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- Sunday Jun 01, 2008 12:42 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: I'm so excited, one step up and cheaper....
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13667
Re: I'm so excited, one step up and cheaper....
Who doesnt love the fresh smell of hops and boiling malt. except most women. must be a special man-beer bond that exists naturally in nature. on the smell of hops and pot, you guys realize that hops and weed are of the same essential genetic family. i have even thought about using some as a hop ...
- Tuesday Jun 05, 2007 7:52 pm
- Forum: Recipes
- Topic: beginner stout
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10169
i did a stout recently for the old boy. always cringed at stout, until this beast. coopers stout tin, 1.5 kg of ldme and 1 kg of ddme tin yeast, brewed at around 20 deg for 2 weeks and racked for 2 weeks, lovely beer rich and smokey with bitter start and sweet finish, opened my eyes to stout. just ...
- Tuesday May 08, 2007 10:09 pm
- Forum: Kegging
- Topic: 50 Litre kegs...How can I??
- Replies: 52
- Views: 86710
pickeling takes the carbon off the surface of stainless, as long as you can finish the material properly and make sure you clean it properly i sont see a problem. im looking at flap wheeling the inside and then rubbing it back in steps to around a wet dry 2000+ grit finish to try and avoid any rough ...
- Monday May 07, 2007 8:02 pm
- Forum: Kegging
- Topic: 50 Litre kegs...How can I??
- Replies: 52
- Views: 86710
- Sunday May 06, 2007 5:37 pm
- Forum: Kegging
- Topic: 50 Litre kegs...How can I??
- Replies: 52
- Views: 86710
yeah been working with metal for 8 years and am now 25 so abit of my life, been working with steel and stainless until just recently, got a job doing balustrade's and fences all aluminium and all tig work, been a while since i have done stainless tig but im sure it wont be a problem, i have cut the ...
- Sunday May 06, 2007 11:02 am
- Forum: Kegging
- Topic: 50 Litre kegs...How can I??
- Replies: 52
- Views: 86710
so nobody has modified a 50L keg to just connect up to the normal post mix style posts. im just abount to do a cub keg. i have a 18L coke keg all stainless top and one freshly aquired cub 50L. looking at cutting the whole top bowl of the 18L the cutting and trimming the 50L to suit and welding it ...
- Wednesday Mar 28, 2007 11:07 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: Brigalow fermentation lock
- Replies: 47
- Views: 28307
i have only ever used tap water for the airlock and my sanatising routine is brew finished rinse, scrub with soft brush, rinse, put pinkstain in fill to 5L splash around fermenter for 30 secs pour some out tap. rinse , rinse again and brew. never pulled my taps apart in over 4 years (had dregs of a ...
- Tuesday Mar 27, 2007 9:25 pm
- Forum: Spirits
- Topic: dex with or without carbon??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5577
- Tuesday Mar 27, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: Spirits
- Topic: dex with or without carbon??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5577
dex with or without carbon??
i have a mate with a still and am able to borrow it. i know he buys the dex with the carbon fragments in it.is it ok if i just use plain dex? as i have a shit load and havnt been able to find out if the carbon for the filtering is the same as whats in the pack and what ratio it has to be and dont ...
- Friday Mar 23, 2007 3:08 pm
- Forum: Making beer
- Topic: stopped bubbling after two days....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7671
most of you will flame me for this but i have done it a few times with no problems at all. if you have something to rack the beer to do so, then rack back to the fermenter this wil airate the wort and will kick the yeast back into life and it doesnt work if you just try to airate the wort with a ...