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drsmurto: you might want to get in touch with a refridgeration cluebie - the R22 on the side of that unit makes me think its full of Chlorodifluoromethane, the sale and production of which is being scaled back because its less than ozone friendly.
If its all gassed up and works sweet, don't look a ...

tarlox - I quite like the Rooftop Red, but a good example is an elusive animal.

I've had it on tap at The Queens hotel in Mount Lawley (Perth) and it was crap.
I've had bottles of it that were delightful .... and I've had bottles of it that had some crazy bitterness.
There's some quality control ...

Pyssedas Heavy Industrial wrote:You forget of course Roxette, though where they rate on your continuum of cool is another matter

gregb's correct. I could have included Ace of Base too.

Why does no-one ever nominate a favorite band from Chad

Too landlocked to rock?

Ah good to see other Whitesnake fans still exist out there - are still one of my favorite morning bans to shower to

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Thanks PHI,
Now I can't get Fool For Your Loving out of my head :|
Showering to Whitesnake? You're probably just thinking about Tawny Kitaen washing ...

Haven't done this one, but I did their Oud Vlaams Broun.
The yeast certainly wasn't anything to write home about.
Shoulda taken a culture from a St. Bernardus bottle or something.

You could try making a starter from a Hoegaarden Grand Cru, but Wyeast 3944 Belgian Witbier or 3463 Forbidden Fruit ...

Ubuntu is my fave for a desktop machine at the moment.
Really easy to use/setup. Based on Debian, one of the oldest & sanest distributions.

New Zealand. Check out http://www.monteiths.co.nz.
Its the first of their offerings I've tried, but I'm willing to give it all a go despite the Radler

Interesting that it appears to be a generic term for a shandy, rather than a distinct style of beer as they contend on their website.

Cheers!

Picked up a couple of Monteiths' brews last night including a bottle of the Radler.
This isn't intended to be much of a review, just a couple of observations.

Monteith's Lemon and Lime Flavoured Radler is refreshing fruity lager, based on the original style brewed in Bavaria in the 1920's. In ...

DrSmurto,
I was attempting to imply that using sucrose as one of the major components of your brew isn't a crash hot idea.
In small doses its flavour profile isn't an issue (i.e. priming for bottling) and in some cases its actually a really good idea to use sucrose (in some Belgian styles). However ...

I cut my teeth in the IT game looking after Windoze and Netware, fortunately managing to steer myself away from that after a couple of years.
I look after a couple of hundred Unix systems during the day. When I come home, the last thing I want to do is battle Microsoft.

I just bought the girlfriend ...

Hey all, bought my first ever kit yesterday, just the coopers micro brew kit. going to do a couple see how they go. than hopefully by reading all ur posts i can learn and experiment and come up with some good brews of my own. but for now, the kit has got me started, its fermenting well, bubbling ...

Excellent, dont need a packed lunch for Bedford.

Good luck with the mission.
I'll keep an eye out for your post.

Cheers

TBH

El Hornet, the action is go.
Drop me some e-mail (mustang-bottles <at> choad <dot> tv). I have many bottles. Many of them look quite antique, but solid. Some of them are ...

Schooner wrote:

MrDave wrote:Oh dear. Saw them on the weekend.
Yup, one's an old steel (not stainless) 18 gallon job.

Steel ? or allie. hard to believe.
does a magnet stick - tho not the best way to tell as low grade S/S is magnetic.

The corrosion the outside is red iron oxide, so I reckon its steel.

Oh dear. Saw them on the weekend.
Yup, one's an old steel (not stainless) 18 gallon job.
The other one's a 50L one circa 1993.
Both of them are ex-Swan Brewery.

Anyone in Perth want the 18 gal one for an HLT?
I really don't think I want to mess with it.

yardglass wrote:

Schooner wrote:The milk crate phrase again...gawd, every keg is not owned by a brewery.



don't cut the top off a good keg

Unless you're making a Kettle.

Mmmm. I'm thinking thats perhaps how it'll end up.
Corny kegs look a lot easier to clean and move around.
Still, this 'little' one might be the biz.

Well guys , almost finished drinking the Coopers lager and i must admit it turned out to be quite a descent drop . Crisp and clean with a nice bite , damn refreshing , ive got a pilsner bubbling away in the fermenter and another stout ready to go . I live in Margaret River W.A so brew ingredients ...

Hi kegmeisters,
A friend of mine has "a big old keg and a smaller one" that have been in storage on a property a couple of hours out of town. His father used to brew but is a bit beyond that now. He's happy to offload them to me - I'm curious as to how useful they're going to be.

What were the old ...

ok - couple more things.

After I have racked - how much clearer is the beer going to be, and can you bulk prime in the same jerry-can that you've racked into? (thus avoiding racking 2 times)

'Clearer' depends on your yeast, but it should be fair bit clearer than when it left the primary ...

Lord Azrael, I made a 15L batch with the Cooper's yeast recently and it was done in about 36 hours.
Its a real speed demon at those temps. Try to keep it around 20 or so.

Greetings MrDave,

I'd love to put my hand up for any of the King Browns that are surlpus to your requirements.

I've got about 10 dozen at the moment and they were all the "covered in dust out the back of a shed" type of bottles. Only one I've never managed to get clean had concrete in it for some ...