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A coffee plunger is good for late hopping with pellets. Chucking can cause clogging in your bottle filler valve. Well it happened to me.

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I make a 3 kg extract brew, and use the extract from 300gm Cara Aroma and 300gm Cara Wheat. I also occasionally add 50-100gm Choc Malt. The crystal wheat gives the beer a nice fine head. 'Specially grouse when poured from a keg.

I first put my crystal grain into a pot, and throw in a handful or ...

My three plastic fermenters are usually enough, because I only brew for myself, and generally only need to brew every 3 weeks.

But I got a 30 lt DI-water drum off a friend who uses chemicals in electroplating. It is a square type plastic drum. I drilled a 12mm hole in the lid, and fitted a grommet ...

Hi gang. These beers have probably all been drank by now, but never mind. My two bob's worth anyway.

I don't have a licence. Victoria's police and brewery combined to take it from me. They'd just lowered the maximum (before cancellation) from 0.077% to 0.070. I blew 0.070. The magistrate thought I ...

Becks clone?

Hmm. It is too. Note the label .... Made in Australia.

They must make it the same day as the Heineken. Can't tell the diff.

Siphoning seems a good idea, but I can't get my fermenters open without wrapping my legs around them, so I have to rack via the tap.

Now an important point about racking is that beer conditions faster in a fermenter (or keg) than in bottles (Palmer 8.2.3 - 8.5 ) and you should think of it more as ...

Yeah no problem. Hop tea they call it. I use a coffee plunger.

I've pulled and twisted them to no avail.

When I see a stain in my primary tap - every 3 or 4 brews, I replace it.

Hi gang. Just a point about racking and secondary conditioning.

I'm a lazy sort of fellow, and I don't like to do too much unnecessary work, but racking made an immediate improvement to my beer. And I don't just mean clearer beer.

The point is that it conditions faster in a fermenter or keg than ...

I found chucking causes the valve in my bottle filler to block. I had to take the spring out once. Try the coffee plunger, and you'll never go back to chucking. Guaranteed.

I just give them a good rinse with hot water the next morning, let stand for a while, drain, screw a top back on and store until bottling day.

To wash before using, I fill the laundry sink with hot water and a good slurp of unscented White King (chlorine bleach). With rubber gloves on, take them ...

I rack after 1 week, when I add some hop tea (made in a coffee plunger, just like you would make coffee) for dry hopping, and I always prepare some "big head" the day before. I put these into the secondary before racking.

You need to get a couple metres clear PVC tube (Bunnings or HBS) which ...

I've seen oils and emulsions of different varieties including Pride Of Ringwood, Cascade, EKGoldings & Styrian Goldings, etc.

Oils are for bittering, Emulsion for flavour/aroma.

This is what the mega-breweries use. Haven't tried it myself, except in VB, etc.

I raised the issue on another forum ...

Er... Sorry. To answer your question properly - seeing as how I've answered it twice without reading it properly to begin with - It's preferable that you put the grains in cold water and bring to boil, or just before it boils properly. Then let sit (steep) for 20-30mins. Pour through a strainer into ...

... or better still http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/ingredients.html

Check this out: http://www.beerdude.com/reference.shtml for a brief descrition of flavours, and they are not expensive. Just depends on what your HBS stocks.

They usually come in 500g. Use half to try flavour. Reddens the colour, especially during fermentation.

Try some crystal malt for some added flavour.

Use 250g first time, which I thought was sensational.

It's easy. Put the grains into a saucepan. Cover with boiling water from your kettle. Let sit (steep) for about 20-30mins. Strain into a larger pot. Add some more water. Bring to boil and simmer ...

Hi gang. I haven't posted in this forum before, but I discovered that I'm registered. Either my fairy godmother registered me, or I was pissed and don't remember.

Anyway, after my first batch with the PET bottles, I screwed the tops back on my stubbies for about 8 or 9 brews. Occasionally I found a ...