Recent content by Dinham

$40 for two hose connectors? You and I clearly shop at different hardware stores. :) Hose coupling - $2 Hose connector - $2 2x hose clamps - $1.75 ea (something like $0.85 ea if you buy a box of 10) Max $7.50 per side by my calculations. I'm not knocking your choices, it just seems like an...

About $50 off I think. They didn't have any more at the time and I got the impression factory seconds don't come up often.

Not to mention a heck of a lot cheaper.

I bought mine as a second from KK. It had some rust in the inside of the lid. I soaked it overnight in PBW and then it scrubbed right off.

This has been the reply for at least 6 months.

Cheers TwoCrows. That's actually what I did on my second batch (mentioned one page back). Now it's all settled out I've realised I do have far less hop matter than in the first batch, so it's been somewhat successful. I was trying to keep my operation as stripped back as possible but I am going...

I'm only stressing about the hop matter making it into the fermenter because I don't want clogged kegs again! That was a pain in the ass. I guess I need to either get a spider or sihpon off the top rather than try and use my fermenter's tap. Is 110g a large amount of hops in a boil?

My malts were: Gladfield Crystal Dark Malt Gladfield Ale Malt Briess Rye Malt Briess Caramel Malt 60L And the crush was 1.2mm from my LHBS. Should I go courser? Finer? I did use Whirlfoc. On my first batch I didn't worry about how much hop matter got into the fermenter as I don't really...

Here it is. Any advice appreciated! Keep in mind I have the newer version with lower tap giving me 1.75L of dead space and not 3.5L.

Right well I just did my second robobrew batch. I avoided the compacted grain bed issue I had on my first run by using 300g of rice hulls and mashing out at 77C. I poured my vorlaf very, very slowly. Flowed nice any easy this time. The big problem I had was I ended up with a metric ****-tonne...

Do you have the original model with 3.5L dead space or the newer one with 1.75L? The would obviously effect the need to whirlpool quite a lot.

I realized on my first batch that if you want to get it cooled in any reasonable amount of time you have to stir pretty much constantly. I can see the appeal of a pump meaning you don't have to do that manually.