Recent content by Alx Rains

I have a mate who has a wooden bottle tree that he made a million years ago, and has never had a problem with it. He is a renal dialysis nurse and is "anal" about sanitation so I would reckon that as long as it is clean you would be ok. After all you aren't brewing in a totally sterile...

I scored about a hundred of them a couple of years ago and I reckon they are great! they do save time when bottling and they make a really cool "pop" when you open them!

Yep!, As long as you have a bench capper not an impact capper(one you smack with a hammer)

Yep you've tapped into the knowledge keg alright! must be about 1million years of combined experience here! Welcome to the forum! Fellow canetoad! Alx

Yeah I have used them before and never had aproblem with seals Cheers

G'day, Sorry it has been such a long time to reply but the puter died, Several times over the last couple of months and had to be rebiult from the ground up. only thing original is the tower it comes in. :o Yeah Cheesfood, Coopers would have to be the benchmark when looking at Aussie beers, I...

Hey I just bottled my Coopers Mex. Cervesa on Sunday, I put a Whitelabs mexican lager yeast on it tho. rather than the packet yeast. I didn't , and never have, boiled the tinned extract, only add boiling water and stirring inside the fermenter. So far no problems, Cheers Alx

Um yeah......... title says it all. I'm thinking of doing a Mango beer, Adding it in after initial ferment (Maybe about a week) and letting it sit for a couple of weeks before bottling. Are Wheat beers the only way to go? Thanks in advance Cheers Alx:drunk:

Well I just got home from my yearly 2 weeks holiday, spending 1/2 of it setting up and enjoying a folk music festival/with Home brew comp. It was fun, Winning the h/b Comp again was also fun! Surprisingly tho the brews that I expected to place didn't get a mention(Judge biased against Cider-...

Mango, Pineapple, make excelllent cider flavourings, I have a mango madness blupping away now, 3kg of fresh mango in 20lt of cider,mmmmmmmmm. can't wait! You should just be able to pick a friut that you like and bung some in, after all there are no rules that can't be bent in the name of...

I had the same problem with my "Bottling Buddy" Too much head space!. I solved the problem by drilling a small hole in the end of the tip and inserting a long thin stainless steel screw, thereby cutting down on the displacement if the implement, and allowing me to fill the bottles "fuller" Alx

No No NO These are no good! Quickly Send them all to my house Now!

There shouldn't be any problem with leaving it for 2 weeks in the feremter, as long as you have enough fermenters to keep you happy, leaving it for an extra week might settle the sediment a litttle better and less likely to be disturbed while you are bottling. Also moving the fermeter as little...

I once tried to convert a non alcohlic ginger beer recipe to an alcoholic ginger beer, using the recipe given by a friend, the original recipe(using only fresh ginger) only made a couple of litres so I extrapolated the amounts to make 23 lt. It seemend to brew out properly but the end product...

Well the missus used up the last of my stout supply a while back and wants to do some beef and beer pies over winter so a stout will be on the go tommorrow. but to remind me of summer I'm also doing another Mango/apple cider this time with 3 times the mango! should be three times as good!