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I cannot get an international shipping rate on ebay below $1600 usd to Australia (or any other country outside N America for that matter) so I had to limit the sale to the US and Canada. Sorry guys! If anyone has any bright ideas on how to set up the shipping on ebay to get a lower rate let me...

Okay the BM is now on eBay. Would love to sell it to an Aussie given the large BM community in this country. I have not checked the international shipping rate but hopefully it is not too pricey[emoji482]

Yes will do!

Mardoo - yes $1500 USD. And Coalminer is correct that it is 240v. Thank you WE&L I will look into selling it on EBay [emoji482]

Okay this may be a long shot trying to sell my BM50 on AHB given I am located on the Salish Sea/Georgia Basin region of North America (i.e., Seattle WA USA). I do not think anyone outside North America (and possibly just in the USA) would be interested given the outrageous international...

Hi I added a can of amber LME late boil to my last big brew but realized I could not take a valid pre-boil gravity reading which is requested in Beersmith for determining mash efficiency. I did add the LME as an ingredient but I am unclear if Beersmith takes into account the fact that I had not...

I do have the insulated jacket and copper lid but I am worried that the condensate (with all its evil DMS) collects on the lid and just drips back down into the wort. I certainly get good rolling boils with the copper lid but I have been getting some vegetative off flavors with it which I am...

Does anyone with a 50L BM have trouble keeping a roiling (or is it rolling :blink:) boil without the lid being at least part way on? My preference is to keep it off to reduce DMS but I have not been able to do so. I set the temp to 102C but it typically hovers in the 99-100C range and this...

Received this email from BeerSmith two days late but it does provide the explanation of why you add extract late in the boil. "Both liquid and dried malt extract beers suffer from an effect called a Maillard reaction as well as carmelization when brewing. A Maillard reaction is a chemical...

Mr. No-Tip; Yes I just checked John Palmer's 'How To Brew' book and he does note to add the LME 5 minutes before the end off the boil though no mention of the reason. I suppose at this time you can just end the BM program and manually activate both the pumps and the heater for the final 5...

Hi I ran into a slight problem with liquid malt extract getting into my pumps on my last brew day. I used a can of LME to offset some of the grain bill for my high OG beer I was brewing and added it as the BM was ramping up from mash out temp to boiling temp. I suppose in the future the best...

I was just looking at the Speidel bm recipe for an oak flavored beer which is their only recipe where they call for sparging (due the high OG recipe). The interesting thing I noted was that they say to move the malt pipe up and down several times during the 78C phase. I cannot tell if this is...

Brad C - thanks for the confirmation :D

Speaking of boil off my last 2 brews have had evaporation rates of 17.7% and 18.1% per hour. This seems darn high compared to the other numbers I see folks posting on this forum. it seems more odd since I am brewing in my garage where the ambient temperature is about 10C. Maybe the insulated...

I put in 25L in my last batch and the BM50 circulated fine with the short malt pipe. I will try 28L next time as I would like to bump my final volume up a bit more. Thanks for sharing this info from Ralf at Speidel :lol: