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Wooo hoooo!!! I can't believe that NZ have managed a draw against Italy! That's amazing! It sounds pretty silly to be celebrating 2 draws, but this is our best word cup result ever!

Epic Armageddon IPA

Just thought some of you might be interested in this. My favourite NZ craft brewer, Luke Nicholas of Epic Brewing (Mmmmmm Epic Armageddon IPA), is going to do a collaborative Festival Beer with Dogfish Head...

I have about 300 750ml (25oz) bottles in my garage. That said, I only have about 193 of them full at the moment. So I have 145l (38gal). It all varies in age from more than a year to less than two weeks in the bottle. I put half of each batch in glass, half in plastic, drink the plastic ones...

Yeah, that is pretty extreme though. I've had it younger than that, sometimes after a couple of weeks it's carbonated and OK, but I think it's better to age for longer. I have a good pipeline though, I have over 40 gallons of beer and cider just ageing away. The ones I left for 12 months were...

I just leave mine in primary 1-2 months, then age in the bottle 6-12.... works OK for me.

Woo hoo! NZ's got our first points on the board, EVER! Ok, so it was a draw, but hey, it's the best we've ever done. With national population only a few 100k more than LA city, and a sporting culture dominated by a game for real men, that's a pretty good showing I reckon! Woo hoo!

Andy, the labelizer is awesome! Being an absolute spaz when it comes to design I've really been struggling with my labels, and haven't had any joy trying to find something like this. As for bottles, glass is fine (better even), as long as you make sure your fermentation is finished (use your...

Welcome Andy, you'll find the site really useful, I have! Whereabouts in Auckland are you?

I feel for you dude. I've rented all sorts of place. We had one where the landlord just wanted tenants to be able to sell the apartment tenanted (but didn't tell us that), so after 3 months, it went on the market, sold, and the new owners wanted to take posession vacant! That pissed me off...

Hi there, and welcome. Colour certainly does matter. Brown all the way, or else keep them out of the light. I wouldn't think even blue would be any good (as it's UV light that is the problem, and blue wouldn't be a good filter for that), but I haven't heard either way.

I've had Kava a few times, last time was in Fiji, on holiday. I got some and we had a Tanoa in the apartment we stayed in, so I made up a batch and drank most of it myself, the best nights sleep I've ever had! You don't get a massive buzz off it or anything, you're still very clear headed, just...

I know, it really is horrible, but I can't help it.... You're right on about cooking meat in a microwave too. Another one is people (invariably men), when discussing beer saying "I'm actually a *insert mass produced insipid beer here* man myself", I swear there are guys here in NZ that...

Bad teeth.

Cheap Wine - Cold Chisel

Hi Splangy, yes, the Twisted Hop is great, no trip to Chch is complete without it! Cheers Pommy, I'll check out Speakers Corner & Patriot sometime. Have you been to Hallertau yet? I was there a while ago, it's pretty good. I only had their Stuntman, which is pretty extreme. I have had...

Loser - Beck

Hi George, you can bottle carb it, but like beer, only when it's finished fermenting, so it won't be sweet anymore. I've tried sweetening with artificial sweetener and also lactose, but with varying results. More testing is upcoming. I don't cold-crash my cider, but I do leave it in primary a...

To the OP and the others that are trying, just hang in there, it gets easier. I find that I don't even think about it anymore, it seems like I was a whole different person then! DO NOT do the "I'll only have one" thing. I did this after about 2 years of not smoking and was straight back into...

Hi there, I don't have a lot to add to this, just stumbled upon it looking for a feijoa wine recipe (the trees are going mental here at the moment, and people had absolutely tons to give away). Anyway, they are actually quit different to golden kiwifruit. Here's a link to Wikipedia with some...