homebrewandbeer.com

It's only taken 10 years, but the site is now up to date and fully responsive (AKA works on phones and tablets).

There's an announcement here.

If you notice anything amiss, please let Oliver know via private message.

Cheers,

Oliver and Geoff

After years of neglecting our beloved homebrewandbeer.com for various reasons, Geoff and I have updated the main site and this forum to the latest and greatest versions of the software.

Probably the most important thing is that both are now responsive (that's tech talk that they now work on mobile ...

Hi Rob,

I was up Mildura (Vic) way a month or so ago and picked up a bit of a collection, including a Courage bottle, which I'd never seen before.

I'll post soon ...

Cheers,

Oliver

Hi guys,

Yes, just been flat out for work so haven't had a chance to sit down and go through this properly. I have tried a couple of things but really need to block out a day where I don't have any interruptions (and don't have a beer, because that doesn't help concentration!).

So yes, it is still ...

After being in the disgraceful and embarrassing situation of not having brewed since last spring and being without a single bottle of homebrew in the house (Millennium Ale and a couple of imperial stouts notwithstanding) these two bad boys are now in cubes, with yeast to be pitched this evening ...

Interesting. Try and overlook the fact that Coopers is misspelt Coppers several times :-)

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messenger/west-beaches/coopers-plans-for-60m-upgrade-of-adelaide-brewery/story-fni9llx9-1227326321732

Coopers plans for $60m upgrade of Adelaide brewery
COOPERS is planning to ...

If anyone's free on Saturday, February 21, there is an opportunity to judge the homebrew section of the Jindivick Show, east of Melbourne.

There's no requirement to be a qualified judge, so if you know a bit about beer you're in!

I did it a couple of years ago and it was great fun, but due to ...

I have sent her the link and said that you want to know what she thinks.

If she has anything to say I shall post it here, if it doesn't contain too many *$^#!@s

Hi Guru,

Thanks for the offer. I will PM you with details of what happened. There will be beer in it for you if you can solve it!

Cheers,

Oliver

Well, that didn't exactly go to plan! We hit some major issues during the upgrade and the forum was offline for three days. The fix would have been quicker but sadly 10-hour days at work got in the way of me fixing it more quickly.

All I can do is apologise ... I tested the upgrade thoroughly ...

If you tried to visit the forum between late on Monday 12/1 and Thursday 15/1 you will have noticed that the site was down.

You can read more about what happened here.

I will be taking the site offline at 9.30pm AEST tonight.

If you are online at that time your login will be terminated.

The upgrade should be complete within an hour.

Cheers,

Oliver

I've been beavering away on the forum and homebrewandbeer.com over the holidays and on the evening of Monday 12/1/15 the forum will be offline for a while I upgrade the site and enable a swag of features that will hopefully get you all excited!

Stay tuned.

Cheers,

Oliver

Coopers puts up ‘not for sale’ sign
By ELI GREENBLAT
The Australian , October 08, 2014

THE family that controls South Australia’s Coopers Brewery, Australia’s biggest locally owned brewer, has quietly changed the beverage company’s century-old constitution, which could make it almost ...

Interesting. No doubt homebrewers will have been affected, too.

Oliver

Substandard malt by Joe White leaves brewers bitter
By BEN BUTLER
The Australian , October 08, 2014

BREWERS have been routinely supplied with substandard malt by the country’s biggest producer, Joe White Maltings, which ...

Thanks Tipsy. I am reliably hitting my gravities, using a very dodgy method (namely use 25 litres of mash liquor, set efficiency to 64% in Beersmith, mash, top up to 25 litres then add 2.2 litres/hour for boil-off. Hitting gravities exactly and ending up with about 22 litres of wort.

But it'd be ...

Hi Warra,

The updates have been incorporated into the new site, which, believe it or not, is only a matter of weeks away. I am just re-reading it and making some final tweaks, then it'll be ready to upload.

I took the decision to upload the new site without enabling all the features I wanted to ...

The temperature control issue to which DrSmurto refers is, if I am correct, two-fold.

First is the issue of controlling the temperature of such a large volume of liquid. Heating or cooling four smaller fermenters is easier and quicker than doing the same for one large one of the same total volume ...

+1. I'll be interested to hear how it goes.

What was your reasoning for topping it up rather than starting with a volume of 29 litres?

It sounds like the beer had probably finished fermenting when you topped it up. It'd be very difficult -- nay, near impossible! -- to add water without admitting oxygen at this stage, which is not what you ...