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Tony

Oliver's tasting notes have pretty much nailed it.


That said, Sam Adams is a good step up above US Megaswill, but doesn't come close to what you can get from a good micro.

In terms of the US market, Sam Adams probably has similar market position to Cooper's here in Oz (ie Tier2 in telco-speak ...

Hi Brainface,

Have a look in the cooking aisle at the supermarket. A popular brand is Blue Label - comes in a 550g jar.

I bottled off a cooper's dark w/molasses on Friday night:

1.7Kg can cooper's dark
1.0Kg can morgan's chocolate malt blend
500g LDM
400g molasses (meant to stop at 275g, but ...

Annerly's pretty good. Chapel Hill's pretty good, if you can get past the owner's attitude. He's keen but can be a bit patronizing. I went over the Gaythorne last weekend ands was dissapointed. Incrediblly small range.

Tony

Books I've read on home brewing state that to overcome the possibility of contamination from bacteria and wild yeasts, oxidisation, and the build up of sulphur compounds in the hot wort it should be cooled to yeast pitching temp in about 20m.

The other reason for the quick cool is to get the ...

Lebowski,

Dogger (and most other AGers) boil all (or nearly all) their wort (ie all 23L or so), so there is no significant amount of "cold water in the fermenter" to dump it into.

Also you probably shouldn't just "dump" it into the fermember, because you are risking hot-side aeration of the wort ...

Thanks guys.

I have since read an article on the byo website about darkening being less of an issue if you can do a full-wort boil.

The fermentations are quicker, cleaner and with less esters
Makes sense really - if the complex sugars are being broken down by boiling, they will be more ...

Dogger,

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "why bother?" for both kits and liquid extract. These are already boiled by the manufacturer, so they've done all the work that you would otherwise do if you were boiling an AG wort.

I might just venture futher out on that limb and say "don't ...

No probs.

From your brief description of temps etc, your brew should be fine, but take an SG reading to confirm.

A yeast starter is simply a yeast that has been activated in a small quantity of wort. Its not strictly necessary with a decent quanity of dry yeast, but can help get fermentation going ...

Want to get serious about cider?

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Tony

This drop in temperature is not a problem, in fact it's desirable.

Most ale yeasts perform optimumally at 18-22 degreesC, and best towards the lower end of the scale, if somewhat slower. A good guide to temperatures is the recommendations on the wyeast and whitelabs websites. These guys are yeast ...

grabman wrote:If in a can you can use can opener to take top off and without disturbing the contents wash paint brushes in the the can!

Thanks Grab,

Of course, I'd also forgotten about BBQ cleaning as an alternative use, too, but you'd need a big barbie to need 500ml

Tony

NTRabbit wrote:I'm not sure dry malt even has a use by date.

Yes it does. Well, the Cooper's LDM has a date of some description on it. Can't recall if it's a "use by" or a "best before", but being a foodstuff, at least in Australia, it does have to be dated.

Tony

I'm sorry, but I have to draw the line somewhere. VB on tap or in a stubbie is acceptable, but in a can? Ferget it.

Tony

when I drink a highly commercial beer these days, they dont' taste too good at all. And I think the Hops is the difference.

To be precise, in the case of Australian Beer, Pride of Ringwood is the difference. And no, it doesn't taste too good at all. :-(

In general, adding hops to the boil for ...

Heineken. Had one while I was out the other night, and was almost certain I could detect PoR in it Had a nasty similiarity to XXXX

Tony

I've looked at 640ml longnecks as an option (e.g. those sold by brewcraft). The upside is they will fill a pint glass, leaving just the dregs in the bottle. The downside is they aren't free, or at least don't come wrapped around something loosely labelled as beer

Tony

What about search? Occasionally I go over to aussiehomebrewer to do a search, and then I've got to to try and remember my login and it's a pain in the butt.

Tony

Tried not to, but just couldn't help myself.

Tony

Guest,

That's all a bit rich, don't you think, coming from somebody anonymous?

As for your opinion of K&K - you know how to make friends, don't you? We all started somewhere.

Tony