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Thanks Tipsy,

Haven't purchased the system yet - planning a road trip to Germany in October to make the purchase though. Appreciate the feedback on the cleaning - I remember it being a real pain. The Braumeister is expensive but most people have said that it's worth it for the simplicity and ...

I've been away from Australia & making beer for the past eight years now but finally getting to a place where I can get into it once again. Won't be coming back home since I've now settled in Luxembourg after stints in London, Amsterdam & Paris (small apartments in these cities has made brewing ...

Beer awards must involve a considerable degree of luck. I’m a relatively inexperienced brewer (Age 24) but I’ve done quite well at a couple of competitions already. Got a gold at the age of 22 with a beer I made at the tender age of 20. Brew in question was nothing flash & now I’m curious as ...

Heli-Boarding / Snowboarding
Sky-Diving / Bungee Jumping / Base Jumping
Scuba Diving
Surfing
Wakeboarding
White-Water Rafting

And travel to places where I can do all of the above!

lob i rarely consume softdrink i eat fruit every morning i dont put sweetner in any of my food, coffee or cereal
i was swimming 1 kilometre per day and i still have an issue if weight

as far as fat kids todate they spend way too much time on electogizzmos
i bet the likes of warra and similar aged ...

Kimbo,

Simply add around 500-750g of honey when commencing the batch. Just add the kit, honey & sugar with some boiling water (to dissolve) at the start of the batch. Top up to 19L, pitch yeast.

Fermentation with honey tends to take awhile, so be prepared to wait 14-21 days for the fermentation to ...

Although not technically beer, thought I’d make a mention of my newest favourite cider.

All four of the ciders brought out by this Swedish mob are fantastic! They'd have to be given that they’re exported all the way from Sweden. The selection is:
Apple Cider
Pear Cider
Strawberry and Lime ...

Thanks for the feedback.

I'd be doing a full mash to add the additional malt, but now I’m inclined to think that's not the way to go. The honey flavour is dissipating as the malt used for the bulk priming is fermenting. Not yet 3 weeks in the bottle, so I’m putting down the sweetness to ...

but I've made a control batch and now plan to experiment with flavours.

I'll be able to let you know as to the results of several of my GB batches in the coming weeks. I've been playing around with the coopers kit and adding honey, candi sugar, raw, brown sugars and dextrose. Also been using ...

Speaking of this award winning recipe at LCPA, I put down my own variant on Boonie's LCPA some time ago, for good albeit not great results.

The recipe was:
1 can Morgan's Stockman's Draught
1.5Kg LLME (Coopers)
1 KG LDME
20g Cluster @ 15 mins
10g Cascade @ 15 mins
10g Cascade @ 5 mins
20g Chinook ...

I always rack, and often rack twice.

I find that it reduces the eventual sediment and the bottom of each bottle considerably. The second rack is usually more important with batches where a large amount of dry hopping has been put into the secondary and a second rack removes more of the hops from ...

+ 1 for what doc said. Also check out the Federation Square webisite for when the next Microbrewery Showcase is on. I think its quarterly.

This’ll probably sound a little insane however:

April to October is my heavy ale season where I brew strong & speciality ales constantly, most with a 2 week ferment & 2-4 week condition prior to bottling. Each of these brews goes into the 640ml bottles (280no). These beers get aged from 6-24 ...

Pushing past the pleads to Santa Claus, Can anyone suggest any negatives that would be apparent with this system?

Would you get a better result with a full Hermes or similar home-made AG system?

Trizza.

Guys,

This brewery system has come to my attention from the G&G website. It looks really, really cool and sparked my interest for my next major brewery addition. Check out the website for info!
http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/shop_content.php/coID/21/content/The-Braumeister

I've been wanting to ...

Hey guys,

So it has been sitting in my fermenter for 3 weeks now and it's still bubbling approx every 15seconds. Is this normal?

Is it safe to bottle?

As an update in my side-by-side comparison between a batch with all dextrose vs. all raw sugar; I’ve noticed that the one with all dextrose ...

Unfortunately no, I got busy making some regular beer (people kept on bitching about my beer being too strong - bloody pansies) not to be aged for several years and decided against looking at wax coating. I’m currently on my summer beer schedule making lighter beers & GB, but I’ll be back onto ...

How'd this end up going for you mate?

I've got 2 batches nearly ready for bottling now with some slight differences such as Dextrose vs. Raw to see what makes the best batch... I'll let everyone know my full results once I've done some comparison taste testing...

Trizza.

All I can see is that some basic ingredients have been listed, which would help anyone trying to clone an LCPA -
that is surely a positive post, and great information to start a clone with.

Unless something has been deleted before I saw this thread...

Cheers,
Grog

Yup, it's been cut down a lot ...

I might be going out on a limb here, but doesn’t the above constitute the sort of Spam that Oliver was referring to in the explanation for the shutdown of the forum today...