Recent content by dubbadan

I'm just visiting Smellbourne and have noticed a very tall narrow circular tower coming up from the Carlton Brewhouse property. Does anyone know what it is? Is it just a big fume stack or something else?

Ok thanks. It seems as though more vigilant observation may be required {or nuclear war)

Hmm thanks I'll keep an eye out for the lady beetle, but I haven't noticed any obvious pests last year or this...

Hi. I've had some great harvests over about 4 or 5 seasons with my chinook. The last one was quite diminished and I remember that the leaves showed a pattern of destruction that is showing again this year. I haven't seen an obvious pest. I put compost on the soil in late winter as I have done...

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You can get little mesh bags from brew shops which are perfect for that. I use a big mofo BIAB bag for boiling hops in my 70L pot.

Yeah I was gonna say, can you just use more silicone? Looks like real_beer has a similar idea.

Awesome. My Chinook are monsters too.

Another tip: boil up a big pot of water and then chill it somehow (I put the pot in an ice bath in the sink) and keep it in the fridge in PET bottles or whatever. Very handy for brining down the temp of your brew. I will reiterate what everyone else has said thus far: the 3 most important things...

Talking, of course, about my hop trellis...

+1 Even when I use the mobile app with my phone in my pocket I still sometimes miss a timer alarm.

That's what I do to get a bit more length on MY pole...

I'd go for accuracy. I use a pt100, it's really not that slow.

Dubbadan, mate that product might be gold for me, my stomach can usually handle one or two pots regular beer, but anymore I am crook for a few days. Nice score. Yeah I haven't tried it yet but I'm keen to give it a go. I want to do a brew for a celiac friend.

Anyone tried this? http://www.whitelabs.com/other-products/wln4000-clarity-ferm If it does what they say it does, you can brew in the normal way and use this to drop out all but 20ppm of gluten (apparently the international standard for gluten free).