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[Alex]

i'll just put this

here.


thanks.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

Not real beer.

Move along.

My system cost less, has no limitations, and produces more beer without force carb,

Cheers,
Nik

[Brett]

Yeah but this does beer in 7 days.
If you purely wanted to make beer simply so you had something to drink at home, this would be pretty fricken handy. Biggest limitation I see is that for 7 days, you have no beer.
It ferments, clarifies, carbonates, chills, stores and serves in the one unit. You can mess about with hops additions and stuff too.

On other less controversial matters, I had BrewBoys Maiden Ale tonight. Was a nice golden ale. Probably wont buy again only because its not my preferred style. Couldnt fault the brew though.

[Brett]

also last night was;

Innis and Gunn Rum cask - nowhere near as nice as their Oak aged Ale. The American Oak was way too dominant for my liking.

Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale - Feckin awesome.

Also

We've tuned our Pale Ale recipe and have got it drinking really well right now. Just Racked off a batch yesterday which should be on tap this weekend.
Ditto with our Brown Ale recipe. The batch we brewed last week has just finished ferment and is now chilling. Gone is the astringent finish, is more brown than red in appearance, has an epic creamy head. Very mellow and very drinkable.

Tomahawk Imperial IPA is on too. 7.8% Big dry hop addition.

Finally for you Perth Beer nerds, Mark (The Old Brewery's Head brewer) is holding a "meet the brewer" arvo this Sunday(14/8) 2-5pm. I'll be there which quite frankly should be enough incentive for you to come down. Failing that, there will be beer.

Cheers,
Brett.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

Bummer noone saw this, Brett. Bummer I couldn't make it, sounded like a ******* awesome spread they put on for you. Old Brewery food is killer good.

Thought I'd leave this here;



Dark enough for you?



Cheers,
Nik

[Richo]

Yeah, was bummed. Was cleaning the house (sorta) of all things :/

No, needs more caraffa and chock

[Brett]

Is there roasted malt in there Nik?

[Brett]

Richo you'd have loved it mate. Riverside is the best Ive tasted it to date. Going to hopefully bring a keg of the Brown ale we are about to filter, down for MDSC. Its insanely nice. Aroma smells like a Kingston biscuit! really full and rounded malt flavour, perfect hops bitterness balance, but finishes very cleanly.

[Richo]

mmmm biscuity

[Brett]

Just having Burleigh heads 28 pale ale. Full of faults. Chill haze I can live with. But it's got that horrid metallic flavour on the aroma and in the finish. Anyone know what causes that flavour? Nik? I remember it popping up briefly on the course but I can't remember.

[Richo]

possible brett infection ?

http://en.wikipedia....nsory_compounds

or come into contact with some metal compounds (ie a rusty surface) from what I'm reading. Some english yeast can give it too (but subtle)

[Brett]

haha Ill definitely have to remember that. "oh no this beers been Brett'd!" I can hear Mark saying that now.

It was bad to the point of not being able to finish the glass. It tasted like sucking on a two cent piece.

[Brett]

[Brett]

I know it's sad, but a lot of us do it. The empty beer bottle parade/display. Just counted mine. I'm up to 55. I know it's nothing compared to some. But I was actually a little surprised to see as many as that.
Nik do you have a Peroni Gran Riserva or Delierium Tremens? I can bring them down for your beer cool wall if you don't.

[skillionaire]

Hi,

Delirium, yes. PGR, no.

It's no sadder than people that don't throw out old Unique Cars magazines or similar for fear that one day they might need to call someone that sold a car in there four years ago.

Also, my collection is more of a collaborative museum installation, with works being on loan from the Richasonian and the Brettorium.

Cheers,
Nik

[Brett]

Will removing the airlock on my fermenter, so I can take a gravity reading, expose my beer baby to infection? Im pretty keen to plot a Fermentation graph. Its been at a constant 22*c so far which im pretty happy with. After 18hours Ive got good attenuation building. Im getting decent bubbles every 3 seconds or so.

[skillionaire]

Why not use the tap?

[Brett]

You noodle! I will use the tap to draw off a sample, but if you don't take the airlock out, when you take the sample it'll suck the stresses water through the airlock into the fermenter. Aparently.

[skillionaire]

How big of a god damn sample are you taking?

[Brett]

Just cracked a Mac's Brewery Hop Rocker Pilsner. I'll write out what it says on the bottle;

"if you like your pilsner to show a bit of hops, you've come to the right place. While a modicum of classic malt helps to put body into hop rocker, that's not why it's so called. Smell those citrus aromas. Savior those bitter notes. All the result of Nelson sauvin and NZ cascade hops, adding a touch of botanical exoticism to your leisure activities."

Now maybe it's because I've just had a Punk IPA, but I smell no NS or Cascade hops. It smells, tastes and drinks pretty much like a normal Pilsner. It's not a bad pilsner, just a little disappointing considering the description on the bottle. Has that typical Pilsner sulfury aroma. Would I buy again? Probably not. $19 for a sixer, and Pilsner isn't my favourite style.