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Home Brewing Biography: I currently have a fairly minimal setup. I have a 20L stockpot for boiling, a 20L bucket, a 15L fermenter, 4 x 5L demijohns, a hose, hydrometer, 4 airlocks, a plastic mash paddle, and a large grain bag for whole mashes. I don't do false bottoms.
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City: Blue Mountains

State/Province: NSW

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Posted in thread: Lapsang Souchong porter on 02-07-2013 at 02:19 PM
Markcurling... results?
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 01-13-2013 at 08:25 PM
A post I saw a couple of pages back about the use of heavily hopped wort intrigued me. Does
hopping reduce the likelihood of growing mould, in addition to bacteria? Mould is the main
thing that stops ...
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 01-09-2013 at 11:58 AM
Interesting. If you wanted to get a good feel for the lambic-ness of it, I'd actually do a
lambic wort (minus aged hops) with unmalted wheat instead of malted, as that's what the
bacteria munches on. ...
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 01-08-2013 at 06:53 PM
The minimash sounds like quite a good idea, and cheaper than extract, which is what I used last
time I tried this, a long time ago.Anyway, I've been planning to brew a Saison soon since it's
Summer he...
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 01-08-2013 at 07:06 AM
What's a "minimash allgrain starter"? Did you just mash a handful of grain? Is it hopped?
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 01-03-2013 at 11:28 PM
Cool. Did you taste the product at all?
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 12-18-2012 at 05:29 AM
i have a wild fermenting cider going at the moment (i do at least 1 per year), i took a bit of
the foamy top surface, diluted, plated out on both DME and DME + chloramphenicol25 +
cyclohexamide50. bot...
Posted in thread: Howto: Capture Wild Yeast on 12-03-2012 at 04:43 AM
I tried and failed several times in winter to catch em. It MIGHT have been the rain.
Posted in thread: Mulberry Wine (lots of MATH in here!) on 12-03-2012 at 03:37 AM
Mulberry wine can be ever-so-fine - if you know how to make it well! ;)
Posted in thread: Wild Rice on 11-29-2012 at 04:30 AM
Since there was such a small quantity of rice, it boiled over a couple of times very quickly.
The walnut aroma was strong throughout the cooking but unfortunately is not very prominent in
the cooked p...