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G'day all. What an interesting site! i'm sure this will be invaluable for "renaissance" brewers like myself. I've always loved new and interesting beers and have just once again engaged in the art. I have rather vague memories of a Kit called "Olinda" from the early 70s plus brewing from scratch in old honey tins with generally undesirable results. Things have looked up. I should add that my local Mitre 10 hardware (Armidale, nsw) has a 80% reduction on beer brewing kegs- 450 minus 80 % good value?. Regards to you all.

As Pauline said, please explain

Normell

G'day Glen,
I have vague recollections of those Olinda brew kits, although I was too busy with the bought stuff those days, but I doubt they were around in the early seventies, I was doing my apprenticeship then and it was still illegal to make homebrew then. Plenty of peolpe did make it but I wouldn't have thought a kit would have been around.

Ross, I think Olinda surreptitiously suggested how to boost their kits - no great science there. In 1972 or 73 the Whitlam govt Abolished this stupid unenforceable law. Still the dark ages withe bakers yeast hops from health food shops and thje redoubtale Cornwalls malt extract boiled wheat in 10 gallon honey tins. some quite good brews came out of this t5hough. Regards Glen

I hsten to add that the law stipulated that home brew will not exceed 2%. That of course changed wiht a new govt.

Glen,
I happen to own an old Olinda fermenter. I received it as a gift from a friend with whom I lived in a share house back in the day.
I'll get a picture of it up on web site shortly.
Does anybody else have any old or unusual fermenters? Perhaps we could get together an archive?
Geoff

Geoff,

Apparently I do, I have a 19 L glass secondary. On a sad note, lost my 15 year old primary yesterday after I put my boot through it.

Dog should be thanking me, saved his life did that fermentor.

Dogger

I notice you have a tendency to kick stuff, there Dogger.
ie. dog, fermenter ...

Bit of pentup stress?

Maybe you don't brew enough homebrew

Sure this will already have been dealt with on another thread but anyway.....

Have had an offer of a (or two) Tooheys keg/s. They hold 50 litres. Can I buy taps and fittings to match or are the fittings specific to the brand?

I figure two 23L fermenters will do the job but will this leave too much air space in the keg, given approx 43-44 litres drawn from them

I assume that even if I rack first,there will be sediment left in the keg. How hard is this to remove - how hard is it to clean a keg??

Ta for the help

BK,

Bugger got into the malt, if I new how to load the gun, he would be dead.

Dogger