Hello from Bendigo

[JMXR]

Hi all my name is Justin and I'm from Bendigo in northern Victoria. I've brewed before (strictly from cans) but that was a long time ago; inspired recently to get back into it when I went to a new little craft brewery / bar here and realised that I could brew 23+ litres for the same price as three pints out!

Did my first two brews out of a can, but have bitten the bullet and started all-grain brewing with a Tripel (even made my own Belgian candi!) and a chocolate porter (that is ... shall we say richer than it should be as I rounded up my grains ... 8kg in a 23 litre batch!).

Still brewing in an electric urn but hopefully will be upgrading my equipment soon. Still have lots to learn, I haven't even begun to address pH concerns yet!

 

[philrob]

Welcome to AHB.
Geez, you jumped into the deep end with those brews, but good luck to you.
Any questions, just ask and we'll do our best to help you.

 

[Ballaratguy]

I started much the same way. I ended up with a Guten 50Lt single vessel brewery that I converted with a grainfather controller. I love this system as there are about 125,000 recipes in the grainfather app and the controller controls the brew so you aren’t tied to the SVB to change settings
That and the stainless steel fermenter (pressure fermenting) has made doing a brew a great experience and enjoyable experience
I hope you get as much pleasure out of it as I do
There’s a good brew club in the Bendigo region I found people in brew clubs very helpful