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I would leave adding the spices till you rack - that way you can rack into your sanitised spiced liquid. Also, adding the honey to the bottle would give you carbonation and a sparkling wine.

I am planning my second mead with 6 kgs of yellowbox honey and intending to do the primary ferment without ...

rwh wrote:That sounds fine. I normally do it with 2 or 3 longnecks of pale, and don't see activity for 24-48 hours. But once it gets going it really gets going.

Sounds like a great excuse to drink 3 longnecks

Coopers prime their bottles with sucrose :lol:

Why is it that coopers try to promote their beer as premium when they don't use all malt? I am sure I can taste the effect of simple sugars in both their sparkling and pale ales, perhaps not the extra stout. Should the German purity law apply to ...

I recently vowed that I would never buy another MSB kit.

I must say the MSB pale ale I made which at first I was happy (thinking it would improve so much with age), I am now very unimpressed. Just very average and uninteresting and underhopped... much like many commercial beers I guess. On the ...

MSB summer wheat brewed 3 and a half weeks ago...
I bought 2 kits from HBS and when putting down one can to 11.5L the first yeast was dead, 24 hours later used the yeast from the second can, dead also :cry: went to HBS and bought brewceller 15g wheat yeast (ended up a very expensive 11.5L, with ...

Got the s-04 for it... at 11.5L would you guys add the malt and crystal?
I was going for an extra stout style. Hoping for a creamy white head and not sure how crystal or extra malt will affect that.

Thanks Leigh, just the quality of the packaging felt like a relable. Plain silver yeast pack with RAB and the tape holding on the label

Bought a can of the Mountmellick as I thought it was a quality kit. Not sure if it is just me but the packaging seemed cheap and nasty - label was held on by small bit of tape and the yeast was a cheap looking silver pack with only the marking "RAB" - no date, weight or anything (dodgy, dodgy). Did ...

Thanks for that... will be putting one down with the wheat, Realise it is impossible to get it the right colour with the kit - I will be more than happy if it significantly reduces the amber colour that I got on my last coopers wheat

Question from those who have made this recipe with torrified wheat: Does it give you the true white beer colour and cloudyness of hoegaarden?

I have made a coopers brewmaster wheat without the torrified wheat. Happy with the flavour but not the colour for this style.

There is a scourer by Selleys called wash up WIZ that will not scratch. Never seen it in a supermarket (looked real hard) but you can get it at bunnings in the houshold cleaning section. Absolutely amazing product... lasts forever and works a treat.

Just take care with the green plastic scourers - I buy the Scotch Brite but once did an experiment before using it on a non-stick pan. Used a damp one and very firmly rubbed some glass... the scotch brite ones will scratch both glass and stainless steel when you rub hard... shame cause they work so ...

I have access to an industrial juicer, (i dont know if it is really industrial, but it devours whole apples in seconds).

I notice that the Brewcraft recipe http://www.liquorcraft.com.au/wa.asp?idWebPage=13636&idDetails=105 wants a hell of a lot of lemons (12~24).

If i were to juice those lemons ...

I stand corrected :oops:

Just paranoid about harming my brew with a step which I have avoided so far. I have found the carb drops super easy but slightly inconsistent... and not quite sure how they will go in my stout which I am just bottling.

I agree that it is desirable to carbonate to style ...

I bought some glass homebrew bottles, but they're 670ml... so I assume that drops out carbonation drops as a solution. I have a sugar scoop, which has .33, .5 and .75 of a litre. Last time, I used two of the .33s but didn't get enough sugar, result was quite flat.

Any easy ways to approach priming ...

Thanks balls
adloheat have listed the Fan Control Model THF 0-40oC 10 Amp (fan/brew/fridge use), is this what you use? They list for $112

Balls wrote:There are other types on the market that you don't need to do any wiring which work just as good Cheers

Any idea where I can get a 'ready to go' temp controller

Anyone know of a fridgemate setup that doesn't require additional wiring after purchase? Doesn't make sense to me why they make this product so that additional wiring has to be done?

I have mucked around with a fair bit of home wiring and want to avoid it now as I made a stupid mistake and it was ...

Or you could do a RIS, Can of Stout, Dark Ale, Lager, 500g each Dex & LDME. Put the fermenter in the bath as it will krausen to the moon.

Super krausen is not a bad sign for the beer. It is, however, bad for the linen table cloth.

Cheers,
Greg

Super krausen! The fermenter looks like a mr whippy ...

Looks like I have the nice winter drop I was hoping for. Had seen the stout + dark ale toucan mentioned on the forum a fair bit but didn't find anything much on toucan stout. Might try another toucan with 500G of LDME next for an extra stout.

Now all I have to do is stop the bloody thing from ...