sorry what did you say? all i can hear is wet fart noises
Says the man that carries an alleigance to another members existence in his post signatures. Bravo, ya (mark) barstard
Smollocks, your post #30 is very informative, and I give you a hundred heartfelt thank you's. If there's no need for the 'bling' when approaching AG brewing, and no discernable end-result factors in efficiency, then I should well be looking into BIAB. And, as Katie stated, I live in a cave, so the limited space reality is probably not conducive towards "brewhaus" status.... (ok, I should add that I'm in a 3 bedroom apartment, each room is huge,the kitchen is the size of a small suburb, the lounge room is as big as a whole inner-city apartment, I have a free carport area that's covered, and the shared space between our dwelling community of four residences includes me, a neighbour that's an avid brewer, another that's an older hippie who's cool with 'from scratch' concepts, and a family of arsehole renters above. So, it's generally going to be cool if I ever wanted to cook up some beer in the open areas. FFS my neighbour came over last night to give back not only the grain he borrowed from me (to try 'smoking' it in the Webber for a rauchbier) but another full back of crystal malt, as a kind gesture. I will probably speak to him and go into a dual-guy brew for BIAB. My missuz is quite the maestro with unusual requests for fabric production too, so I might get her to whip up a BIAb bag (she's also passionate about the great beers that this household is producing!)
Isnip/ 'll also add in a bit /snip
snip/ 3-vessel has more bling - you end up with something that you can call 'a brewery' /snip
I don't care much for the 'look' of things, but focus on 'functionality. You could give me a $7,000 guitar to play, but there's every chance that I would get a better voice out of a pawn-shop axe if it was set up by the right technician.
Jase, shoot me a PM if you need some advice putting some taps on the Gatorade cooler. It really needs to be done to be used effectively and was quite cheap with everything coming from Bunnings. On the other side of the tap is a simple braided hose which hasn't had a stuck sparge yet (touch wood)
Cheers mate, I don't have a lot of equipment, nor a shed, nor a car to drive around for that matter. But I might just take you up on your offer of assistance sometime soon. I'm in Nth Strathfield area, where are you ?
Jase,
Before you even get to brewing in a bag try substituting dried malt extract for your can of goo. Will taste much better.
Jez
Really ? I did one brew with mostly-LDME and wasn't a huge fan of it. ALthough the missuz loves it... its called the Nigerian Ale. Butters actually helped me a lot with that one, I hit a bad point in my pre-pitching stage, and he PM'd me his phone number, and saved the mission. I have to say, everyone who's tried it thinks it's the bomb.
That reminds me, I need o send one to the B-Boy (there's only three left) and I think I promised a signature on the label from a football legend.... :huh: Butters, can you confirm this promise ?
