She'll be right. When yeast and hops are floating about it can muck with the taste of your beer. By the time it's finished carbonating in a bottle most of that stuff will form a nice lil plug on the bottom.
I'm pretty sure they don't provide any protection against oxygen. What they do offer protection against is drunken opening of beers that shouldn't be drank drunk.
There's ya problem. Once alcohol is involved you need to do some calcs to get a refractometer to read right. Beersmith mobile has a handy tool that does it.
Just did the same to mine TOF. Just machined a slightly bigger groove. Hope it works cos that slow dribble is mighty frustrating. Small leaks aside I'm really happy with my purchase of two brew buckets. Also ordered 50 replacement orings for $9.something shipped...
1000mm wide x 600mm deep. 770mm high bench/mash level. 1170 high hlt level. 30 galvanised rhs for framework. Stainless bench top.
I'm happy to weld in another piece of rhs if for some reason your mash tun is too small to fit my gap¿ (62L Marine esky shown in photo)
Can have it for $100 or swap...
Amazing what mspaint, plain office paper and milk can do to a bottle : p. I figure being homebrewers people wanna know what went into the beer as they drink it/pour it down the sink.
I brewed a dubbel for the swap last Sunday. Probably pitch yeast this weekend. Tweaked a few things I learnt from the last one, made an even better dark candy syrup. Real stoked for this event.
Cracked jyo's blonde. Love it. What yeast did you use?
Also side note. I tried one of my bitters last night. Bit embarrassed. If anyone wants a beer refund next time they're down Armadale way I'll be happy to provide you with a better, less "old extracty" tasting beer.