Recent content by lukem

Hey all, I have so far only been doing a few brew with a pre-packaged kit, where you just add your malt sugers a few other hops etc and yeast. I have been reading more and more of you guys boiling up the wort yourself with all the grains etc. It seems you have to boil up the whole 23 liters...

Thanks, I have not drank half of it, though I very well could :) My brother and I have just tasted a couple each. Oh well I'm started a second batch this weekend, and I'm going to get a secondary. Should be good.

Hi. A while ago I did post asking about my brew as it was around 28C while fermenting, everyone said it would be fine it could just have some 'banana or off flavors'. I was hoping to get some advice on improving my next brew. It has been bottled for 2.5 weeks and I have had a little taste...

Ok I took a reading using the hydrometer, I kinda of feel dumb it took me awhile to realize how to read it :) It says 1.012. This one has colours for when to bottle things and the beer is yellow that sits around1.000-1.008 then its black colour till 1.012. Oh well I do not know, I tasted it...

Hehe nice Dibby. I'm in Melbourne, and it got to 42C or something on Sunday, I also live in a smallish apartment which can get quite hot during the day when I'm at work. The wet towel seems to work great, keeps it at a better temp, I also have it in a cupboard. Hopefully it will not taste...

Hey Dibby, How you keeping your brews temp down is this hot weather? Or you somewhere nice and cool anyway? Also what temp do you try to get it down to? Cheers,

Thanks all. I do have a hydrometer, so I will measure it tonight after work. I'm glad to hear I have not killed them, or ruined it completely, it may just have some strange flavors :) If it does have strange flavors that I do not like, is there anyway to get rid of them? Thanks again...

Hey all, I started my very first brew on Saturday. Just using a pretty standard Munich Lager brewkit. I was worried that I may have put the yeast in while it was too hot, room temp was around 29C. I know it was properly a bad idea, I was in a hurry and was not thinking. However it did...