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Not that much wrangling, but you do need to have all your stock insured because if the beer goes missing or up in smoke the govt still want their excise.

I once asked my German mate, when is oktoberfest? His wife was nice to me and said sometimes it starts in September.

Depends what you want to brew, but ale temps are the norm 18-22 but it can be used colder than that according to the info from lallemand.

With that reg and a 32 jet burner I reckon you could fill a hot air balloon, I was shooting a 3 foot flame with the reg turned right up but that was only testing in the lets see what this thing can do phase.

Doesnt seem to mention that small breweries get a fair chunk of their excise back, apparently under the wet tax if you make less than a set amount you dont even need to pay. I feel sorry for the boutiqe distillers who have to pay shit tonnes of excise. Next time you look at a boutiqe bottle of...

Looks good.

The stainless fly wire in my dryer drum will achieve the rootlet removal.

Looking through that page gave me a stainless chubby.

http://www.graysonline.com/sale/3013354/food-chem-processing/food-processing-equip-s-s-tubs-tables-trolleys-racks?spr=true Check out this page might have something for you

From memory it was grays online who were selling off a cordial factories equipment. It was a big open vat with an angled bottom which I cut off and welded back to a flat bottom. Very ordinary welding job but you gotta learn somewhere

I bought a 450 lt one from one of the auction sites, you just need to keep an eye out on businesses closing down and be patient. Made mine into a 350lt 1V system. Not in homebrew country any more Toto.

Planting and growing would be ok, harvesting would be a bitch, and grain prices are pretty poor atm. Would be better to grow something inter row that will build or feed the soil.

I was unaware of that product, thanks. Still like to stick to traditional methods though. As for the grain matting I just used a rake and moved it around every day on the concrete floor until the acrospire was the correct length, never noticed any matting problems. Unfortunately I tried the same...

Looks more like a rat made that hole.

I made some malt which I havnt used for any thing yet a while back, I found the germination to full modification was the easy part. Tryng to dry 25 kg of wet grain without thinking it through was the hard part. I now have some industrial size clothes dryers that I am going to modify to produce...