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Just bought a scoby from an experienced kombucha maker and currently steeping some green tea before adding the scoby and some of the starter it came in once it has gone cold. I have always enjoyed a nice cold bottle of kombucha from the store so time to make my own

So when I am not working or brewing booze for me there is nothing better than a damn good jam session with my friends I am the one with the hat hiding in the dark , if you do not like heavy music I recommend you don't click the link. Feel free to post pics or videos of your other pastimes

I have been reading up on threads regarding washing and storing yeast for re-use my question is can I save yeast that has settled in the bottles as I have a couple of bottles of beer from my last batch where some of the sediment from the fermenter got into the beer and has left a pretty thick...

Ok so I am slowly gathering stuff for my next lot of beer and as per title I am going to be making a pale ale which involves a kit as I am not quite ready to start playing with hops and straight malt yet. Last brew I did was a coopers real ale kit that I used table sugar instead of dextrose...

Ok having my fermenters sitting in the dining room while fermenting I feel wasn't such a good idea due to exposure to direct sunlight during the day and now that we are coming into winter we will be starting to use the wood stove and that thing is dang nasty with the heat it spits out its an old...

Ok this is from the third batch of beer I have ever brewed and is my first successful one, I just had to have a taste test after 1 week of carbing up in my old fridge that I have out in the garage where it is nice and cool even with it turned off. I carbed half of the batch with soft brown sugar...

Last night I checked my beer as there had not been any activity with the airlock and the krausen layer had gone when I took a look through where the airlock sits, I took a sample and checked it with the hydrometer and it came in at 1.004 I checked it again today and it was still the same the...

Hi there I have just bought a mangrove jack's single output temp controller so I can just control the heating belt on my fermenter, with the temp sensing probe can I just put that into the wort as I am not using a refrigerator to do heating and cooling I just want to maintain the correct temp of...

Ok I tried to make beer a number of years ago and after two failed attempts I gave up and got rid of my equipment and now I have purchased more stuff and this time having a try at making wine seeing I have an abundace of feijoas (pineapple guavas) on the ground, so I currently have 4kg of pulp...

Ok after I lost my confidence with brewing a few years back I sold my original brewing gear. I will be buying another coopers brewing equipment kit and it comes with a can of wort concentrate. Now my question is the instructions for these things normally say just add water sugar and pitch yeast...

I am still learning how to brew I tired to make a couple of batches from kits two years ago which failed miserably one tasted like vinegar the other well it tasted absolutely foul as well the result I tipped the lot down the drain and got rid of my brewing gear. I have decided I would like to...