What do you Drink...

[cochise]

Here's a Kilkenny clone I made awhile back next to the original (mine is on the left).


Now the conversation has got interesting, the brewers are here! I do a beautiful Guinness clone that I have named Red Beard Stout. What is your brewing setup?

 

[cochise]

I've got a Northern English Brown Ale ready to transfer to a keg in the next day or so. Should come in at about 4.2% ABV so you can afford to have a few without getting wasted.

What is your brewing and kegging setup?

 

[Trevros]

Here's a Kilkenny clone I made awhile back next to the original (mine is on the left).


Now the conversation has got interesting, the brewers are here! I do a beautiful Guinness clone that I have named Red Beard Stout. What is your brewing setup?

At the moment I'm only doing 10 litre full-grain batches to test the waters (I've been brewing extracts and partials for years). I'm undecided on whether to invest in a robobrew, guten or just get a 40 litre Crown Urn. I'm not too keen on the robobrew considering the issues some people have had with the build quality. If I had the cash I'd certainly go the Grainfather.


 

[gallagher]

Here's a Kilkenny clone I made awhile back next to the original (mine is on the left).


How did it come out? I get some kegs from the local ubrewit but they don't do Kilkenny, not sure why.

@Cultured_Bogan Irish heritage and an Irish wife. You were on the right track👍

 

[diedpretty]

any pale ales, ipa, xpa or rich dark beers and stout

 

[cochise]

Here's a Kilkenny clone I made awhile back next to the original (mine is on the left).


Now the conversation has got interesting, the brewers are here! I do a beautiful Guinness clone that I have named Red Beard Stout. What is your brewing setup?

At the moment I'm only doing 10 litre full-grain batches to test the waters (I've been brewing extracts and partials for years). I'm undecided on whether to invest in a robobrew, guten or just get a 40 litre Crown Urn. I'm not too keen on the robobrew considering the issues some people have had with the build quality. If I had the cash I'd certainly go the Grainfather.


Yeah, I do partials for most of my brews, used to keg my beers but have been bottling the last few years. I want to get back into kegging again!

 

[tigger]

I've got a Northern English Brown Ale ready to transfer to a keg in the next day or so. Should come in at about 4.2% ABV so you can afford to have a few without getting wasted.

What is your brewing and kegging setup?

I live in Melbourne these days, just up the road from the Keg King factory so I get all my gear, grain etc from them.
I'm using a brew in a bag method. The mash goes into a keg king fermentasaurus to ferment. That fermenter can be hooked up to CO2 bottle and put under pressure. Towards the end of fermentation I cold crash the brew so that the yeast drops out and transfer it under pressure to 20l and 10l kegs (if I'm doing a 30l batch).
Because it's transferred under pressure, oxygen never touches the brew. Touch wood, I've never had a bad batch since I moved to this method.
Also, I don't have to stuff around washing and sterilsing bottles. I had so many really ordinary or bad brews when I was using that method.
We got 48 hours notice of the latest Covid 19 restrictions so I had time to get in and get the grain required for 2 Irish red ales, a stout, a pale ale and the northern english brown.
30L sounds like a lot, but I share with my oldest son (the brains behind the enterprise) and my youngest son moved home from the country at the start of the restrictions - so it doesn't go far.
All I need now is some footie to watch and I'll be right.

 

[cochise]

I've got a Northern English Brown Ale ready to transfer to a keg in the next day or so. Should come in at about 4.2% ABV so you can afford to have a few without getting wasted.

What is your brewing and kegging setup?

I live in Melbourne these days, just up the road from the Keg King factory so I get all my gear, grain etc from them.
I'm using a brew in a bag method. The mash goes into a keg king fermentasaurus to ferment. That fermenter can be hooked up to CO2 bottle and put under pressure. Towards the end of fermentation I cold crash the brew so that the yeast drops out and transfer it under pressure to 20l and 10l kegs (if I'm doing a 30l batch).
Because it's transferred under pressure, oxygen never touches the brew. Touch wood, I've never had a bad batch since I moved to this method.
Also, I don't have to stuff around washing and sterilsing bottles. I had so many really ordinary or bad brews when I was using that method.
We got 48 hours notice of the latest Covid 19 restrictions so I had time to get in and get the grain required for 2 Irish red ales, a stout, a pale ale and the northern english brown.
30L sounds like a lot, but I share with my oldest son (the brains behind the enterprise) and my youngest son moved home from the country at the start of the restrictions - so it doesn't go far.
All I need now is some footie to watch and I'll be right.

Similar system to what I used to use, I had a nice little homemade kegerator with taps out the top. I stopped brewing for about 5 years so gave it away to a mate. I am thinking of getting one of the kegging systems from ikegger, maybe get a kit with a 19l keg with a smaller 5l keg that can be daisy chained and kept in the fridge or taken when you go out. You can run them off sodastream cannisters so makes them quite portable though more expensive for CO2.

What I'd really like to do is get a kegging system running Nitro for kegging stouts!

 

[tigger]

@Cochise
I run my 10L keg off a soda stream bottle.
We are also considering Nitro for future stouts. Looked at a hand pump set up which purportedly results in a similar outcome but it's way too expensive for a hobby brewer ($600+)

 

[cochise]

@Cochise
I run my 10L keg off a soda stream bottle.
We are also considering Nitro for future stouts. Looked at a hand pump set up which purportedly results in a similar outcome but it's way too expensive for a hobby brewer ($600+)

How do you find using the soda stream cannister?

