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  1. Mark Farrall

    Recipes not loading?

    Thanks for that. All working now.
  2. Mark Farrall

    Recipes not loading?

    I'm unable to load a recipe for editing. It just sits with the loading spinner and never loads. There's an error in the bf.min.js file in the getIngredientByID function - b.indexOf is not a function. I'm getting this on Brave, Chrome and Firefox. I've tried this on private sessions as well.
  3. Mark Farrall

    Do you pull a high krausen hop addition when doing a DDH?

    I'll do one, that's around 20-30% of the dry hop amount at high krausen and add the rest just before terminal. I don't remove the first addition. I generally split when it's a big dry hop, not due to some hop/yeast interaction during active fermentation. While I'm convinced that those changes...
  4. Mark Farrall

    Brewzilla? Anyone have one and can give some advice?

    I've got a 3.1.1. Very happy with it, but I'd get a 4 if I was looking now. There's a few improvements, but just the advantage of having the control panel at the top and easier to work with is enough of a difference. I'm sick of lying on the concrete to change the temperature. I find everything...
  5. Mark Farrall

    Kombucha / Beer in Same Fermenter

    Can you get a process that kills 100% of the microbes from the previous batch? It's not that they're harder to kill than standard sacchromyces (many are much easier to kill), it's just that if you miss a few, they're far more likely to change the taste of your beer than a few stray sacchromyces...
  6. Mark Farrall

    New Brewzilla Gen 4

    Seems a pretty lenient patent examiner letting that through. Hardly original thinking to have feet half way up. Moar patent protection!!!
  7. Mark Farrall

    Sanitiser contribution to oxidation

    This is probably what I'll be doing for all beers now. The wife seems to react badly to sulfates/sulfites so I'm not keen to go the metabisulfite route. But maybe I don't change my purging practice, but use keg conditioning. I could even use an abbreviated conditioning process for hazies so...
  8. Mark Farrall

    Decline in Hombrewing.

    Definitely had a few during the day. Hard work walking around being a tourist.
  9. Mark Farrall

    Decline in Hombrewing.

    That's the reason I started 6-7 years ago, Belgian Wits had virtually disappeared and Imperial Stouts were scarce as hen's teeth. Still haven't made a Wit I'm happy with and there's so many stouts in the shop I don't really need to brew them (as long as I don't mind the insane pastry side of...
  10. Mark Farrall

    Kegs are calling me

    Home level can/bottle filling automation... Not as pricey as I was fearing, but still not sure it's worth it. With my smaller batches I don't have that much angst with bottling. https://www.kegland.com.au/products/cannular-can-and-bottle-filler-rapt
  11. Mark Farrall

    Sanitiser contribution to oxidation

    Listening to this podcast - https://beersmith.com/content/controlling-oxygen-in-beer-with-colin-kaminski-beersmith-podcast-293/. It surprised me to hear that in their canning experiments they found that sanitiser was one of the bigger contributors to dissolved oxygen in the cans. Not the active...
  12. Mark Farrall

    Talk to me about Golden Naked Oats

    I've used them a bit and my wife uses them a bit more. Though I doubt we'd be able to separate their contribution from the other malts that are supposed to give more body and mouth feel. I've used them in stouts and hazy IPAs, my wife in hazy IPAs. I'm keen to hear how they go in more malty...
  13. Mark Farrall

    Bottle conditioning of lower ABV brews?

    It was changing constantly, it just happened that between days 26-30 whatever you were noticing dropped below your taste threshold.
  14. Mark Farrall

    Australian sparkling

    I think that Melbourne ale appears every year or two from White Labs. Bluestone Yeast in Melbourne seem to be selling it as well, though looks like it's only in pro scale packages.
  15. Mark Farrall

    Australian sparkling

    I think of it as an English pale ale strongly influenced by European lager brewed by breweries with little temperature control. Older versions used a lot of sugar as malted grain was harder to get when the style started out. So blond, low hops, dry as a bone, but some to a lot of yeast...
  16. Mark Farrall

    Bitter Brews

    I think we get higher standards and can become less forgiving too easily.
  17. Mark Farrall

    WC IPA / Chinook

    I would have completely agreed about the crystal 6-10 years ago. Now I'm getting a nostalgic hankering for WC with a noticeable, but restrained amount of crystal.
  18. Mark Farrall

    Bitter Brews

    They're measurable, but the test they use is anything that appears in a particular spectrum on the machine they're using (GCM I think). It's close to isomerised alpha acids, but it also includes other things, some of which aren't bitter. And the test misses other compounds, some of which are...
  19. Mark Farrall

    You know you did it wrong when...

    Have hardly brewed at all in the last year, so it's all feeling a bit new today. Measure the pre-boil gravity and volume and I'm miles away from where I should be. Turns out the water volume lines in the kettle are in 1 litre increments. Not 2 litre increments as I stupidly guessed when I was...
  20. Mark Farrall

    Brewing Vlog's you've been watching.

    I had a bit of trouble at the start, but I think my problem was overtightening. Haven't had any leaking problems for a year or so now. All my larger stainless kegs have been taken for aging mixed ferment beers, so I have 2-3 oxebar in the kegerator most of the time. And yes, that tapping head...

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