Recent content by barefoot

Morning all, Just wanted to give a big thumbs up to Lael, I received a kit from him yesterday and it is a really well thought out and finished product. Anyone who is thinking of getting one, do it before he runs out of kits! Cheers, Brett

Alfadog - 2X TBA Tipsymcstaggers - 2X TBA Luggy - 1 x TF Maris Otter kwinchee - 2x TBA Barefoot - 1 x BB Wheat Total = 8 Prefer Craftbrewer but happy to travel.

Lads, I imagine I must be too late but if not, count me in to round the order out to 40. I'll be in for the next time around too with at least 2 bags (4 if I can't get on this one). Cheers, Brett

Only the keg side is controlled directly (STC1000), the fermenting side is adjustable using the "coldness dial" which I guess is merely a vent to the freezer side.

I'm not sure if anything like this has ever been done before, but I've decided to call my little setup, a ferkegerator! That's a fermentor, keg and refrigerator all together. Pictures can do all the talking, but basically, I can serve beer at 2 degrees and ferment at between 15 and 20 degrees...

I put down a mangrove jacks mild a few weekends ago, straight from the pouch it looked and smelt better than the normal tins, only time will tell if it turns out though. However, even though it had "premium yeast" I still didn't see as much activity as I had previously with S04.

Thanks for the tips guys, but the brew went down as described in the OP. It's sitting in my temp controlled fermenting fridge (excited about this), and SG readings slowly going down. Last reading was approx 1.016 so a couple days to go before crash chilling. Tasted the hydro sample, of course...

Evening all, Bottled my first brew this evening, so now I'm looking forward to putting down my second. The plan: I have a left over Mangrove Jacks Classic Bitter (8-10 EBC,18-22 IBU in 23L) I am keen to get some malt flavours so I want to experiment with Morgans Caramalt blend, apparently 12...

Taking the fermenter out of the fridge tonight to warm prior to bulk priming and bottling tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to it.

I realised after a bit more reading, that what I was suggesting was a bit of corner cutting, and being that I'm not short on time, isn't really required. So as beerhog suggested, I dropped the hops in to the primary which is still in the fridge, I'll leave it in there until Saturday, when I will...

Good afternoon everyone, I had a bit of a search around without much results, so thought I'd throw a quick question up. My first brew is a simple mid strength K&K using mangrove jacks classic bitter, and approximately 250g Dextrose, 125g Light Malt Extract and 125g maltodextrin, topping up to...