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Well, it is a sad day for me, but I am selling my complete brewing outfit. The lot, everything. I haven't brewed for a while, as I have been too busy with other things, and I have come to the sad realisation that alcohol and I do not mix. And with a baby on the way in a few months now is the...

Spotted this yesterday while out exploring. :D Cheers, Jake

I thought there would already be a thread about this, but having just got home from my own birthday outing I thought I should pass my best wishes onto the good Dr. :icon_cheers: :party: :icon_drunk: Cheers, Jake

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Ok, I know the very minimum basics of this, which is that a warmer mash will result in a sweeter, maltier beer, and a cooler mash should result in a drier beer with greater attenuation. But is there more to it than that? Anything else the new brewer needs to know? Any other characteristics that...

I know, Im showing my geekiness :D but I was intrigued by all that talk the other day regarding wort chilling, and the need to use agitators to speed up the process. Well I made the effort today while cooling my wort with my crappy home made chiller, to log the temps every minute throughout...

For Sale: 3 x Andale Floryte Taps Included: 1 x Tap kit (as pictured) Cost: $100 + Postage for ALL 3 Location: Gladstone, Qld 4680 Payment: Direct Credit PLEASE PM if interested! First PM gets the sale. The astute AHBer will recognise these taps as the ones that Doglet was selling here a...

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Someone a little while back posted some pics from a brewery (cant remember where/who) and an information plaque on the wall of the brewery mentioned a warm phase of fermentation. I got the impression that they were talking about initially fermenting at cool temps, then bringing the temp up...

Well, I knew a new manifold had to be made, and I knew I wanted it to be soldered not just pin punched. So I went out and purchased a MAPP burner and some silver solder rods and taught myself how to do it....cant be too hard I thought, plumbers do it all the time :D It didnt take me too long...

Today I brewed my 3rd AG. I thought it was supposed to get easier? :rolleyes: On the menu today was Ross's Nelson Sauvin summer Ale. I followed his recipe to the letter, although I dont think I used the exact wheat malt that he uses. Hit my mash temp of 64 spot on which was nice. Then I set...

Can someone explain to me why all the kettle drains I am seeing exit the kettle so high up the sides? Like this: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...st&p=278332 This is what I think I understand so far: 1. The pipe goes through the hop screen and stops an inch or two above the...

I have to say I was stunned this morning when I searched AHB for the Camra Guide and found only 1 thread having CAMRA in it's title. :unsure: There are however quite a few mentions of CAMRA throughout AHB of course, but Im now wondering how many of you have this excellent book...

Ive pretty much read through all the threads on here about kegs, and from what I can gather the standout kegs with legality issues are those from CUB. But it seems there are a lot of Tooheys kegs that may be legally purchased? What others? I dont want to get caught out with something I...

Now that Im an old hand at AG brewing, with 2 under my belt :P , Im not sure what to have a go at next. There are so many recipes to try I just dont know where to start. :blink: What would you say is a shortlist of MUST BREW recipes? (particularly from the AHB database of course) Im open to...

Im thinking about installing a 2nd tap on the side of my fermenters about half way up, for the purpose of getting more accurate SG readings. Im just not all that convinced that the standard tap is far enough away from the trub/yeast cake. Anyone else bothered to do this? Cheers, Jake

Ive searched, honest I have....:) I'm doing my 2nd AG on Sunday (work permitting - I'm on call), and this time I'm armed with some specialty malts. These only require steeping not mashing, but isnt that basically the same thing? Can I just whack them in with the base malt and treat them all as...

I know there will always be a place for a tried and true recipe, especially for the beginner like me. But how many of you just make it up as you go along? Say, whack in some carared just because you have some, or something else on brew day on a whim. Or even make up your own recipe days before...

I'm going away for 2 weeks and would like to put down a kits n bits this arvo for when I come home. As I wont be home to change the ice bombs in the esky that houses my fermenter I have 2 choices. 1. Do an Ale, and allow it to ferment at ambient temp which at the moment is never lower than high...

You know, I first started thinking about brewing AG only a few short weeks ago, and it was only a few short weeks before then (10th Nov actually) that I put down my first K&B after 20 yrs out of HB. So naturally I searched the forums for guidance, and poked around the net here and there, hoping...