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Definitely a strange beer. The honey, chamomile and oak chips are all fighting each other to be the dominating flavour.
Maybe it would've been a lot more balanced if the oak was french rather than american.

Entered in the Schwartz Brewery Winter Warmer competition,
One judge decribed it as ...

Yes, it's fun, but at least i could afford Marris Otter malts & more fermenters and such.

Bottled last night.
OG dropped to 1002.
Very interesting flavour... shall post again when I taste it.

Well it's almost ready to be bottled.
Unfortunately I stuffed up my evaporation rates, so it's a tad diluted.
Also a wasp somehow made it's way into the mash, so I guess that adds to the honey theme hey?!
OG= 1044 ish
FG = 1006 ish

Taste is very interesting, All three flavours, honey, chamomile and ...

Here's my AG variation, ready for tomorrow night

4.5 kg. Australian Traditional Ale
.125 kg. Crystal Malt 60°L
.08 kg. Melanoidin Malt
.5 kg. English Amber Malt
.5 kg. Honey
30 g. Fuggle 4.4 %AA @ 60 min.
30 g. Fuggle 4.4 %AA @ 30 min.
100 g American Oak Chips @30min
9 teabags Chamomile Tea @25min ...

It's defintely a recipe I've got my eye on doing.

Aaaaaah!!!
Now that explains it!

Still sad when I go in and there's no reply though....

Cheers Boonie

I keep getting topic reply notifications, but the last time anyone replied (actually I was the last poster) was in september... anyone else had this?

http://www.frozberries.com.au/products.php

This place seems to have great prices on berries. I still need to get my arse up there for some raspberries.

With the risk of going off topic, here's my coconut effort. Not exactly a stout...
Bounty Oud Bruin
1.7kg Coopers Dark Ale
1kg DDME
150g Choc Grain (steep)
100g Melanoidin (steep)
500g Coconut Sugar
200ml Coconut Cream
11g Styrian Goldings (20min)
10g Styrian Goldings (dry hopped)
WLP500 Trappist ...

Back on the gas bottles. it's time for another dumb question.
how much does an empty gas bottle & a full gas bottle weigh?
Does a 9kg gas bottle mean it holds 9kg, or is that the empty weight?
Are gas gauges worth it?

Ah, at least there's KnK's... I can brew as many of these suckers, as they only take 10min to whack together.
typical time constraints with a wife & bub.

Cheers Tazman,
Next AG up is a Saison. Planning on my AG's being mainly big, exciting beers, seeing as I'll only be doing a few AG's a year, due to time.
Just have to stock up on hops, measure out grain, get it cracked, then book in a brewday on the calendar with SWMBO.

Cheers Warra
Big thanks to fellow brewers who gave me input.... mainly to go liquid yeast instead of dry.

This one came third in the NSW State Homebrew Comp. Scored 108.5/150.
I'm cheering!
I must frame that 3rd place certificate for the brewery wall.

I have a case worth left, which I'm trying to cellar... but it's hard not to have one.

Dr Smurto, I've used the CPA kit only once, with just a BE2 and 25g Nelson Sauvin dry hopped.
The flavour of the NS was awesome, but next time I'd do it again with 100% malt. I'm leaving BE's behind now.

EDIT hows' that... I just realised I've already posted. and got my recipe wrong.
That'll teach ...

how do you reckon this would go with S-33, or WLP029 yeast?

Enjoyed the first one last night. Twas soooo good I had to have another!
Tastes like a belgian!

I scored a handful of BiLo Draught cans earlier this year, and so far haven't had much luck with them, flavour wise.
I have one can left, but might just give it to my brother instead.

Funnily enough I was sober while brewing this one. Something to do with mashing in at 7am.
I'm not really a breakfast beer guy, but you'd think I was from the mess I made.