Amanda has been doing the homebrew talkback show on the ABC 936FM. 

Tune in at the new time 10am on Saturdays (right after Peter Cundall) with Chris Wisbey and you might catch her...

Or call 1300 222 936 on the day, she'd love to chat with you and Chris and lots of other listeners!!!

Click here for a link to ABC and see what she has already contributed.

Dates for coming months.....

Nothing until the New Year.  Stay tuned...

8 Aug 2009

13 June 2009  What a show.  Started with a very yummy sweet stout by Steve,  Followed by an experimental champagne maker.  David raised the topical question of sterilising bottles - use bleach.  We talked about John's super cider, Brett with his Tawny Port and Scotch and David's Nashi wine - half bottled dry and half bottled sweeter using potassium sorbate as a stabiliser.

28 March 2009  Worked with Cameron this morning.  A busy show with lots of callers from as far away as Sheffield and Penguin.  We covered ginger beer, chilli beer, cider, stout, wheat beer with coriander seeds and oranges and the old favourite Rhubarb Champagne. 

14 February 2009  A funny show, where I learned about planting blueberry plants.  We had an old fashioned blackberry wine made in a bowl, followed by a plum puree...  The old favourite rhubarb champagne.  Head retention on an Irish ale - time in the bottle, quality ingredients and clean equipment as the answer.  And lots more.

13 December 2008  Busy show, all the favourites - rhubarb champagne and ginger beer.

8 November 2008  Loved the iced cider idea - gotta give that a go.  Once again the Rhubarb champagne featured with the twist to elderflower champagne.  Busy time of the year for both of those drinks.  I mentioned the beerfest at the regatta ground and spent the afternoon there talking to people about beer.

30 August 2008  It was like wagging school - I shut the shop and went off to do the show...  One day I might be able to leave the door open and leave the honesty box and tip jar on the counter and people can serve themselves....  ??  My, what a busy show...  Thankyou Heather for you call to thank me for inspiring you to make all those wines.  I'm glad she's having fun because making wines/beers yourself and having people enjoy them is great fun!!  We touched on cider vinegar making.  Jane needed some start up info for her hubby to make beer.  The good olde ginger beer came up again.  I did my hydrometer nazi thing.  We talked about the advantages of plastic bottles and rhubarb champagne.  Rose petal champagne recipe from the rhubarb recipe and loads more. 

21 June 2008  This week I had a long conversation about Diatose enzyme and its effect on beer - reducing the carbohydrate content and making the beer drier with more alcohol.  There was a short mention of harvesting yeast from a bottle of home brew to start another batch (1/3 cup malt in 500ml water plus the sediment from a bottle, keep warm).  We discovered that wine should be stored out of the light or in dark bottles.  There was also a debate on the quality of water that we use in brewing - town water v tank water.  I concluded that often the chlorine in the water can slow the rate of fermentation as the yeast must first get used to the harsh environment, then breed and then ferment.

3rd November  We covered the old favourites, the ginger beer plant and rhubarb champagne.  I mentioned that now was the perfect time to be preparing your Christmas bevvies.  A caller asked about apple concentrate he used to buy to make cider and another caller came through with where to but it - health food shops.  I reminded myself that I have to bottle my cider!!  We also covered the lemonchello as orangechello and a quick blackberry recipe.

15th September This week featured the coffee ale again, some greengage wine and some lemonchello.  I spoke about the use of diatose enzyme for low carbohydrate beers and carbon treatment for grappa.  We also talked about how to make liqueurs with the vast array of flavours that we provide and whisky you make from vodka.
 

28th July  Started off with apple cider concentrates, then covered lemon syrup and back to apple wine from scratch.  Distillation and licenses.  Talked about the two ways to make port.  Finished with ginger beer plants and a black currant wine recipe.

9th June  We covered heaters and the effects of temperature on the yeast.  A apple cordial recipe that I promised to make.  A coffee ale - yum!!!  Chocolate topping stout.
 

28th April  In this show we covered topics like Irish strawberry wine, crab apple wine, apple wine from juice, rose petal champagne and my recently bottled Sauvignon Blanc from a kit!!

24th March  This show featured draught beer kits to save bottling and plum wine.