Recent content by kieran

There's the rub. I don't chamfer, I push hard, line kinks. I'll try the twist first, then chamfer. I just think the duo tight mechanism needs some more engineering work on it to make it easier. As I said, John Guest fittings were never ever this hard.

Hey all, Is it just me, or when you push some keg land evobarrier line into a duo tight fitting, you have to push so hard your line kinks? That is, you can get it in, but pushing it right into the fitting to properly mate them together is near impossible. (Using the Kee YouTube video with a...

Holy Moses this thing is a mongrel to custom calibrate. Loading in a polynomial equation gives numbers that are reversed. I have 12 gravity readings from 1000 to 1096 with angles from about 29.6 to 70 something. The polynomial curve ever so slightly s-shaped. Yet water reads 1.072... And if I...

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Does anyone have any experience with the Kegland Brewzilla 3.1 (the next 1/2 gen on from the old Kegking robobrew moniker... presumably Kee is keen to dissect away all old keg kingness from his kegland products).

Mmm. Ideas. Rouse the yeast and raise temp. Pump oxygen into it, even straight air (take care not to pump unfiltered air in as you may pump your wort full of wild yeast). At a pinch you can rouse and oxygenate in one step by dumping the wort (with lots of splashing) into another vessel and then...

I haven't seen the video, but if he uses some sort of yeast nutrient and a decent volume, there's absolutely no problem with pre warming at all. Talking about autolysis in this amount of time is tosh when the yeast cell cycle is roughly 1 hr 20 mins. The manufacturer recommended guidelines are...

You can pellet cells/proteins at 500g, just keep it well cool and give it time, and the rotor well balanced, shaft machined to german or japanese perfection, buckets well attached (swinging or not). There are other ways though that could work. 10000xg is an incredibly fast spin for this. I can't...

I reckon you could make a bucket centrifuge using a high torque angle grinder and a bit of metal fabrication. However if it falls apart it'd knock a hole through a wall. You'd need to run it inside an old washing machine of something. I like this idea. I reckon you could pellet this stuff at...

I got on this too.... Wait and see. Agreed that something nice could come from MS here. They're an entirely different company these days.

79 - Sydney Brewery oatmeal IPA was good. 8 - White chocolate raspberry pilsner by Ross was very very good. 1 - 2 Brothers "Magic Pudding" was a very well brewed barley wine style beer/christmas ale. The balance between alcohol/malt and bitterness was perfect. A dangerously drinkable 9.5%ABV...

You're right.. in the video it sounds like an Airbus A380 waiting to take off. You'll have to take it from me though, that it really doesn't sound that loud in 'real life'. My phone does an amazing job of picking up those frequencies. This high pitched noise is the PWM in action.. it turns the...

My mill rig, using the same mill, same motor, a motiondynamics PWM controlller, my own shaft (a bit of rod from bunnings, which i dodgily cut key grooves in with a dremel), a lovejoy coupling, an ikea kitchen trolley, and my hopper as you can see is a little bin from Kmart. I cut a hole in the...

I use 2x2400W grimwood 'over the side' elements in a 26L brew, boil like a mofo for 1 hour. Lose 6L of water in the process. No DMS issues.

If the edge will bother you, apply some clear silicone to all the 8mm lower edges/corners, thick enough so it raises the edges to draw flow back into the middle. There are food-friendly silicones able to adhere to rigid plastics, withstand "chemical attack" (I wouldn't call a mash acidic, but a...