 

[tigger]

@Cochise
No problem.
I've had 3 brews in the 10L keg and there still seems to be plenty of gas left in it.
When I need to replace it I can just do a swap -and-go at Woolies.
You can put a special soda stream regulator on it, but I found that a normal regulator fitted it as well and was only a couple of dollars more expensive.
I went with the normal regulator so I can transfer to a Co2 bottle whenever I want to.
We don't use the soda stream for transferring between fermenter and kegs. I think you would run out quite quickly if you tried to do that.
Have you had a look at the Brewers Friend web site? It's got a really good brew program you can download for free.

 

[cochise]

@Cochise
No problem.
I've had 3 brews in the 10L keg and there still seems to be plenty of gas left in it.
When I need to replace it I can just do a swap -and-go at Woolies.
You can put a special soda stream regulator on it, but I found that a normal regulator fitted it as well and was only a couple of dollars more expensive.
I went with the normal regulator so I can transfer to a Co2 bottle whenever I want to.
We don't use the soda stream for transferring between fermenter and kegs. I think you would run out quite quickly if you tried to do that.
Have you had a look at the Brewers Friend web site? It's got a really good brew program you can download for free.

I will have a look at that site mate, just starting brewing again at Christmas, I built my own kegging system last time but will probably just purchase one of the ikegger packages.

 

[Fade.To.Black]

Cheapest beer I can find at Dan Murphy's and my mates home-distilled bourbon/rum/vodka.
The effect is more vital to me than the taste😄. His spirit's do come out pretty good though........

 

[tigger]

@Cochise
Just to clarify, I'm using a sodastream CO2 gas bottle with a regulator, not the little sodastream gas bulbs.

 

[cochise]

@Cochise
Just to clarify, I'm using a sodastream CO2 gas bottle with a regulator, not the little sodastream gas bulbs.

Yeah no way I'm going the bulbs lol. I use them for pumping up my tyres on my mountain bike when out riding!

 

[Trevros]

Here's a Kilkenny clone I made awhile back next to the original (mine is on the left).


Now the conversation has got interesting, the brewers are here! I do a beautiful Guinness clone that I have named Red Beard Stout. What is your brewing setup?

At the moment I'm only doing 10 litre full-grain batches to test the waters (I've been brewing extracts and partials for years). I'm undecided on whether to invest in a robobrew, guten or just get a 40 litre Crown Urn. I'm not too keen on the robobrew considering the issues some people have had with the build quality. If I had the cash I'd certainly go the Grainfather.


Yeah, I do partials for most of my brews, used to keg my beers but have been bottling the last few years. I want to get back into kegging again!

I've been brewing on and off for 28 years (558 brews) and have yet to keg. I will eventually but my aim this year is to sort out all-grain and get a brewing fridge to regulate fermentation temps properly.

A little question for you brewers out there, what is your favourite base malt, hop and yeast strain?

 

[hobbo1]

Cheapest beer I can find at Dan Murphy's and my mates home-distilled bourbon/rum/vodka.
The effect is more vital to me than the taste😄. His spirit's do come out pretty good though........

Mount Bingar Riesling was a big hit as a teen $5.95 for 4 litres ..messy times 😂

 

[Fade.To.Black]

Cheapest beer I can find at Dan Murphy's and my mates home-distilled bourbon/rum/vodka.
The effect is more vital to me than the taste?. His spirit's do come out pretty good though........

Mount Bingar Riesling was a big hit as a teen $5.95 for 4 litres ..messy times ?

Sounds like quality mate?. Could never stomach that goon bag stuff, had a few off-tap nights on that Malibu gut-rot, my mate's Dad had a sniff of it one night and started calling me Ronnie Reef Oil! It reeked like that coconut suntanning stuff? Hideous hangovers off that.

 

[hobbo1]

Cheapest beer I can find at Dan Murphy's and my mates home-distilled bourbon/rum/vodka.
The effect is more vital to me than the taste?. His spirit's do come out pretty good though........

Mount Bingar Riesling was a big hit as a teen $5.95 for 4 litres ..messy times ?

Sounds like quality mate?. Could never stomach that goon bag stuff, had a few off-tap nights on that Malibu gut-rot, my mate's Dad had a sniff of it one night and started calling me Ronnie Reef Oil! It reeked like that coconut suntanning stuff? Hideous hangovers off that.

Worst pissed I got was an all nighter on southern comfort ..
Mates couldn’t get me in the house so they dug me shallow grave and covered me with mulch to keep me warm ?
Deadset shat myself when I woke up ?

Hand many clangers on OP rum / McWiliams sweet dry sherry / Sambuca and El Toro Tequila ?

 

[Trevros]

Cheapest beer I can find at Dan Murphy's and my mates home-distilled bourbon/rum/vodka.
The effect is more vital to me than the taste?. His spirit's do come out pretty good though........

Mount Bingar Riesling was a big hit as a teen $5.95 for 4 litres ..messy times ?

I got maggoted on wine once when I was 16 and haven't touched a drop of wine since. Thankfully beer doesn't make the room spin around and around and around then.......... :nauseated_face: