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Gday lads, If I was making a Pale Ale & wished to put honey in the fermenter, would I add honey as well as the normal malt/sugar mix or should I reduce the normal malt/sugar mix because of the sugar in the honey? We have a lovely white ale here in Oz called White Rabbit White Ale & honey is...

Re golfer with $500 club who keeps shanking it - yeh a hacker is always going to be hacker. But give a good brewer better equipment & surely he/she will do better. I'm not not sure what equipment you blokes are using (I'm still in the plastic fermenter stage & happy enough thankyou) but surely...

I've tasted some crap home brews also but now know that's probably coz low cost ingredients were used &/or too much water used to maximize return. Coupled with poor skills all leads to crap beer. I am VERY much an amateur but have made a very nice high % stout using better quality ingredients...

I used to get wicked reaction to beer but narrowed it down to mass produced commercial lagers. Have been told that finnings used to make lagers clear (settle the sediment) can cause allergies &/asthma. It contains sulphites. Another thing - I saw allergy doc who did the skin scratch test to...

Great piece of info re CO2 production from TopherM. It's info like that I find really helps. I have an ale & a stout brewing side by side. The stout was bubbling away like crazy for first week & after 2.5 weeks is still doing a few bubbles. The ale hasn't bubbled at all yet I can see that a...

You're not on your own mate. I freaked out coz my 1st brew wasn't bubbling, wasn't making noises like the beer the lads at work were brewing (they stout - me ale) etc etc. In the end I let it go & allowed it to finish it's ferment. FG was within range & I bottled it. Will know soon if ok tho...