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Guys..

I have about 3 Large GLAD bags (1kg each) of NZ cascade flowers (8.2%aa) that i have sitting in the fridge. I wont use them all before they start going cheesy, so if anyone wants a bag they will be going for about 40 bucks each.. they have only been in the GLAD bags for a few days.

Bags ...

I"ll be home tomorrow morning, and most of the weekend.

message me on 0418 955 927

cheers

James

I"ll be home tomorrow morning, and most of the weekend.

message me on 0418 955 927

cheers

James

2g of sugar (sucrose) will add 1g per L of CO2 to your beer.

the rest is turned into alcohol by the yeast in the bottle/keg

therefore if you want 4g/L CO2 (or 2 volumes) then add 160g of sucrose for 20L of beer.

If you want 5g/L CO2 (or 2.5 volumes) add 200g of sucrose for 20L of beer

EASY ...

Guys,

I have some grolsch bottles for sale if you want them.

50 green and about 35 browns.

They will need a clean and a new seal as they havent been used sinse 1991. Some still have beer in them.

PM me if you want them

Cheers

James

Guys,

Its me again, I still have some 800ml bottles if anyone is interested.

I also have about 200 of the 500ml weihenstephan style bottles

and about 80 of the Little Creatures Pale Ale Pint bottles.

If anyone is interested, PM me.

Cheers

James.

Guys,

since my conversion to Kegging, i no longer need my collection of 800ml longnecks.

I have about 100 that are all relatively clean.

PM me if you want them, I'm in Hamersley

Cheers

James

Guys,

just put a deposit down on a keg fridge... its a Skope SL295... Worth at least 2K, sold for $350 due to thermostat probs.. i did the measurements, she'll definately hold 6 kegs.. Got glass sliding doors (both sides) and fluorescent lights for ambience...

I"ll get some photos as soon as i get ...

Without expensive equipment?

Haemocytmometers are about 120 bucks and microscopes capable of 400x mag are at least 800 bucks, but you are right... its the only true way of getting an accurate indication of yeast numbers and viability.

Gym, remember that yeast are single celled organisms and ...

that schwarzbier recipe looks darn diddly good.. i might give it a smash after this pilsner in the 10C fridge has finished fermenting, might even use the same yeast (wyeast 2007), or i could grow up some oktoberfest blend... i was wondering what i would do with that 25kg bag of vienna i picked up...

I had to bottle 51000 bottles of beer today...

Yeh sorry, it been a while since i've used PET bottles, so i just assumed that everyone now uses glass...

I thought about writing it off on tax, but unless you are in the industry, its gonna be quite difficult..

I'm going to be doing my course through IBD.. via correspondance.. company is paying though...

All those brewing books i've always wanted but were too expensive to consider can now be written ...

Instead of steam sterilising, you could always chuck your clean bottles in the oven at 160C for 12 minutes... that will achieve the same thing as autoclaving with steam for 15 minutes at 121C... thats simple and you can do a few dozen at a time...

depends how clean your oven is though...

1080 Poison... I remember learning about that stuff in Biochemistry at Uni... Sodium Fluoro Acetate...

As for 1080 in the hydro, i dont think i could drink a blonde ale at 8.5%...

You cant make beer from a stone....

Summer wine ey Biernut.... Sweet Berry Wine??

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1ORyzAhXzlQ

I thought i'd give this a go last friday...

26L batch...
5.3kg ale
0.5kg munich
0.3kg wheat

66C mash temp.
1054 OG (75% efficiency).

40g Perle (6.8%, 60 mins)
15g Amarillo (8.2%, 30 mins), 15g NS (13%, 30 mins),
20g Amarillo (8.2%, 0 mins), 20g NS (13%, 30 mins)...

35 IBUs.

1056 starter ...

WSC,

i think you'll find the basics of brewing chem in the Palmers "how to brew" book thats online...

I dont think there is any real need to know much more than that, except to get a water quality analysis done on the water in your local area, so you can compare it to other waters, and to see ...

I'll be starting at Gage Rds on the 12th....Assistant brewer... dunno how i'm gonna go without an autoclave to sterlise my starter wort, but i can see many more advantages than disadvantages.

Centennial is a great hop... i also have simcoe, challenger, and northdown in the freezer i have yet to try ...

My new years resolutions...

Brew for a living (done)..
Nail the perfect german helles/lager..
Get on the Keg train (halfway there).
Temp control my HLT.
do my BJCP (beer judging certification program)

All very do-able