I've just taken delivery of a huge box of goodies for brewing.
Enough for 7 brews! For about $245 including postage of $21 from Sydney! About $35 per brew. There's 500 ml of Iodophor in that cost too.

They consist of a tin of extract, a kilo of dried malt of various descriptions and what's called an "infusion pack". About 220 g of grain and some hops. It's apparently as easy as making a cup of tea.

I've got a couple of English Bitter, a couple of Stout, a Canadian Light, a Pilsner and a Wheat.

Going to start off with the Canadian Light, 500g light malt extract, a pilsner and pale lager infusion pack and use a Saflager S-23 yeast.

This will actually be my first foray into a light coloured beer after my initial Coopers Lager that came with the fermenter. All my others have been dark ales and stouts. Oh I did a wheat beer a while back too.

If anyone wants a good mail order home brew site, I'd highly recommend www.bmbrews.com.au/index.php/home. Pat Casey is extremely helpful, knowledgeable and a very decent bloke!

Postage was $21.20 for about 21 kilograms. Pat posted the stuff to me on Tuesday and it arrived yesterday. Pretty good going, I think. A brewshop in south australia that I'd used reckons it costs $30 to send 3 brews and it took almost 2 weeks to get here.

I know who I'll be going back to!

Barb, I know that shop in Faulconbridge. My sister lives close by near the Norman Lindsay house. I must go in and have a look when I'm down there again. I love brewing shops. They always have excellent things.

Good luck with your brewing. I'd love to brew beer. It's off in the future for me. I adore wheat beer. Let me know how it goes, particularly the wheat one. Thoese prices are very good and the postage is the icing on the cake.

Really??? We used to live in Magic Pudding Place before chucking in suburbia to move to Eurobin.

Brewing beer is really a piece of cake.

I love how they named all those streets for Lindsay's books and characters. My sister lives in Lindsay Road in a huge gingerbread house.