Gday beer4, I've been using a cheapy $100 44 litre electric urn for just over a year now, knocked out 19 before the element died. Compared to a $300 Crownie, that's about five bucks a brew, so I got another one :) Slowly accumulating more stuff like a mill, grain & hops bulk buys, yeast stepping & t...

Gday all, this past few months has seen me have a crack at homebrew again for the first time in just over 20 years. From the bad old days in Darwin in the heat, with 2+kg of sugar at 30 plus... not nice... to the cool pleasant hills of the Huon in Tassie, what a difference sensible temps make! Have ...