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- Tuesday Feb 17, 2009 5:47 pm
- Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
- Topic: Ginger Beer epic Fail
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4960
Re: Ginger Beer epic Fail
Thanks for that, looks like I will have to go with a kit. I understand what you mean about the alc content, I guess I should have said as low an alc content as possible. 

- Monday Feb 16, 2009 8:25 pm
- Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
- Topic: Ginger Beer epic Fail
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4960
Ginger Beer epic Fail
Hi, :D
I made a plant in a tall jar. About a cup and a half of cold water, some grated ginger, some powdered ginger, some white sugar and a little packet of ale yeast from my HB shop. It bubbled away nicely and I fed it every day with more ginger, more sugar and a bit more water. After a week, I ...
I made a plant in a tall jar. About a cup and a half of cold water, some grated ginger, some powdered ginger, some white sugar and a little packet of ale yeast from my HB shop. It bubbled away nicely and I fed it every day with more ginger, more sugar and a bit more water. After a week, I ...
- Wednesday Nov 26, 2008 7:50 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Sodium meta bi-sulphite
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5596
Sodium meta bi-sulphite
Hi all, I have about 8kg of SMBS, which unfortunately has got wet in the recent storms we've had here. I am trying to dry it out, not a lot of success so far as it's still pretty humid. My question is, is it still usable once it has been properly dried out? TIA. 

- Tuesday Aug 16, 2005 7:23 am
- Forum: Recipes
- Topic: Duff Beer recipe
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11957
Duff Beer recipe
Hi guys, I've just passed my 50th brew and to mark the ,ilestone occasion I thought a Duff beer woull be the go. I know it's ficticious but sureley there's a recipe out there somewhere? I've had a trawl around the web to no avail so any help would be much appreesh. TIA Gusto 

- Sunday May 08, 2005 1:58 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: Brigalow Bitter....problem maybe?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2018
Brigalow Bitter....problem maybe?
Put down on the 27/4 with 1kg dextrose and 500g of light liquid malt, kit yeast and temp at 24 degrees. Starting SG 1050. Well it's been 11 days and I just now did a test and the FG is at 1020 and a LOT of floaties, some settled to the bottom of the tube and some still floating on the surface. What ...
- Monday Apr 18, 2005 7:12 am
- Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
- Topic: Cider Query
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5404
Cider Query
I'll bottle them tonight then
Thanks for the advice. Cheers Gusto

- Sunday Apr 17, 2005 6:39 pm
- Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
- Topic: Cider Query
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5404
Cider Query
Hi guys, I've had a go at a William Tell Cider mix, it's been sitting now for 18 days, the first week it went nutso but all quiet for the last week, I figure it's ready for bottling, I'm going to use the PET bottles that came with my Morgans kit, now the question is....do I need to prime the bottles ...
- Sunday Nov 21, 2004 6:19 pm
- Forum: The beer you buy
- Topic: Breakfast Beer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13913
Breakfast Beer
Finally - a beer to drink at breakfast
From correspondents in London
November 19, 2004
WATCH out Starbucks. British beermakers are wooing the caffeine-crazed with a new beer made from fair-trade coffee beans.
Coffee beans from the central African country of Rwanda are mixed with barley grown in ...
From correspondents in London
November 19, 2004
WATCH out Starbucks. British beermakers are wooing the caffeine-crazed with a new beer made from fair-trade coffee beans.
Coffee beans from the central African country of Rwanda are mixed with barley grown in ...
- Sunday Nov 21, 2004 5:25 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: Coopers Bavarian Query
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6408
Coopers Bavarian Query
Put down on 24/10 with the kit yeast and a pack of Coopers Brew Enhancer #2, primary fermentation was 15 days before bottling and each bottle (grolsch x 42) primed with Morgans Drops (yeah I know they're probably crap but I wanted to use them up) I opened a couple last night (been sitting 13 days ...
- Sunday Nov 21, 2004 5:04 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: The Best and the Worst
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6875
- Sunday Nov 21, 2004 5:01 pm
- Forum: Buy, swap and sell
- Topic: Longnecks Wanted Narre Warren Area (Melb Metro)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5431
Longnecks Wanted Narre Warren Area (Melb Metro)
Topic kinda sez it all 
I will collect and gladly pay the going rate for any longnecks if anyone is willing to part with them, I need about 120 botts, please email to mal@supernerd.com.au with your phone number. TIA

I will collect and gladly pay the going rate for any longnecks if anyone is willing to part with them, I need about 120 botts, please email to mal@supernerd.com.au with your phone number. TIA

- Sunday Sep 26, 2004 9:45 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: Bottling query, sediment, cloudy etc. etc etcetera ;-)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8152
- Friday Sep 24, 2004 4:59 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: Bottling query, sediment, cloudy etc. etc etcetera ;-)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8152
Bottling query, sediment, cloudy etc. etc etcetera ;-)
Greets to all from Lismore NSW :D
I made up my first brew this week, an Aussie Draught that came with a Morgan kit. I had no problems with the fermentation, I started last Thursday week and yesterday, 7 days later, the hydrometer is just into the green. I figure my alcohol % to be around 4.06 ...
I made up my first brew this week, an Aussie Draught that came with a Morgan kit. I had no problems with the fermentation, I started last Thursday week and yesterday, 7 days later, the hydrometer is just into the green. I figure my alcohol % to be around 4.06 ...