Recent content by BeNZ

Tonight I bottled! Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, the end come off the bottling wand beer everywhere! One of the containers tipped over as it got near the bottom, beer everywhere again! After 2 days in the fridge, I racked the beer in the garage straight out of the fridge into...

Amazing. Great talent!

I've got the temperature sitting at 4°C at the moment. This should be OK for the 3 or 4 days? When you say warm up do I bring it up to the ambient temprature (around 10-12°C) will be enough? Or bit warmer? Cheers.

Yes in the garage has to be the best option. Out of sight so there's no temptation to play around with it, especially in my house the kids will be all over it. I'm in Invercargill, no doubt we will be at a bidding war with each other at some point for something on trade me haha. So much gear...

Fermentation has finished with 2 consistent readings of 1.009 on the hydrometer. Says in the kit instructions that's what we are aiming for so that's cool, I didn't get a SG before fermentation which is probably a rookie mistake and I know not really necessary for kits bit it's a probably a...

I added the hops tonight and got to have a peek at the brew. Took the lid off and got a good whiff, smells really good. Getting into freezing tempratures over night now but temperature is holding well in the cupboard. I reduced the temprature down to 20.5°C 2 days in after reading more about...

I was a bit unsure with the oil heater to begin with because when the temperature controller turns off the heater it could continue heating the space and the fluctuating temprature will have quite a high range. But that was an easy fix, I just turned down the thermostat on the heater so it...

Absolutely lol, always keeping an eye out for a bargain!

Thanks mate, I figured that seeing as we are now heading into winter here in New Zealand and I'm brewing out in the garage/shed, the temperature controller was a small price to pay. I did look into a heat pad but with them being only 25w and I'm not using an insulated enclosure it could...

For the past 3+ years I've wanted to try making my own beer, but have been putting it off and putting it off until a few weeks ago I secured a great deal and purchased a Mangrove Jack's starter kit. The kit arrived and I had to resist the urge to rip straight into it as I wasn't prepared. Over...