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by mr beer
Monday Jul 31, 2006 9:05 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Beer Gut
Replies: 46
Views: 51011

betta spread the word around uni then that beer has less calories than wine, so all my female friends will stop punishing themselves with cheep "goon" bags of "Sunnyvale" and "Kiser s(lut)"

the stuff tastes awful and gets you fat, it really should be taken off the market, and we should all drink ...
by mr beer
Saturday Jul 01, 2006 5:17 pm
Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
Topic: Alcoholic Lemonade
Replies: 50
Views: 91301

melb man
thinking of doing a lemonade myself, just wondering what is "yeast nutrient"
thanks
by mr beer
Monday Jun 19, 2006 4:09 pm
Forum: Buy, swap and sell
Topic: Home brew shop, Melbourne, for kegging stuff, commercial
Replies: 0
Views: 3292

Home brew shop, Melbourne, for kegging stuff, commercial

Hi,
I found this adaptor to connect corny poppet valves to a commercial coupler.
Its partway downe the page, 3rd from bottom

http://www.northernbrewer.com/liquid-hardware.html

I would love to get one, but does anyone know of a brew shop that would stock such a thing.
I bidded up to $90 for a ...
by mr beer
Wednesday Jun 14, 2006 6:57 pm
Forum: The beer you buy
Topic: The world's worst beer?
Replies: 263
Views: 292355

The worst I've ever tasted was sold as a premium at Norton in Carlton, I don't know what the real definition of a premium beer is but I'm sure this didn't meet the criteria, NEAVER try a beer called PISS it tastes just like its name.

PISS, it would taste better when it comes out into the urinal ...
by mr beer
Wednesday Jun 14, 2006 11:47 am
Forum: Buy, swap and sell
Topic: Chasing up empty long necks
Replies: 54
Views: 85242

ADHD, I thought i should warn you to keep the clear Hahns permium lite bottles away from light when you store them, as the light can kill the yeast and the beer will not prime/condission well.

I use fosters and VB screw top tallies, scored 120 of them just from 2 college funtions, (uni melb ...
by mr beer
Saturday Jun 10, 2006 9:54 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Best to use for 2 can brew
Replies: 34
Views: 11971

wouldnt worry ash, it will be ok,
could be good uf you you made it up to 30lt.

I wouldnt worry about infections if you want to add stuff to it, infection risk is over rated, ive done some stupid shit, like pushing the airlock grummet into the mix and sticking my arm in to get it, and the beer was ...
by mr beer
Friday Jun 09, 2006 4:26 pm
Forum: Buy, swap and sell
Topic: cub coupler fittings with corny plugs!
Replies: 0
Views: 2929

cub coupler fittings with corny plugs!

I found a tooheys keg coupler with male corny plugs mounted on the inlet and outlet on ebay


This would work great if i could fit out a CUB coupler like this: it wuld symplify all my connections as i interchange between cornys and CUB kegs:
but does anyone know where i could get the right thred ...
by mr beer
Wednesday Jun 07, 2006 5:03 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Best to use for 2 can brew
Replies: 34
Views: 11971

use a 60lt fermenter here as well, r.magnay
I mix between kegging and bottleing, with a few 50 and 20lt kegs. bottleing/ cleaning is a real factory line here, liveing in a uni college, ive got a few brewing mates here and we often have bottling nights, and allways end up roling drunk and breaking ...
by mr beer
Saturday May 20, 2006 7:32 pm
Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
Topic: evil girl made me make cider,
Replies: 9
Views: 8017

tryed the cider last night, not bad at all, its only been in the bottle maby 5 days or so and its allready starting to taste better, The acidic taste it had is no longer as strong :D , Ill give it a bit longer and see how it goes, Only prob is that one went bang last night and im worried that i ...
by mr beer
Saturday May 20, 2006 10:33 am
Forum: Cider, ginger beer, lemonade, wine, mead . . .
Topic: Lemonade
Replies: 18
Views: 33307

Thinking of doing this my self, as there are some lemosn around me at the moment, just wondering
how alckoholic do you think it tastes?
how long did you rack it?
how sweet?
is there any alterations u would sujjest?

Thanks, James
by mr beer
Friday May 19, 2006 11:57 pm
Forum: Bargain bin
Topic: Cheap Kegs
Replies: 1
Views: 4467

7 days left for bidding, thell go up a lot more!
by mr beer
Wednesday May 17, 2006 11:31 pm
Forum: Kegging
Topic: kegging
Replies: 6
Views: 8993

$420, verry steep.
Set mine up in bits, from e-bay, took a while, me being a pruish bargin hunter!
19lt ball lock kegs, not recon $60each (picked up locally)
Beer tap $20 (not verry good one) (got of same bloke as kegs)
Keg connectors, $45 inc post
Regulator, single gague (Harris) $15 ($25 inc ...
by mr beer
Wednesday May 17, 2006 11:07 pm
Forum: Buy, swap and sell
Topic: free longnecks melb
Replies: 5
Views: 4850

if those bottles arnt clamed yet Im keen!
by mr beer
Wednesday May 17, 2006 10:48 pm
Forum: Bargain bin
Topic: Coopers Kits at Big-W
Replies: 4
Views: 7675

just picked up 3 pale ales from safeway (lygon street) for $9.85, a bargen in my books, I think all the basics were allso at this price, so i assume they have put the price in there computer wrong!, they usally dont stock the premium stuff.
eather way, im happy
by mr beer
Wednesday May 17, 2006 10:30 pm
Forum: Recipes
Topic: lo carb beer
Replies: 11
Views: 9140

If you want to limit carbs in your died, u should cut back on the less necessasary carb intakes, like food, not beer.
by mr beer
Wednesday May 17, 2006 7:54 am
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Filtering and naturally conditioning,
Replies: 4
Views: 2022

thanks dogger,
Just wondering how fine that filter of yours is?
by mr beer
Tuesday May 16, 2006 9:11 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: What are returnable beer bottles?
Replies: 6
Views: 2884

sorry to try and currect you all, but im shure that the term returnable bottles is for the older crowne seal tallies, which have much thicker glass than the regular bottles these days. the old bottles had written on them that they remain the property of the brewerey, and the brewerey used to reuse ...
by mr beer
Tuesday May 16, 2006 4:40 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Filtering and naturally conditioning,
Replies: 4
Views: 2022

Filtering and naturally conditioning,

I was told by a friend that with coopers Pale ale, the beer is filtered and another yeast is added when it is primed in the bottle.
I bought a wine filter, for $10 on ebay, I read that the same filter can be used for beer on another blog.
:idea: I was wondering if i filtered a pale ale i've got on ...
by mr beer
Tuesday May 16, 2006 1:38 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: 50lt tripple batch pail ale, 16lt/can
Replies: 6
Views: 2532

I hope so, im gunna crack it in allmost 2 months for a hell of a party!
Its bubling away right now, "like a open co2 tank dropped in a pool", its only on 20deg c, I allmost want to cool it downe, because it is so bloudy
vigerous
by mr beer
Monday May 15, 2006 7:46 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: to bottle or not
Replies: 4
Views: 1901

go for it,
just dont leave it somewhere where it will make a mess if there are a few bottle bombs. if there is no one to clean it if for 3 weeks, it could be messy.