You could technically use any weld reg to do the job. The problem like newguy said is the diaphragm. They are made of different materials as the gasses react with different types of rubber. If you don't have a CO2 Diaphragm in your reg there is a chance it could react giving you beer a funny...
Think I read some where about some mad scientist who pulled some yeast out of a bug in some amber. It was some millions of years old and he managed to culture it. Using it to make beer in America now I think.
Think if you need to bring the mash back up to temp, will the element burn the bag? I already burnt a bag with my gas burner through the pot, didn't think that would happen!! I lift the bag off the bottom if I have to add heat now.
There is a guy called Rupert in Albany sells them on Ebay when the time is right I highly recommend him. The rhizomes I got of him have about 1000 flowers on them and there in the first year
He trades under hopswest on Ebay you can set up a alert to email you when he starts selling them.
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I have started filltering my water for my brew. When I am done I pull the filter apart and dry it. Is this what every one else does? It is a gerneral plastic housing with a 1 micron cartridge.
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A brewer called John Boston used fermentable sugars form corn and used cape gooseberry leaves for bittering pre 1804, dont know what it would taste like?
James Squire first sucessfully cultivated hops in Australia in 1804 and was given a cow from the gorvernors heard.
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In a book I got somewhere or mayby the back of a James Squire bottle. I read in reference to the brewer that Squires is founded on that at the start of colony days most beer was imported and when the started making it they used some wild plant for bittering untill the brewer imported some plants...