I love low & slow barbecuing with my offset smoker and pairing various barbecued meats with the different beers that I make in addition to vinyl deejaying. I also have been producing a Deep House music show featuring music from my vinyl record collection.
At the end of the day you can only trust your hydrometer. Its no different to brewing beer because you can't trust the airlock. If th elid is not on the fermenter tight enough or if the grommet around the airlock has a leak then your cider could quite easily have been fermenting without any...
I put a litre or two of really hot sodium percarbonate in my kegs in between brews as part of my SOP as well as following this with a starsan dose to sanitise so a system like this would be of no tangible benefit in my case.
Seems that there is a lot of talk about storing yeast and the likes, starters and so forth.
What have people been doing to get their starters started and store their samples safely?
Hey Pok, try Gaganis Bro's on South Road at Hindmarsh (its just 5 mins out of the city) I picked up a 20L pot for $68 and they have bigger ones there as well, aluminium mind you, but they're cheaper than stainless.
I tried the chocolate thing with an oatmeal stout (Partial Grain) and even went to the extent of sourcing the highest percentage cocoa chocolate that I could find (Lindt 85% cocoa content - Dark Chocolate). Melted it in a double boiler (place a metal bowl over a pot of boiling water) and ladled...