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Pixelboy, the 30th would be too late unfortunately and I'm at work all day today, so thats out too. Do you have any friends or relatives in the inner west of sydney? I could potentially drop it off somewhere.

Pixelboy the other fermenter is still on offer. It is slightly stained a greenish colour though from excessive use of hops

possessed_haemorrhage wrote:Yep I'm in Cronulla. Sometime on the weekend ok?

Yep weekend is ok. I'll email you my contact details.

Ok consider them yours. Are you in sydney as you will have to come pick them up. I'm in Leichhardt.

I am moving overseas in three weeks and need to get rid of some of my HB equipment. Basically I have two pail type fermenters to give away as well as a length of racking hose. I will throw in however many crown seal longnecks that I have left at that point too - probably around half a dozon to one ...

AC,
Thanks for that most excellent description. It looks like I can go up to 2kg of grain. I have been trying various methods of sparging, but I recently bought a hop sock from craftbrewer that can take a few kg of grain which I used last brew. Basically, I mashed for 60min, added some 80 degree ...

AC,
How do you find your extraction efficiency with that amount of sparge water? I always thought more sparge water was needed, but if you're getting good extraction with that volume I might be able to up the amount of grain in my partials. I'm currently doing extract recipes with a mash of 1kg of ...

Oh and for a truly monsterous stout try this one:
http://www.grainandgrape.com.au/BeerOTM ... ersIRS.htm

I made one last year according to the enhanced kit recipe listed and still have a few left. It is amazingly thick and smooth.

"another 500g of unfermentable sugar on top of that is going to give you a very, very sweet beer"

Hmm maybe, but not necessarily. Lactose isn't all that sweet and I find it adds more body than anything. With my recipe I was going with double the bitterness (2 cans) which probably helped offset the ...

I just used both the yeasts from the cans

LME = liquid malt extract

That recipe of yours looks pretty damn good... you're giving me ideas now. I might have to make my old recipe for old times sake...

G'day mate, I made an awesome stout a few years ago that went something like this:
2x cans of goldrush stout
0.5kg LME
0.5kg dextrose
0.5kg lactose
2x Hallertau hop bags steeped.

From memory it came out around 7.5 to 8 %ish and was thick and smooth like you describe.
You could sub 2 cans of muntons ...

The amount of hops depend on a number of factors such as boil volume and alpha acid percentages of the hops. When I tried my first partial I just about did my head in trying to figure out the IBU etc. I found the best thing I did was I downloaded Beersmith which calculates it all for you. Its really ...

Chris, having tried a single can coopers ginger beer, I'd be very reluctant to recommend a double dose. The coopers can seems to use excessive amounts of artificial sweetener and leaves a bad aftertaste. Best to use a single can and give it some more zing and mask the bad taste by adding a heap of ...

I'm with Wassa, I just sterilise, rinse and then fill all in one go. Obviously I rinse the bottles out after pouring a beer, but they just go into a milk crate until I need them again. Never had a problem in 10 years of brewing with this method. I've never understood why you would need to dry the ...

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BK

Boozer, just bung it all in. A favourite catch phrase of mine when cooking - "bung it all in", with disasterous results sometimes when it comes to chilli :D

I'm not sure if you've done specialty grains before, but I'll assume you haven't.
Steep the grains in say 2-3L of water per kg of grain at 70 ...

earle, I wouldn't recommend adding malt and upping the volume without adding more hops. The MS kits are bittered for 11.5L so if you increase the volume, you will decrease the bitterness making a sweet and very bland beer - believe me, I stuffed up my first extract/partial recipe and ended up with a ...

oops, the volume would help! I made it up to 12L.
I didn't get around to trying to work out efficiency. I probably will for my next brew.

I just mashed in a SS pot with a towel wraped around it. I added about 0.5L of boiling water about half way through the mash to raise the temp a bit as it ...

This is a half batch I did recently, my second crack at doing a partial. Its only a half batch due to my limited equipment.

1kg light DME
1kg Pale Malt (assumed 65% efficiency for 60min mash)
0.1kg crystal malt (in the mash)
0.25kg Dextrose
60 min boil
20gm Amarillo for 60 min (9.5%AA)
10gm ...

I'm not sure what the tap is called, but I can tell you that the creamy head on a kilkenny that you get at the pub is not from the tap alone. They charge the kegs with a mixture of nitrogen and co2, this combined with the fancy nozzle on the tap gives the creamy head.

Cheers
BK