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thanks for the advice, I was planning on doing it similar to what you suggested rwh, but pinching the sides and using the bottling tool still, since I KNOW i'll make a mess doing it straight siphon. I think that'll be more hygenic than sucking and disenfecting.

I was planning on racking the wheat ...

On the weekend I did two stupid things. On friday I racked my LCPA clone into a fermenter without a tap (i left the screw in stopper when I sanitised). Then on sunday I made a wheat beer.

Since I only have two fermenters I now cannot re-rack the LCPA into the first fermenter for bottling, and I'd ...

yeah i had considered that, but i was planning on using some of it for a manifold, and I was a little worried about shipping prices to perth from G&G.

I might give them a call and get one of the stainless steel false bottoms at the same time once I get my kegs opened up. I'll just have to see what ...

thanks for the advice, it does look like Reece is the way to go, I was quoted $61 per 6m length so it sounds like prices have gone up a bit, but it's a far cry from what bunnings had on offer. I'll probably get a pair of those and join 8-10m and use the remainder for a manifold.

On a side note, I ...

Thanks to all you bloody guys on here I'm just going to have to try AGs or partials sometime, even if I am still new to all this. The extra control and participation sounds like just the sort of thing for me to kill half a day or so on.

My question is where the hell do I get copper tubing at a ...

I just put a Coopers Ginger beer down thursday. I used 1kg dex and 500g LDME, plus a bit of fresh ginger chopped up at 15m and 5m into a 35m boil. It would be a pretty strong brew except i lost about 200ml of the wort when i put it in the fermenter with an open tap. From now on i'll be adding a ...

My second brew went down on saturday, a Kilkenny clone (brewcraft box, with muntons gold yeast) and it has stopped on 1016 FG (for the last day and a bit, SG was 1047 and expected FG was supposed to be 1010-1012). I was going to bottle yesterday since It was two days in a row, but I decided to give ...

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I put the can and dex into the fermenter and filled it up to the 23L mark, so it's not that. I did think the 1030 was too low at the time since I had read 1040 is about average, in hindsight i'll definately add malt to get that up a bit next time I make that brew.

The way it has slowed down ...

It was a brewcraft Munich Lager, though I assume from the recommended temperature it came with an ale yeast.

I'll see how it ends up, but as you say Dogger, i've learnt a lot from this site and forums so far, so I have no doubt my next one will be better.

One question regarding boiling, is the ...

I've finally gotten round to getting the gear organised and started with my first bew (and a big thanks to the guy in the Westbrew Joondalup store on saturday).

I started with the generic can+dex+water kit that came with the starter kit, and so far it seems to be ok (no funky smells or green ...