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I am limited for space in my fridge and want to take out a 1/2 full keg for another one, leaving the already tapped keg in the garage. It will get warm and fridge it again in a few weeks. Am I asking for trouble with shelf life since I have cracked the keg does it need to remain chilled...

I'm in Australia so hops are starting to mature at this time of year. From what I have read my 'Goldings' and soon my 'Chinook' are ready to pick. They are only first year plants, the cones are starting to brown and feel thin, BUT not smell just a grassy smell. Have taken these ones off...

From 'How to Brew' by John Palmer Sorry was going to cut and paste the recipe here but realised i would be breaking copyright laws so just the link. How to Brew - By John Palmer - Ale Styles Was hoping to find anyone that has brewed this before following Johns instructions on using an old...

Just got a 9L party keg and plan on bottling the rest of my 21L. If I bottle pouring my dextrose into the bottles why can't I do the same with my little keg, yes with 1/2 the sugar. All I seem to read talks about disolving the sugar with water first, like when bulk priming. Also at present...

I use an eBay fridge($39) eBay new STC100 dual controller ($16) wired using bits from RShack ($10) and LHBS heat pad.($50) I'm running in oC as in Australia. wow this has been fantastic! Unbelievably exact!! Heat pad is sitting one shelf down to minimize any hot spots. No more ice and water or...

The best advice I have is to use brewing software. You can play with the additions and see how it effects the numbers. Was a huge help for me to see how it all comes together. I use Promash there are lots of diff ones available. Mine even gives me guide lines to stay within a particular style...

Hi there. Hope some one can help me. Using Promash (Extract and specialty only at present) and my wort size wants to copy my batch size. Want to be able to boil a smaller wort and was hoping Promash would work that out for me.? Is that possible?. Or do i just have to make the wort the...

Hi Old mate. Agave you can get from health food shops or the supermarket under imported foods. I get mine which is a 100% blue agave from an importer. Hi gratus ' As mentioned in first post I used CL23 and Nutrient. It's happily kicked off as mentioned and now after 3 days has gone down...

The yeast maker talks about >68f when pitching so have lifted the temp to 70f and it's started happily bubbling away out of the air lock so looks like she has kicked off again. I should of thought of that, since it's been in primary for over 3 weeks the yeast would of slowed right down, so...

Had a brew of 5gl fresh apple juice in for 3 weeks on primary Vintners CL23 and nutrient (68-71f) When stopped @ 0.996 Racked into secondary on 2.2LBs brown suger. Should of added in primary I guess. A good surge of the old yeast came through but now 4 days later sitting at 64-66f the yeast...

Want to back sweeten with Agave Nector but using at this stage the PET bottles, guess thats not going to work with 190oC ! Only have access to priming for final carbanation no kegging. Anyone tried the above with PETs?