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I'll admit to eating a bit of kangaroo down here. Cheap, lean, full of protein, and god dam delicious if cooked properly. The smallest hint of overcooked and it'll turn to rubber though..

Do you have any grains, hops or yeast on hand or are you purchasing everything just for the brew? A brown or robust porter would probably go down a treat as mentioned above, or could pump out a nice cask ale? Irish red maybe? But yea, depends on if you're trying to use up ingredients you...

Are you giving the wort a good whirlpool after the boil with some finings (whirfloc/brewbrite/etc)? Most of the hops should drop out with a good whirlpool and leave you with clear wort. Otherwise a hop bag will contain all the hop matter, but just make sure to get one large enough for the hops...

Bulk buy and split with other brewer's :smile:. You'll easily get the $/100g well below that. Even so, there's so many other delicious, fruity hops out there it's hard to justify prices some suppliers prices. I guess if people are willing to pay it then so be it. Price not being a factor, you...

Admiral will give minimal flavour and a clean bitterness so won't affect too much. Citra is delicious - you can never have too much citra if you ask me. Add plenty late and dry hop and it'll most probably turn out great.

Using hot water for sparging will help give better run off and obtain a better efficiency IMO. Cold water will work, but hot water will help with extracting as many sugars as possible. As mentioned above, you don't want to sparge with boiling water as you'll start to extract tannins etc, but...

Dextrose and cane sugar with both ferment out completely so either will be fine. I like to add my sugar additions after the yeast have had a good go at the main wort (say 50-80% through fermentation) as otherwise they could get lazy after fermenting the simple sugars (dextrose/cane). It can be...

They are a little bit more expensive but I highly recommend chugger pumps. I've got one, had it for years and hasn't skipped a beat. I use it on a 130L system running boiling wort and water through it without any issues. I used to use a couple of cheaper pumps and have eventually failed on me...

As above, WB06 is low floccing so won't come up crystal clear without some filtering. Wheat beers are supposed to be cloudy anyways so not an issue. Is there any reason you added priming sugar then left it for the day instead of bottling straight away? There's a good chance you've kicked off...

Looks pretty good to me - you can never have too much citra IMO. What yeast are you planning to ferment with?

I believe you need a license to grow tobacco in Australia, even for personal use, and the license is pretty darn hard to obtain from memory. Granted, I haven't look into it at all but am sure I've heard it before. Note - I just had a look and the above seems pretty accurate. Need a license to...

Itc-308 ftw!

We've had the 'unbranded' cigarette packs in Australia for over a year now with just a nice ol' picture of someone struggling to survive on the front and back. Over the next 4 years they're increasing the tax each year on tobacco to see packs eventually reach $40-50AU (almost double what they...

You can always get a dial thermometer (or PT100 with thermowell) installed on the mash tun to measure the temperature of the mash. That way you always have an easy way to see what's happening in the mash. You're not going to be controlling the PID using that so anything that will give you an...

So is that just holding them at ambient? No cooling or thermal protection in there? Awesome build nonetheless mate.

No problems not having a bittering addition, you'll get plenty of bitterness being heavy-handed at the end of the boil. Not knowing AA% of the hops, the schedule looks alright from here.

Some kettle finings (brewbrite/whirfloc/etc) and a good whirlpool should leave most break material behind in a cone at the bottom of the kettle. Definitely best to try and leave as much break material behind as possible.

Good choice with the motueka. Much better as a single hop than topaz IMO.

Temp probes should really be placed after the heat source (outlet of HERMS), as it will be the highest temperature in the system. The mash will lag behind a bit but you'd rather bring the mash up to temperature that way than having the HERMS heat the wort to >80'C to try and control the mash...