I think you need to re-read his post, Duff... He said that the wort kits don't have the water boiled out of them, which reduced the can's quality.
Gday,
I just stumbled across the first issue of "Beer And Brewer" yesterday and when I rang to subscribe this morning they sent me this direction.
I have been brewing for about 7 years , mostly Kits and i am looking to get into brewing from scratch and also looking at buying a keg system, I'm sick of washing bottles!
I cant believe this place exists and i haven't found it before!!
Well this is just a hello and introduction, I'm sure you will all get to know me more as i bombard you with stupid questions tongue.gif
And Again a big thanks to the guys at Beer and Brewer for pointing me in this direction and for the awesome magazine!!
Troy
Ohh more details on the "Good Beer Lunch" Please!!
Troy
do you roll your R's"
Hi Cold..az, I'm also in NZ. You need to source you grains from Brewers Coop in Auckland. They stock about 15 differnet varities of malt. Their prices have just gone up but crushed varied between $NZ3.20/kg for Aussie Pale Malt to $NZ4.34/kg for UK Chocolate. The prices you mentioned are high.
A 25 Kg bag of crushed Weyerman Pilsner will cost about $81 and living so close to Aucklnad you could driver there and pick it up! His freight rates are pretty reasonable too.
Hops are best bought from NZ Hops Ltd.
At current exchange rates $NZ1 = $AU1 or bloody close to it.
Cheers
NZBeer
It depinds if they 'shear' their beersYou guys get going and kick things off in NZ, pretty soon you'll be having your own NI case swap. :beer:
It depinds if they 'shear' their beersh34r:
Might be better than a free prostate check.h34r:
Does winkle have a goat?
Well I have been reading the forum for a while now and I have posted a couple of times but have dodged introducing myself, so here goes.
My name is Avit, I am a reformed non beer drinking person..... <_<
I am from Melbourne, but am currently living in sunny Manchester, England.
I have been brewing for about 6months and I am currently in the process of doing my second extract brew. i really would love to do some sort of mini mash but i think that could be stretching the relationship with the other half...
Im at work, but have nothing do do, so what better than to catch up on the forums.
Hello to all!!! Happy posting
Avit
hey guys im Skeet in adelaide
ive made a couple of pale ale brews in bottles but now have converted to 50 litre kegs.
im really only interested in either pale ale and sparkling ale recipes and tips. I only brew out of the kit and dont have the time to do mash and yeast farming.
Any help you be greatly appreciated
Skeet
Now now we canna keep hijacking threads or them unThat's his business mate and he could be sensitive about it. Shouldn't bring it up here mate. Best you send these things to Tidal Pete's Brewerhood email forum.
Cheers,
Sean.![]()
Cheers Avit, welcome aboard. Keep us posted on the UK homebrew scene.
Welcome Skeet, you're in homebrew central in SA.
Screwy
No, not naturally but I am trained to do so in an emergency. I live in Hamilton, an hours' drive south of Auckland.
We can get a reasonable variety of malts here but LHBS sells at between $ 7 and $ 8 a kilo crushed, so my last 26 L batch of 1.052 cost me about $ 53. I guess thats around AUS$ 45, but I have'nt seen the exchange rate for quite a while.
How does that compare with your prices ?
About to buy a sack of crushed pils for $ 120, should get 5 batches out of it plus a bit of additional malt.
Paul.