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NTRabbit wrote:I had my gut a few years before i started drinking

Same here. The more I drink though the bigger it gets.

I like a Grumpys masterbrew though. I add a can of medium hopped malt extract to the bag of ingredients (which is boiled). Comes up beaut.


Bad Beer.......Nonexistant.

I was recommended to try a Grumpy's masterbrew. Now I can't get enough.

I've brewed the Stellas Pride Belgian Lager (saflager w34/70 yeast), Republican Dark Ale, Classic English Draught Ale, Yorkshire Toffee and the Shultzheiss German Lager (with w34/70 yeast).

The smells are delightful (just ...

Sarge,

With the Cooper's Pilsner, as I mention above, it comes with a true lager yeast, so in the 9C-15C range is OK. It will ferment higher, but you won't get the true lager characteristics. About 12C is ideal if you can hold it there.

Pitch the yeast when the wort is about 18C and let it get ...

What sort of yeast do you use. If I was to do a low temperature ferment am I better off using Saflager or just the kit yeast? I'm a novice brewer so as technical as it gets for me is boiling extra hops or adding extra malt, etc. I just thought that the normal yeast doesn't ferment at really low ...

Oliver,

Nope, I'm definitely not Ian Perrie.

I did play full back through my school years but alas never continued after that (not that I was much chop anyway )

I'm a devout Port Adelaide fan though. Both the SANFL and AFL sides.

Cheers,
Brad

I started homebrewing when I turned 18 (7 years ago). My interest was there as my grandad has been a brewer since I can remember and I didn't have much money as a uni student, so it was a Brewiser kit for my 18th birthday that my parents gave me which started my homebrew career. I brewed a few ...