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Hey Tourist,

I made sure both malts were nice and hot (10 min in the sink filled with really hot water) and poured them into the fermenter with 4 litres of warm water from the specialty grains. It looked like it was desolved nicely though would it need a litre or two of boiling water to properly ...

Hey all,

I've just done my first AG brew today (took hours!)...it seemed a little bitter straight out of the fermeter but hopefully I got the hop IBU reasonably right. I screwed up the boil volume and ended up 6 litres short which wasn't so flash but...1st time I expected some stuff ups.

But ...

I think I've opened a can of worms here as I can't seem to find a 'food safe' silicone sealant.

Quite a few are ok for 'incidental' food contact (not I'm imagining hour long 70 degree sessions) or seem to be ok for aquariums (but don't like polyethelene or polypropeline which I beleive eskys are ...

Ah, if I need to do it again, I'll try the tape, chisel or angle grinder rather than the saw!

I once had to cut braided wire for a balcony without a decent cutter and the grinder did the trick really well.

Ok...the problem...I just realised that the silicone sealant wasn't food safe...dolt...

I ...

Hi all,

I've used Kevins (and a few off YouTubes) ideas to cobble up an Esky based Lauter Tun.

It was all going well till I had to cut the stainless steel braided hose...how do you cut this stuff without it going madly stringy and spiking you like hundreds of little blood seeking needles?

I tried ...

Hey Rob,

I checked it at about 24 degrees...I'm going to grab another hydrometer tomorrow (even though it's brand new) as both the Porter and the Belgium seemed to be way out.

It was strange that the Porter which should have had the higher OG weighed in lower than the belgium. If they'd both been ...

If I do a basement level K+K and flash it up with a real yeast and some finishing hops it's still going to come out at around $28
(Coopers Pale Ale tin ($12.50 at Coles), 1kg of BE1 ($6), 1pkt SafeAle $5, 25 gm Hops $5)

I added some honey from Aldi, some specialty grains (which are dirt cheap), a ...

Hi all,

I put a porter in today...21 litres and it had a 1.7kg tin of Cascade Porter, 1.5kg liquid light malt, 1kg of DDM, 500gm Maltodextrin, 250ml Honey, 200gm Crystal and 200gm Choc malt...and it came out as 1.045!!

The brew calc said it should have clocked in at 1.088...this is very very low ...

Hi all,

I just wanted to find out if rinsing PET bottles after pouring the beer (or the very next morning) in cold/hot water to get rid of any beer sediment (so they are visibly clean) and then drying and then adding no rinse sanitser to them before bottling is enough to stop infections.

Should I ...

Fantastic...now I can progress onto some much improved partial grain beers which I bitter myself!

Thanks for everyone's help.

Cheers,
BrewHaus

ok...I think I'm now understanding this...

I've plugged a 21 litre batch with a 4litre boil into the recipe section of Beersmith with .5kg of LDM (for a rough 1.046-1.050 OG), added 50gms of 4.5% fuggles for 60 min boil and then added 12.5gms of 5% goldings for 10 min for aroma (and a little ...

Ok, I'm really confused now...

I'm trying kitchen partials where I use a couple of kilos of grain and then added LDME and/or extract/dex etc to make up the rest of the fermentables rather than using just a 1.7kilo tin of Coopers and a kilo of LDME.

I've read that when you try this method, it's ...

Thanks for all the help everyone with the partial query...I've now got one about bittering hops and IBU.

I know the amount of bitterness comes from OG, water level, hop alpha acid level and boil time but I'll a little confused about the times people are saying regarding hop boil time.

I've read in ...

Hmm...I didn't actually re-wash the grain after I drained it though I did stir it (really well) a number of times while it was steeping. As this was my first time with grain (and only my 5th brew) I wasn't exactly sure with the process of adding grain into the brew using a noob and kitchen friendly ...

I had a candy thermometer constantly in the mash and it maintained 65-67 degrees for the whole 60 min with no deviation between these two points.

The method: I heated 6 litres of water (3 litres per kilo ratio) to 67 degrees in a 15 litre pot and threw the 2 kilos in for the 60 min.

Then strained ...

It was Joe White malted trad ale grain (cracked) which Dave from Greensborough home brewing said would be ok for kitchen mashing.

I did the crystal by itself and then boiled it for 15min after straining and added it to the main wort. I bittered the hops with just water and LDM according to Beer ...

Hi all,

I brewed a partial the other day with 2kg of grain plus some added malt and hops.

It was a 'kitchen' type mash where I soaked 2kg of grain in 6 ltrs of water @ 66 degrees for 60 min and then 'sparged' it (though it was really just straining it) into another pot. I then added a kilo of LDM ...

Thanks Doc,

Congrats...top beer at the show and 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th!...these are some really great recipes for me to work toward. I'll give one a go for my next brew.

Cheers,
BrewHaus

Thanks Drsmurto,

The guy at the HB shop said something similar yesterday. He used to do AG but found it just too time consuming and found using a couple of cans, LDM, some grains and good quality yeast and hops created a pretty decent brew in no time at all.

I've got a big pot so will try doing my ...

Hi All,

I was just about to embark on my third brew and after reading loads of helpful posts on HB, I'm a little confused about a couple of things; hopefully someone will be able to straighten me out a bit.

Coopers BE1 and BE2 have been recommended for a number of brews, esp PA and IPA's.

I like ...