Recent content by fw00r

Hey Eric, I hope it doesn't turn out this way for you but when I tried to make a cider from freshly pressed apples, it turned in to Apple Cider Vinegar due to (best guess) the yeasts and bacteria naturally living on the skins. I pitched a fair amount of yeast but these other bugs either...

Just realised I'd posted already here!

Just chiming in to say that I was surprised to find a leak from the top of my ball lock post disconnect. It was resolved by tightening the thing down. Have since switched to stainless and barbed but might be worth checking.

The keg proxy on the far right might mean you need a pretty tall collar, from my experience.

Looks fantastic!

I'll get to pickup angle as you questioned but background first... No doubt there are brewers that do the full gamut, from fermenting the lot, to filtering to the nth micron. The trub still exists in BIAB for the most part due to proteins from the grain, and hop mass if you don't control it...

I was living in Darwin doing all grain for a while, up till recently. I had Barret Burson grain, and just kept it in that plastic lined bag until required. I did keep it in a internal, non windowed room that was rarely accessed. The grain didn't go off, slack, rot or anything. Any spec malts I...

Quoting myself to report back: Harshness from Galaxy bittering addition was not really present for me!

Interesting, Thanks for the feedback all, Will have to see how it goes! Tasted fine from the hydro sample... but that was with a 1.051 level of sweetness.

40L BIAB APA Milled over kettle+bag from ~40degC 8kg BB Ale 1kg BB Wheat 500g Medium crystal Mashed @ 67degC Post mash gravity 1.049 40g Galaxy @ 60min 50g Cascade @ 15min 50g Cascade @ 5min Chilled below 70 (IC) Chilled to pitching (PC) S-04 OG 1.051 post boil

A______NCE Went with Advance 12kg... Got this

I think you're on the right track peteru, but in the case of not being able to trust the spunding valve that seems to be a way to get some of the benefits. Ideally the valve would work as required... but 40psi seems to suggest it wasn't for Danscraftbeer.

HI AM, From memory doing a partial boil with the steeped sweet liquid (from the caramalt) and maybe a portion of the liquid extract will put you in the right gravity (sugar dissolved in wort) range for hop utilisation. This range is about 1.040 IIRC. I've attached a recipe from the Kit and...

I started off using an aquarium heater while I was back in Tas, Worked ok for the first while but infections crept in and I shunned brewing for a while. Turned out the top of the heater has a void that was harbouring all sorts of crap, it made contact when the krausen reached it, and transferred...

First 30L or so gets run to buckets in the current setup, used for cleaning later on. Rest gets returned as its sitting at a pretty reasonable temp after 30L. I've been using the IC to get to about 30degC, takes about 35mins for ~40L, and am happy to minimise the potential contamination time...