Hello from oz

[Twinkeelfool]

Hey guys I'm a brewer from Australia. Been brewing AG almost 10 years ( batch sparge with cooler, keggle and keggle HLT ). Been doing some google searches on Belgian beers, specifically beire de garde and this place came up a few times. Joined up about 6 months ago but only really now looking here regularly.

Love English ales but at the moment on a Belgian kick, with a dubbel in bottles, and a ple mild fermented with 3725 beire de garde yeast, and a 9% beire de garde blonde. Only 2 weeks in the bottle but a sneaky preview last night was sensational. Hopefully I'll be able to leave it for a few months to "garde" haha

 

[jdauria]

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!

Welcome to the forums! Happy Brewing!

 

[NickTheGreat]

Welcome to the forum! Whereabouts in Oz are ya from?

 

[Twinkeelfool]

Sorry guys I missed this. I'm from Wollongong, about 90 minutes south if Sydney.

 

[NTXBrauer]

Hey and Welcome!

 

[NickTheGreat]

Glad to hear from ya! Hope you were able to dodge the bushfires. That stuff is nasty

 

[Cyclman]

Welcome to the group, from CO. I have a Westy dubbel in bottles, hope to try my first in a few more weeks.

 

[Twinkeelfool]

Glad to hear from ya! Hope you were able to dodge the bushfires. That stuff is nasty

Was lucky to avoid them, though we were smoked out a few days. I flew up to cairns ( far North Queensland ) on one of the days, and thought we might not get there due to road closures while heading to the airport. When we flew home we could see some of the damage from the air.

One of the main fires was actually started by the army. They let off some explosives which started one of the bigger fires. Oops!

 

[Twinkeelfool]

Welcome to the group, from CO. I have a Westy dubbel in bottles, hope to try my first in a few more weeks.

Thanks mate. I just had one of my dubbels, which is around 6 months old now. They get so much smoother with some age.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Was lucky to avoid them, though we were smoked out a few days. I flew up to cairns ( far North Queensland ) on one of the days, and thought we might not get there due to road closures while heading to the airport. When we flew home we could see some of the damage from the air.

One of the main fires was actually started by the army. They let off some explosives which started one of the bigger fires. Oops!

Glad to hear it. We were in Sydney, on a tour of the Blue Mountains the day before the fires started. In Sydney the next day, it was dark and smokey. There was ash raining down a little bit.