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Time to part ways with my much loved HERMS Setup. I built this a number of years ago and presents in great condition thanks to it being amost entirely stainless steel including all fittings/valves, camlocks, kingco's etc. I've also given it a bit of a birthday with brand new silicone hoses and a...

Afternoon All, Due to a severe lack of brewing I am reluctantly parting ways with my bar. 4 tap "Lucky 7" font with snap lock fittings from Andale, 2 x perlick flow control, 1 x perlick stout, 1 x lancer tap. Comes with a bunch of spare seal kits though the snap locks were done recently. I...

Moving in with the inlaws while we build a new house so the bar has to find a new home. Andale 'Lucky 7' Font with 2 Lancer and 2 Andale taps 4 decal holders Stainless Steel bar top, recessed drip tray with drain hole 3" round stainless foot rail 2-Pac black finish Under the bar is a chest...

Hi All, Brew day from hell trying to keg 3 batches and make 2 partials. Last task for the day, take ice bathed 6lt boil (approx 15 minutes), dump into the fermenter, top up (23lt) and pitch yeast. Thought I'd better get an OG so ran off into the hydrometer tube and dropped the hydrometer...

Evening all, So I've had a couple of fermenters crash chilling, have prepped the kegs ready to rack and found my smurto's golden has frozen a good 2" in. There is a little tube of damn cold liquid down the centre! Had my fermenting chesty at -2 as usual but obviously left it too long. The Amber...

Morning All, Sorting out my electrics for my herms system and would really like to have some volume control/measurement. The bubbler system suggested by brewtroller looks way too complicated and I think someone posted the link here for heat rated flow sensors...

Hi all, just spotted these on graysonline, someone in NSW could get a real bargain. Haven't seen this style of keg before but they look like basic pin lock jobs to me. Wish they could ship them :( http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0133-500125...ia-x39?spr=true NDH

I've been doing quite a few AG's and various partials based on recipes on this fine site and buy my hops as I go in 100g bags. This means I have a heap of half bags of hops in the freezer and SWMBO is trying to tell me she cant fit any food in there. Most I am familiar with...

Hi All, In the planning stages of a 3V + Herms single tier, single pump system, gas fired Kettle and Electric HLT/HERMS. Got most of the plumbing and fittings sorted and looking at control system solutions. Firstly my budget limits my automation capability to time, temperature and pumping...

Hi All, Just put on a couple of BIAB brews I'd cubed over the weekend, all as per usual except I just checked the fermenting fridge for any action and the O-Ring from the cube must have stuck to the rim of the cube and dropped into the fermenter while I was decanting. Now its mocking me...

Hi all, I recently did a biab Wheat with a culture I got from the trub of a Raspberry Wheat (can't find my brew notes but it could have been a Bavarian Wheat, collected after racking to raspberries). This is the first brew I've done with a culture, I stepped it up and had 3 200mm starters that...

Hi all, Quick question that I hope someone has a simple answer or solution to. I recently built a keggle that I have attached a 1/2" balve valve to and use a 1/2" PVC hose to rack into cubes. As this is boiling wort the tube gets pretty bloody soft and flimsy. I also use a PVC hose attached to...

Hi all, I've just made an extract stout and cubed it with the intention of creating a starter from some coopers bottle yeast and pitching around 1.5l at high krausen. The idea was if the wort was ready i could use the yeast at optimum time. Two problems I have retrospectively encountered: 1...

So I was reading up on raspberry beer after the missus had a Floris and really liked it, Decided on a 23 lt brew using: -A can of Thomas Coopers Wheat -A Brew Booster (500g of Dex, 500g of LDME, 250g of Maltodex) -Another 1kg of Dex -US-05 yeast -1.5kg of fresh frozen raspberries to go in...

Hi All, Have been searching around previous topics to find some piece of mind but didn't find much, here is my dilemma: Extract Pale Ale, ingredients of no particular importance, US-05 yeast Plugged it into Ians preadsheet which has been very accurate for me in terms of OG/FG, 1046 OG - 1010...

Hi all, I posted, some time ago, an issue of sweetness in my brews, regardless of style. Still trying to master the Kits and Bits before moving on to extracts and I have just tapped a keg that is flipping sweet. Brew is as follows made up to 46lt (two 23lt fermenters mixed into a keg) 1 can...

Hi All, My fermenter hasn't been empty since I bought it a few months ago and I've been brewing mostly ales. They've mostly been simple kits with LME: -Coopers Lager with Coopers Light LME, cap yeast(coopers carb drops) (3 months old) -Coopers English Bitter with 500g LDME/250g...