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Nothing like suffering for your art

Seriously though, I'd suggest starting with a White tin Coopers Stout and a bag of 'Stout combo' (available from any good HBS) and go from there tasting etc.

I had a Carbine Stout before Christmas, but cannot recall anything in particular about it beyond 'nice stout'

Cheers,
Greg Well, I might ...

gregb wrote:Nah, if you buy the commercial example then relabel it to pass off as your brew, then it could be called 'Fine Cotton'.

Cheers,
Greg

ROFL

D'you think Robbie Waterhouse would do the ads?

You can really taste the horse!

If I ever work it out, should I market it and christen it "Fine Cotton"?

While I'm not a noted stout drinker, we had our latest work Christmas party at the XXXX brewery, and I took the opportunity to sample both the Carbine stout and the XXX on tap there... and especially loved the Carbine.

Does anyone have any experience/theories on cloning it?

Pale_Ale wrote:Yeah, pretty bad general advice to give, it implies that's the case with all beer.

Yeah, but most manufacturers consider their beer to be the ONLY beer, don't they?

:cry: Heard so many bad things bout this brew am relunctant to crack one of mine
Its had 1 week prmary 1 week second 180 dex prime and over a month in the bottle
Better I leave it fer another months?
Oh.... kit + kilo of dex wasnt aware of coops brew #2 then. Leave it a while longer... I did a ...

Barney, I'm not too sure how sweet your cider will be as there's no lactose. You need some unfermentable sugar.

As for my quince cider, I've tried a couple of stubbies and it's delicious, but still needs a month or so to carbonate. I wouldn't say that it was particularly sweet, I mean compared ...

Well, I bit the bullet and dropped on in this evening, the Brigalow, with 2 1/2 litres of applejuice for company, 300g of malt and 1/2 a kilo of raw sugar... started at 1044... we'll see how that goes for a first attempt.

blandy, how did it turn out? I'm just about to put down a Brigalow kit, and am looking for as much info on making a resonable sweet cider as I can find, before I start

Sounds a goer... I put this one down as my second-ever brew, played it straight with nothing more than a bag of BE2, and it certainly something .

Having said that, I cracked a couple last night for the first time in three or four months and drank them with w sliver of lime in my glass :roll ...

gregb wrote:Shanks, Push bike and a Dihatsu charade.

Cheers,
Greg

Which is quickest?

Holden and Vegemite... still about as Australian as one another... Ford Australia enjoys more autonomy than Holden IIRC...

Anyway, I like my Henries, owned more of them than anything else.

It certainly divides opinion! For mine, I enjoy it as a bit of a change from time to time, but make no pretensions about knowing a good beer from a bad one... glad Dogger enjoyed it, if only because of the amount of discussion over it.

C'mon Dogger, don't keep us hanging... how was it?

Well, I'm a-brewin'! Got impatient, which probably contradicts the zen of homebrewing, but we've got a lovely smell in our bathroom... bit warm (mid twenties but looking for a good-sozed towel to wet it down)... dark in stormy night in Briz last night, which was quite appropriate for Barney and his ...

Dogger Dan wrote:Sorry,

I didn't mean for it to be cheap

Dogger

Didn't think it was that bad myself! Anyway, thanks for the advice and the warm welcome guys. This place looks like it's got the finest collection of brew monsters in the world! Merry Christmas!

Dogger Dan wrote:Barney,

You aren't a big purple dinosaur are you?

Dogger

Depends on what (and how much) I drink...

Thanks guys! I'll keep all your advice at the forefront of my mind. Grabbed a bag of Brew Improver 1 last night, and am considering putting the lager tin aside for a pale ale (will purchase before the missus notices)... stay tuned in the new year for Barney's bash at brewing!

Thanks guys!

While we're talking tips, and sanitation, how many of you are using Milton sterilising formula or tablets? We've got another of our offspring due in March, and have always sterilised the bottles (2 already under 4 y.o) with Milton... and I saw it mentioned in other parts. For the baby ...

Thanks bc!

All sound like good ideas. I'd been looking at the sugar/alternative question with great interest...

I'm looking forward to getting the ball rolling...