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If you decide to keg your beer, it is really handy to be able to use Co2 to push your beer from a fermenter to a keg (aiming for a closed transfer & minimising oxygen pickup). A spunding valve on the receiving keg makes that process easier. Filling your (purged) kegs by weight (sitting the keg...

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An immersion chiller - going to try a hop stand. I've had success with 'whirlpool' additions (hop addition at end-of boil, stir & let sit for 30 minutes). With the immersion chiller I'm planning to do a whirlpool addition, then bring the temp down to between 71C & 77C, add more hops, stir and...

If the bottle shop had magic carpet delivery from US to Australia, there'd be a number including... Avery - Ellie's brown Left hand - Milk stout Firestone-Walker - Union Jack Lagunitas - Little Sumpin Sumpin Rogue - Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout Stone - Arrogant bastard Its a mix of the beers...

At least 50 batches aerated using those bernzomatic oxygen canisters, with no in-line filter & no crook flavours from the resulting beer.

Immersion elements are great. I used one for a long-time when I had a ten gallon cooler and stockpot. It was handy for both heating mash-water in the cooler, and boiling the wort. I used to hang it over the side of a mash paddle which straddled the diameter of the cooler/stock-pot. It was a...

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