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I'm a member of a new Sydney club that started up about a year ago, servicing the North Western/Hills districts of Sydney. The Hills Brewers Guild.

http://www.hillsbrewersguild.com/

Any Sydney brewers who can make it are more than welcome to come along and see what we're all about.

Any ...

Read on another forum that Morgans manufacture the generic kits in Oz.

Coopers Heritage Draught
Ultrabrew pack
12gm Cluster hops 10 mins

Worked out at only 4% ABV, bottle primed. Everyone has complemented me on this, even the peasant mates who don't like homebrew. Next time will do with 1.5kg LME.

+ Anything with Cascade in it!!!

Mark 68, you should only experience a loss in temperature of a degree or two, not 20 degrees. That's why people use esky's as mash tuns; they're designed to not lose the cool temperature from the ice to keep your beer cold. Put hot wort into it and the insulation keeps most of the heat in.

Found this site a couple of days ago on another forum. Not sure how much it would cost to ship second hand equipment over from the US, but it might give you some ideas.

http://www.nabrewing.com/products.shtml

If it helps, I read somewhere years ago that to run a micro brewery at a decent enough ...

Hey Carbonator and scblack, I'm from Baulkham Hills as well. 3 min walk from the Tafe. There's a new brew club starting up in the Hills area. PM me if you're interested. It's a group of blokes of all different levels sharing beers and ideas.

edit: just realised no PMing on this board. Send me an ...

Drink! Drink! Drink!

(Then tell us all about it so we don't have to)

My biggest weakness is coming home from work and going straight to the fridge.

Commercially, gotta be the Pales, Coopers and Little Creatures.

Vitalogy,

Personally I don't think it matters. I bought a mate a Tooheys starter kit for his 30th, and it came with all the necesarry things (except for the sugar measurer for bottling). I bought a kit from a homebrew store about 10 or 11 years ago for myself. Whatever you get, it'll help you make ...

Silkworm you bugger! Now I'm gonna have that song going through my head till I get home. 36 minutes to go.

I can't comment on the GB as I haven't tried it yet, but I found the Lager to be a disappointment. My mates all said it was nice, but to me, It tasted like a homebrew that I wouldn't bother trying to do again! Too plain and boring.

The missus gave me some money to buy a slab of commercial beer for when we have guests (She's worried my homebrew isn't everyone's cup of tea, and that my 6% beers will get some unsuspecting driver killed), saw the VB Original for $34 and thought why not, at least I'll get these decent bottles out ...

I've just cracked the Wal's bitter. Nice for a bitter, and should definately improve with some more time in the bottle. I didn't add anything to it the first time so I could see how they stacked up. Has definately got me wanting to try the rest of the range. Just picked up the Wal's Wheat (which I'm ...

I Love the Wheat beers. Never noticed a short shelf life though, as they never last that long. Just about to brew a Dark wheat beer, (just adding Carawheat to a wheat kit). Getting thirsty at work just thinking about it.

Next they'll start claiming that their product is actually beer!

Where'd you find those? I'm thinking of getting into mashing as well but am worried about the price for the equipment.

I bought a can of the coopers stout, but forgot to get sugars...had an out of date Morgans Bitter can in the garage, so used that instead (pitched the Stout yeast, chucked the other) and ended up with an awesome stout. Was very smoky at first, but is maturing along nicely. Might put a few extra hops ...