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this is only mysecond starter, I did a 3L starter with mj dry yeast belgium tripel yeast a long time ago Now I'm doing a riwaka kolsch with the white labs pure pitch pack so thought saving some yeast nakes sense so decided to do a 2L starter which is bigger than I need but within the...

Just had minor surgery on my arm at my doctors today. He was fishing out a piece of palm tree spike That came off in my arm about 3 weeks ago when i took one spike quite deeply in my arm when I was beginning the process of removing the tree. I pulled it out and thought it all came out but a...

After getting my mortgage increased to complete my house renovations last month I've been pretty flat out organising renovation stuff etc and havnt had a chance to brew for a while although I might have to soon to fill the pipeline. I had my sparkys in wednesday and thursday and now have 8x12W...

Just noticed I'm nearly out of gas again :-( I rent a size D 6.8Kg cylinder and checking my records I last swapped it 1 Feburary this year so about 6 months ago so I guess not bad I lost count of the number of kegs carbed etc. I might take note next time. Also using it to push sanitiser etc...

A while ago I brought one of these stainless bottle fillers through aliexpress.com and I'm pretty happy with it. I did take me about a year to get to use it as it arrived as i started kegging but when I used it for my belgium tripel it worked well. I had plastic ones drop their friction fit...

I wasnt planning to brew today but was in the mood and my knee wasnt too bad but the pain killers probably didnt help with the mess of a brew day. I brewed a pale ale of 4.7kg ale malt and 250g medium crystal and lots of late motueka hops for a 19l batch. It started going wrong when i realised...

i brought a 1/2 gallon novelty coffee mug LOL Makes a 1 gallon batch look a bit small. I brew 2.5g and 5g or 6g batches but if you like smaller thats fine. This is just a huge cup

Due to my trashed knee starting to get quite bad as the cortisone wares off I need to go easy on it as it barely copes with a weeks work at the moment :-(. I'm not getting more cortisone until 22 June. Winter starting doesn't seem to agree with my knee either. After last week at work my knee...

After using only dry yeast and having to do a starter recently I decided to order some liquid yeasts for up and comming brews. An online homebrew shop i use has a monthly preorder for white labs yeast so should get reasonably fresh. Sort of planning ahead since im not sure when their monthly...

Hi brewers, I was adapting a clone recipe to local ingrediants and modify it to my likeing and realised that all but a few of my all grain brews have been my own recipies. Even my first all grain batch which i did on a freshly constructed eherms was and that came out great and hit all the...

I was at work today and got a call to my mobile asking to speak to me by my full name which was strange. Turned out it was a detective from the nz police drug squad. Apparently ordering scientific glassware from china raised a few flags lol. The full name was interesting as my packages have...

Due to heading towards winter down here the cooler temperatures are slowing down the carbonation of my belgium tripel and will do the same for other brews. My house is pretty well insulated so i haven't used a heater yet this year but the room temp probably gets a little too low for efficient...

just had to vent, had one of those days... I was hoping my trashed arthritic knee would behave for the whole week but the cortisone i had put in it two months ago is wearing off. Its was irritated thursday but friday got worse. It was aching all afternoon at work and i didn't have any of the...

I have sufficient beer in kegs for a couple of months but still wanted to brew so decided to try a belgium tripel at 9.5%ABV and bottle it so it can age. It will likley get bottled this comming weekend. Thinking of what next in the the medium to long term pipeline. Probably try some other...

Thinking of doing my first starter. I'm going to have a go at brewing a 9.5% ABV belgium tripel on the weekend using mangroves jacks M31 belgium tripel dry yeast which i foolishly only ordered one pack of and its not worth the courier for another pack. Liquid yeast is pretty expensive here so...

I had to not brew this weekend as I wanted to make progress on my homemade CNC router/mill Currently building its control panel. A few power up tests of the power supplies and stepper motor drivers. I now need to install the control board and cut holes in the door for a few switches etc. The...

I Decided to build a quick fermentation chamber this afternoon as I realised Saturdays brew was going to need some coolking tomorrow so it gave me incentive to get it working. I had an STC1000 and a fridge ready. Everything else I had sitting around waiting to get round to the project. A bit...

I wasn't planning on doing a batch of beer this Saturday but here I am, HLT heating up and Drill batter charging for the grain crushing. Just in the mood to brew. Kind of cool day, 12C/ 53F, Showers but not bad conditions on my decking to brew with my eHERMS setup. Brewing a Nelson Sauvin...

Brewed up a Motueka hopped pale ale yesterday and my preboil SG was 1 point low but when i tested the fermentor its about 4 to 5 points low but the volume in the fermentor is pretty much right on according to the markings on the bucket Not a biggy but slightly less ABV. Would 1 point low before...

Ive brewed a few stouts and its about time i brewed a lighter beer again. I have it all in beersmith so the changes are easy. I'm thinking of taking my mouteka hop smash made with gladfields ale malt and making some adjustments. Probably shift some hops a little later and maybe add some...