its still going at 12 degs c. when i did my yeast i had no wyeast or saflager yeast so i used the yeast under the lid of a coopers heritage larger. i have bumped it to 15 deg to see if i can kick it along a bit better cause i was told the yeasts...

hey all Is there any Central Coasters (NSW) who do AG? or any Brew clubs that have an open day? If so would you be interested in showing how you do it? cause im interested in getting into AG soonish. When i get all the equipment. Thanks Willis

hi. i tried steeping yesterday for the first time, and read the how to brew book by john j. palmer today. i think i stuff up the steeping. what i did was. got the water to near boiling point put the grains in a steeping bag just to get it into the wort before the full boil. then when the water...

hi. I was making a Chimay Clone yesterday. 2 days before i drunk 3 quarters of the bottle and left the rest for a starter. put in a tsp of malt to get it started. waited till the next day, still no starting foam, nothing just a flat dead malty smelling bottle. tried again. thought it might not...

hey everyone. i'm going to start up a setup for a AG. I have a list of stuff. If you think of anything else i might need please add. 2 x 70 ltr Pots for kettle and HLT. Mill (Ibrew.com.au) Mash Screens for my Mashtun (which i have a Techni ice 75ltr esky) solderless fittings for the pots. big...

hi all this is my first post. so hey everyone. I tried brewing a boags premium with a kit and extract. here is the recipe. 1 Black Rock Lager Kit Brewcraft #60 German Lager Kit converter 500g of light dry malt extract saflager yeast 23 litres brewed at a constant 15 deg celcius for 2 weeks...