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OK. Got me some yeast and I'm gearing up to break out the fermenter this weekend! Whoo hoo!

I don't know why, but I stopped making homebrew :shock: soon after getting preg with #2, and looking at my activity, my last post was March 2007! Unbelievable. I got a advert from the HBS in Ballarat the other day which prompted my thoughts about this craft. So now I am feeling very ashamed at ...

I did!! 1kg of it. I just went and checked it, and absolutely nothing is happening through the air lock. I think I will definately have to rely on hydro measures for this one!!!!

The other female that I've noticed on here is Copperhead Deb; she's a master of creative ginger beers;

I'm another female on here. I bought the fermenter et al for hubby for Xmas a couple of years ago, but he never got around to starting it (although he LOVES a beer :wink: ). I got peeved off ...

I have just made my first batch of alcoholic sarsaprilla. I used the Old Fashioned brand (purple and white cardboard tin). My SG was 1.016. If it finishes where the labels says it should, I will get an expected Alc% of 0.5% Ha ha ha.....

Hope it tastes good, because brewing it for its alcoholic ...

I always believed that Sarsaparilla (or Root Beer) were made from the sarsaparilla vine (using the dried roots). The effects of this particular plant ( Smilax regelii and other closely related species) are purported to be hugely beneficial in a number of health related areas, including liver detox ...

Ha ha ha...

This thread is just too funny!!!!

I haven't made any beer over the whole summer period. TBH, I just couldn't be bopthered with the whole ice thing and I couldn't keep the fermenter below 28 - 30 degrees. So I just gave up. Bit of a pathetic excuse really.

BUT!

I am just about to get cranked up again and get stuck into brewing a ...

Phew! That must be a releif that your work wasn't in vain. It sounds like an interesting combo of flavours!

Has your BIL like it? Seeing as you started on this venture because he didn't like beer.

That's the mead we drink at home. Their spiced mead is very yummy too!

The Brigalow cider is toxic, but that's another story...

Just had a taste test of a brew of Brigalow apple cider.

Tastes like shit (although I haven't tasted shit before). Uninspiring, bland, no body, bubbles disappear quick. What a waste of 10 bucks!

Hey Eureka - it is not recommended that ...

Oliver wrote: I think I would have to rate this pearler that the former owner of a homebrew shop in Geelong, Australia, gave Geoff and I

OMG!! I have gone to the Geelong HBS......I'm trusting that the owners have changed hands, 'cause the guy I had was quite good!

Some of those are pearlers!!! LOL

God, I'm itching to open one of my babies!!! Been 4 weeks thereabouts in cold condition. I think I'll leave another 2 weeks tho. Or maybe not!!

Oooh, I'm glad this is here...I was just coming on to ask!

I have a stout that I bottled on 2/9/06. I put into mainly 650ml bottles. On advice from here, I carbonated with dex 1/2 teaspoon (small end of measurer) into each bottle. I tried one last night and although the taste is definately getting ...

OK. SG is a constant (1.012) so I am going to bottle later on today. Fingers crossed a bit of time in the bottle improves it.

It might be my imagination (or my hopes) but I think that it tastes better today than even the other day. Maybe I had a lot of crude on the bottom of the fermenter that got ...

Thanks for those repsonse.

The OG was 1.033 and the SG Imeasured tonight was 1.012. I think I will leave for another day or 2 and then check SG again. The lack of air bubbles didn't have me that worried....but the smell and the taste. Wow.

So you reckon I will know if I have an infection? Is it ...

Hi all,

I have a Morgans Golden Sheath Wheat Beer in the fermenter atm and it is now 8 days. Air lock has been bubbling merrily (although I do know not to put heaps of faith in the air lock :wink: ), but things have been going along ok. I measured SG tonight for first time since laying down the ...

Seen it? Cripes I thought it was good! :D

For those that haven't seen it, it is a rip off of Flashdance, but instead of a young trim girl trying to get into dance academy, it is a largish male trying to woo the selection panel into giving him a brewers job at Carlton Draught.

He does the dance ...

And these hops will give the aroma?? (as per the 60 20 1 rule?)

Oooh, this cracking grain thing has me thinking. We buy whole grain and can crack it ourselves in our own mill when needed for cow feed. We run a dairy farm. So we're talking BIG lots of grain (more than 25kg anyways!!! LOL )