Recent content by Nick667

Ive been trying to get my pitch rates a bit better and when Brewfather software tells me to use 1.5 packets of yeast I store the remaining half pkt of yeast in foil, wrapped in plastic wrap in the fridge. Is this what others do? Here in NZ the cost of say US-05 is around $8 and even higher at...

I feel the same, beer should taste like beer not wine but it seems to be the Kiwi IPA goto with craft breweries.

I was just playing around with a recipe co Brewfather, Philter XPA, I cant get that here either but my son said it is very good. It uses Citra, Galaxy, Mosiac and Simcoe.

I am playing with a clone that uses Galaxy hops but here in NZ I can only find 100grm packs and they are reasonably costly in the big picture. So I was talking to one of the guys at my HB shop and he suggested that Galaxy is ' just Australia's copy of Nelson Sauvin, a NZ hop. However doing some...

Thanks guys, will get one next week and Brewfather has a calculator, it really does taste like tannins.

Thanks Mark, I never had this problem with biab and I am starting to wonder if the temp is correct on the Brewzilla, will check. How much lactic acid do you use? Is there a calculation? Nick.

Hi there, I have a Brewzilla and I think I am getting bitterness from sparging with to much water and extracting tannins. I am getting quite good numbers over all but always to bitter. Is there a simple rule of thumb for sparge volume and grain weight or mash volume without setting up the...

Hi there I was playing with the idea of getting a pressure fermenter but I bulk prime and bottle and dont plan to keg at this stage. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to bottle with this style of fermenting and without C02. If it can be done, how would I use the bulk prime calculators with...

Can anyone tell me what numbers to put into Brewfather for 35lt Brewzilla eg efficiency ( 75? ), boil off loss / evaporation, and dead space. I n was consistantely getting 75% plus efficiency with biab. I just got one and need somewher to start. Thanks.

Thanks for your replies. My boil pot has a large diameter and I get a huge loss during the boil I also get a lot of krud / trub going into the fv, its a real seat of your pants way to go so the filter effect of these systems with recirculating pumps is appealing. What sort of loss as a...

I have been brewing BIAB for a number of years and at times it can be a bit of a pain in the ass with my gas system. I have to do it outside so weather plays a big part and any wind can really mess with the boil and evaporation ( live NZ ), so at times it gets too hard so I dont do it. I have 2...

So even the app does something different again and I should forget about my calculator. Being in NZ I am just trying to be a bit loyal to the locals but thinking to much really hurts whats left of my brain and it looks like I am wasting my time. It has to be easy. Maybe better to use only 1:1...

Thats what I am worried about.

I contacted Gladfield and they sent a link to a conversion app that I cant use so it wasnt a lot of help really. I just want to get my head around it and make sure that I have got the right way around.

I try to use as much Gladfield malt as I can but when using the malt alternative chart I need to know if I am converting quantities correctly. Swap ratio uses old malt as a quantity of 1 and many of the Gladfield malts have a swap ratio of 1.2, 1.5. 1.1 ect. The way that I read this is for...