Recent content by Jayvan90

I too started with a kegerator and it wasnt long before I got sick of defrosting it from icing over then messing about with ways to keep the font cool fans, insulation blah blah blah - Qld humidity certainly doesn’t help at all ! So here’s a start on the data base Kegerator- bad F&P - bad...

I bought a second hand f&p - lasted 6months before the compressor died - So I bought the Westinghouse brand new and should have done right from the start ! Was pretty disappointed after all the time put in

Plus I poured myself a dunkelwiess while I was in there of course !

Here’s the badge inside the fridge and a bit of the plumbing i did - I can get 4 kegs plus the gas bottle and regulator

Depends on yeast but I ferment in temp controlled chamber - (fridge plus inkbird and reptile heater) it’s in the shed so 6-9 months a year the temp is pretty stable around 18-20c fine to let an ale rip

Ooooo might try that with my dunklewiess

My point exactly, if you can open ferment in a timber vessel using yeast from a stick hanging by the door and still make drinkable beer then you can afford to try stuff out - not saying be careless with sanitation, good sanitation equals less risk of infections - you won’t know what you like...

I too ferment in keg with spunding… buy yourself a bucket and enjoy a different process … I wonder how brewers fermented before kegs / pressure vessels / stainless steel / sanitiser …. Worry less brew more

Chuck a clean towel over your bucket and let it rip … cold crash when it’s done and bottle / keg - heaps of fun.

Some very basic numbers for your profile Grain absorption- 1L per kg Boil off 3L per hour Dead space 6.6L Trub loss 2L Pay attention to these measurements and fine tune your profile

don't buy either you will eventually be disappointed - make your own

Edit … 6.6L dead space 1L per kg water loss to grain 2L chiller / trub / transfer to fermenter loss Mash grain ratio 3L/kg mash thickness

Hey Brad, For a batch around 5kg of grain I am aiming for 21L into a fermenter - usually gives me a full 19L keg of nice clean beer after cold crash. I usually start at around 31L in the Guten - do my water treatments then pump off around 10ish L for sparge depending on what Brewfather tells...

This one I only found by sheer luck, wasn’t part of a system thankfully was on a transfer line, it’s the only one out of maybe 30 … pretty happy with them other than that

Thanks @Ballaratguy will have a look - it was such a PITA I would prefer to not have it there at all ..even as much as I understand it’s purpose