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Got an American Pale Ale going under the house at the moment:

3kg Light liquid malt extract
150g crystal malt

Boil time: 20 mins (Yes, it's short, but the AA is high)
Boil SG: 1.057
Target IBU: 37 (Tinseth) 36 (Rager)
35g Chinook @20 mins (AA=11%)
20g Simcoe @5mins (AA = 12%)
10g Simcoe @ flameout ...

If you're reasonably good with spreadsheets, then you can make your own.

Most of the calculations you need are in Palmer: http://www.howtobrew.com

Some others can be found on the web with some searching. If you find an online brewing calculator that does what you want, then you can look at the ...

They'll be fine in an insulated bag with an ice brick for a few hours

G&G all the way.

Welcome to the slippery slope of liquid yeast (which is a subsection of the slippery slope of homebrewing)

Hi chadjaja

If space in the fridge is a premium and I don't want a six pack of bottles per batch of yeast can I make half the starters? Use half the contents of the vial and make up three stubbies or even just one at a time and store the opened tube for a good length of time??

It's probably not ...

Hi JoeStone,

Over winter I made an all-grain oaked porter. I had a bag of oak chips left over from a wine kit that we didn't want to oak, and the porter was may way of getting rid of them in a productive way.

I think the wine kit instructions say to tip them in at secondary fermentation. so that's ...

I knew i should've done engineering at Uni....

Hmmm, in two years I will have both a BE (chem) and BComm, looks like a trip to WA might .. hic ... be in order.

apart from homebrewing, I'm a bit deficient on the "experience" part, although I have drunk a lot of little creatures recently :D .

Just got back from Tasmania, and WHOA they grow a lot of hops there

pretty much all of my dad's cousins there have harvested hops, and I've received heaps of advice on how to grow them. Anyway, I don't think I needed much convincing, but I'll start growing hops for this season

waaaah!

I go away for a week and everything changes?

looks good though

Iron-Haggis wrote: If we see places trying to sell Brewed Under License beers as Imported then we should let them know about it.

YES

better to let places know that they are misrepresenting their stock rather than report them to the ACCC. I'm all in favour of giving these places a chance

Let's hope Dan Murphy's is making a profit, otherwise they'll close down and I won't have easy access to a reasonably large variety of beers and wines.

That's the one.

The adaptor connects the soda stream gas bottle to a regulator. This is like the setup they had on the demonstration party keg at G&G. G&G stock them.

I got my soda stream gas bottle and adaptor yesterdaym so I'm all ready .

I think the keg will make its debut for the basketball club xmas party

Check out this thread for a bit more information:

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7328
look at the second post.

anyway, Rager and Tinseth effectively conducted the same experiment, but got very different results. I've no idea why, but I'll assume that if you can be bothered ...

banger wrote:Greg,

Happy to do a blind test for you. Will probably take 6 of each to be certain, so if you can organise the beers, I'll taste them for you..

what's your definition of "blind" here, Banger?

Is it any different?

did you have to check the lable, or was it advertised in the shop?

1.050 is an absolutely fine OG. it will probably end up a bit more alcoholic (say about 0.5%) and a bit fuller bodied than the beers you made wth an OG of 1.044.


don't worry, relax, and have a homebrew

Generally if you get vortexing in a stirred vessel, then mixing efficiency can be improved by installing vertical baffles, ie less mixing power will be needed to keep the yeast in suspension. if you are not worried about using too much power, then don't worry about it.

In my previous post I was ...

Great idea. :D

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If you get funneling (aka vortexing) then the mixing is not efficient. If this occurrs than you've just got bits of yeast floating round in circles relative to each other, but not mixing (think cars driving round a huge, 2-laned roundabout, but none of them crashing ... you ...

Does anyone have the contact details of the bloke in Tassie who sells Hops in April/May?


If that guy's name is Stuart Fergason, then yes. He's my great uncle. I think he supplies rhizomes to G&G. He used to (maybe still is too?) be the president of some sort of hop growers association in ...