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Oliver wrote:
Does anyone else do it?

Cheers,

Oliver

Not yet... but....

Hey Bryan, checking how you went with porting your number. All good?

Dave

Keep us appraised of how you fare Crazyman. I am sick to the back teeth of Telstra, but can't go without the coverage.

Same here in rural Vic. I am a Paramedic, and use my phone a fair bit at work. I hate Telstra with a passion, but no other provider had coverage out here. Got a Nokia Lumia blue tick phone, and coverage is decent.

Anyone know about the Aldi or Kogan plans? Apparently they use the Telstra network ...

They want you to drink the wine.

It is a good plan. I would just advise you to nut it out first on a piece of paper, and get all your bits and pieces together. PM me your email, and I will shoot you the tools I use.

Melykabeer

It is a slippery slope mate.

You start out popping tins of goop into a fermenter. Then you start messing about with hop additions and specialty malts. Then you are using calculators to work out malt profile and IBU's. Then.... :shock:

Sometimes you end up with a micro brewery. Ask ...

I made a coopers yeast starter a couple of years ago, doing much as you did, with sugar. Mine worked ok, but a few chaps pointed out to me that there is nothing much in sugar to get a healthy yeast population going, and that I ought to have used Malt instead. Given I am doing AG now, I use the last ...

Yeah that label is dreadful nonsense. I did enjoy the Red Duck labels, which just read, 'does not contain any real ducks'.

Had dinner at the Bright Brewery a week or so back. They have a few pretty decent brews on tap there. Unfortunately, they don't do tasting paddles on busy days, and the food was almost as bad as the service.

Been working slowly thru some of the specialties from Red Duck. A couple of so-so beers, but a few crackers.

White Garden - a wheat beer with rhubarb and raspberry jam in it.
Dude where's my cherry - summer ale fermented with cherries.
Belgian Vanilla Porter - amazing. A porter with vanilla added ...

At this point I don't reckon I can get in. There are only a couple of bottles of the golden ale left, and they have been exposed to some pretty hardcore temps in the shed this summer. The other two beers I have in stock have both developed a curious flavour; not undrinkable, but NQR all the same. I ...

Tipsy wrote:

big dave wrote:Nearly the end of Feb....

Well done for tackling it and well done for choosing the shortest month of the year

SWMBO dared me to go all of April last year. That was at least a couple of days too long.

Holgate's in Woodend do one - Gruit Expectations. Been a while since I had one, but from memory it is a sweet, herby brew. I don't think it comes bottled, so you would need to visit (which I would recommend anyway). I would call it an acquired taste.

Nearly the end of Feb....

Doing the February fast, so no beer for a bit. Not struggling too hard yet, but today is just the 5th....

Don't apologise for using US05. I love it. Make up a starter from your last run wort. I have just used liquids for my last two brews, and will probably give them one or two more runs. If I don't see a decent improvement, it will be back to the US05.

Glad you liked it Tipsy.

Good on yer Doc. Most of us here have had a dip at it. Or two. Or four.... Has become the benchmark.

Welcome to the friendly little forum Fritz.

I have an old fridge that I use for ironing out the extremes of temperature. Usually I dont even plug it in, although I also dont usually brew during the heat of summer or the coldest bits of winter. And having brewed twice with a lager yeast over this ...