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my story's similar to grab's,

used to suffer chronic hangovers and could not even look at a smoke all day.

Had an extra big night followed by the super size hangover and next thing i knew i hadn't had a smoke for 2 days. :D

35 a day to zero, that was 2 yrs ago and i've never even missed the ...

G'day Skoti,

Like Oliver said, welcome. You won't look back now.

I havn't heard of Armstrong's Kits before, how do you rate them as opposed to Coopers, Morgans etc. Are they available in Oz ?

Cool sig by the way,

cheers

tommo

grabman wrote:AS Evo would have said, chest freezer

Anyone heard from him ?

Bugger it, footy's on in a mo, let the bastard sit for another 7.


GO TIGERS

tommo

Dogger Dan wrote:You should always boil actually.

Dogger

Apologies if I have missed the point Dogger, are you meaning boil the kit ?

GO THE TIGERS

cheers

tommo

cheers mate,

never thought of a search

tommo

It will be fine, normally I wait about 4 days

Dogger

yes.. but my point is this has now been 8 days with no sign of the cap dropping and i would like to rack before i head off for another week.

Would it be ok to gently stir it in, let it settle for 6hrs or so and then rack ?

Or is this risking ...

Not yet, was looking at it in the supermarket and wondering what it would be like.



What supermarket would that be nexrex ?

also is the SG a Wheat Kit ?

I've never seen these kits before so don't know much about them.

I could always jump on their site :roll: :oops:

cheers

tommo

currently ...

Also you could rig it up so that it gave you your drinking statistics - how many you had, when you started when you finished, how long each beer took etc. Whether that information is good bad or useless I don't know.

Cheers,
Greg

What.. :shock:

That information is bad, very bad.

Er indoors ...

Oliver, the oak chip thing sounds interesting.

Got a recipe you can share ?

cheers

tommo

A true blue mate.

tommo

I thought it wasn't a good idea to boil the Kit as you can alter the bitterness etc of the already added hops.

tommo

cheers mate

Making Beer's 1000th topic.

better have another beer to celebrate

oh the joy of being able to lob home and crack a hb 8)

unfortunately, i only experience it once a week due to being on a mine site.

and before you say why dont you take hb out to work , too risky with random breath tests before work :twisted: :twisted: :evil:

so next time you crack one ( hb ...

g'day all,

do wheat beers take longer to ferment ?

i put a morgans kit down last sat 24th, checked it this morning, the airlock still has moderate activity and the krausen is about 20mm deep :shock:

morgans kit 1.7kg
morgans wheat malt 1.0kg
p c s 250gm
SAFwheat K97
23 lt
temp @ 21* approx

not ...

thanks for the info guys

getting pretty close to a good recipe now with all the input.

Clintsc9, do you bottle in glass or PET ?

cheers

tommo

cheers

thanks for the speedy reply mate. :)

reading these earlier posts ( here and other sites ) there seems to be no middle ground as far as carbonation is concerned :evil:

it's either glass grenades or, as you say, flat as.....

just a couple of more Q's for ya :roll:

what yeast did you use, and ...

Made a nice Ginger Beer tonight.

Can of Morgans, 1kg Dex, 500g finely grated ginger root (several peices of knuckle skin & blood inc.), 2 tbsp honey, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 2 tbsp golden syrup, 2 tsp ginger powder, 2 tsp cinnamon, 6 cloves, 2 chilli's from the garden. Boiled the lot for 30 min, then ...