What are you brewing?

[nzbrewer]

Since this is the most popular thread on the RealBeer.co.nz forum I thought I would start it here just to see what happens

[JoKing]

Post your gear and recipe and we'll have a look.

[Stu McKinlay]

Go with something you know well. A relatively simple recipe. Enjoy getting to know your new gear.
Awesome.. i still love mine.

[Mark]

i've got a stack load of recipes lined up, but will probably start with something like a bitter or pale ale.

any quirks of the gear you've found?

[JoKing]

I dont have the bbb setup - so yeah, I've got quirks... many quirks!

I guess the best way is to find out for yourself aye?

[Stu McKinlay]

As I say, they're awesome.
Make sure you have a tight fit on the line leaving the mash tun - keep the air out and your run off will be a delight.
Don't try to push it too far early on, like anything they have their limits and a stuck mash is not fun. I've got 12kg in mine without any problems. If you're going a pale ale or a bitter you'll have no worries there.

[James P]

If you don't mind me asking, what was the price of the B3-200 landed in nZ?

[Stu McKinlay]

Can't remember just that part.... $ was better when I got mine, two years ago, but I did get stung by 7% excise and 12.5% GST.... I got the B3-200 along with 5 kegs (with a great recondition job), a regulator, a SS kettle and an unusable gas bottle, plus a few other bits and pieces, for about $1,800 landed I think.

[Stu McKinlay]

Oh, yeh, i forgot about the immersion chiller... and the "sparge arm of envy".

Actually, duty may not have been charged on the plastics for me - just the stainless and the gas gadgets.

[Mark]

sparge arm of envy? what's that?!

[Mark]

i got stung by low kiwi dollar, but didn't get charged duty (got charged gst tho). got the brew system and a wort chiller and a few other bits and pieces for about a grand.

[Mike Neilson]

Could just me but an IPA to me is English (Ameriacn never sent beer to India Did they?). So I call them some times an Imperial APA as I use American ingredients not english an Imperial IPA would use English hops malt etc. But this is just my way thinking (I do think backwards sometimes) and of making sure I know what im brewing drinking. So forgive me if I write in my own slang.

[denimglen]

Oh yup, just wanted to clarify there wasn't a style I was missing out on, thought it might have been your average gravity APA with (A)IPA hopping rates or something.

I see where you're coming from but to me it's an American-style IPA. Do I need to send my beer to India to claim IPA-status? ;-P