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Yes please, would complement my collection of inkbird products nicely!

Nothing wrong with that, and in fact i expect to do the same soon :) Thanks for sharing

Looks great. Just bang it into Coke for 24 hours, bit of pepper/coriander etc? What temp and how long did you smoke it for?

Check out Soga pots online. Available on Ebay etc, good value.

Yes please - inkbird products are great!

Wow, great system, great price!

Temp control will likely make a world of difference, good move.

I have a Belgian dubbel that is a staple, it’s good as soon as kegged. Not to say that conditioning is not a good thing, but it’s also perhaps not a necessity. This one is about 6.5%, I think in general the higher the abv the more benefit to conditioning. Probably a gross generalisation?

I think you really only need a little water. Brew day I put about 10l in a 20l pot, using the hot water from the heat exchanger for better cleaning. Soak hoses etc, pour some into pump and hex coil to soak for a bit. Rinse after. Tip a litre or two into mash and boil pots, scrubby to clean...

Yeast wise I mostly use Mangrove Jacks Belgian Tripel M31. Nice yeast. You can use the Brewers Friend yeast calculator to work out how much you need. Assuming at this stage you won’t be growing starters, so just work out how many grams you need for your batch size and gravity. Ask here for...

Roban or Racumin reduce this - Talon and similar are bad for secondary kill

Perhaps a little late, but to get small tubing on: 1. Grab some needle nose pliers 2. Put the end of your tube in hot water to soften it 3. Use the pliers to stretch the tube by inserting them closed into the end of the tube and opening to stretch to the required amount 4. Hot water the tube and...

Yes, please

Forgot about this thread, thanks for very interesting info. So, to take the technical level down a bit: Added sucrose to the fermenter to make up the gravity shortfall, turned out nice. Added about 2 days into ferment, was surprised by how much it had dropped. Think it was about 20 points.

Thanks Mark, great comments Water was a bit rushed last night - Additions to get Chimay target mineral profile. Appreciate that there is raising and lowering going on, but this seemed required to get the profile. I don’t tend to add acid to sparge, might need to look into this more. Re...