Recent content by pdilley

2 litres is fine. I don't have the free time with a near 4 hour daily commute so I do straight 2 litres and no steps to recover yeasts with success. I have photos but no post yet of the 3 year old Scottish Ale yeast I pitched 4 days ago into the fermenter and did a 2 year past expired date White...

Very nice photo. You are right on reduced OG, there is much less sweetness to overcome with bitterness and you need to rebalance to compensate or go over bitter. Cheers, Brewer Pete

For those that haven't started a reminder to adjust water for cooking oats if you pre geletanise them. I had visitors over looking, taking photos, asking questions and being distracting but in a good way and I am pretty sure now that the wife grabbed and cooked the oats trying to help out. No...

They all have thermstats built in but not accurate so dial in 20 then after the light goes off test the water temperature with another thermometer to calibrate how far out your fish tank heater is. Or use a Temp Controller and set the fish tank heater to maximum and use the Temp Controller to...

Now that I am in the cold highlands and have 4 temperature controllers at hand I use the water bath method. The bottles are in a very large plastic storage container and water added just to cover their lower half. Fully submersible fish tank heater for $10 delivered from eBay and I am humming...

:icon_offtopic: Now that I'm on septic system. All my litres of yeast trub and any yeast at all gets flushed down the toilet into the septic. Bacteria and yeasts are the ingredients in the organic, no-chemical septic treatments you can buy locally here. I figure one yeast cake has more yeast...

Basic sterile technique: 1. Have enough water to last an hours boil without boiling dry 2. Have something to raise your equipment inside the cooker off the water layer 3. Start a boil with the equipment stacked inside with the lid on but no weight if you have a weight system 4. After the steam...

I use the cheap no name non scented homebrand bleach with the homebrand white vinegar. Mixed with water to no rinse ratio all the time. To keep it easy in my head without decimals to remember I just use 5 litres water to 10ml bleach and 10ml vinegar. Never had a problem with it but won't knock...

I do have a need for larger pots and pressure cookers than the average domestic as being on a farm all preserving needs to be done with the seasons and doing heaps of little pot canning and preserves wastes time and fuel. The rest of the time, no. Cheers, Brewer Pete

I had a 5 burner nat gas with large centre ring burner at the previous rental and loved it. Did all my early BIABs on it. But I did notice when the centre one was in use there was not much room for anything else. I also love wok cooking but think I will hae to buy new flat bottomed woks to sit...

FWIW, I have revived 2 year expired White Labs yeasts including nearly 3 months in a warehouse non-refrigerated. Once I pick up supplies from the PO this Friday, I will work on reviving a Wyeast 1728 slurry from 2008. I should know by the 23rd how it goes and will ferment out a cube of stout...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring#Colour_code Start there. I take it you know your country of origin for the equipment? Cheers, Brewer Pete

If you are at the stage in your brewing where you are making yeast slants or using petri plates with yeast and have a stir plate you have most of the gear already and even the stir plate is optional unless you want mass liquid mycelial slurries created. A little handy work and you could build a...

I did see some 2 burner models out there. It did let me pause and think about building my own custom cooktop out of multiple 2 burner models to get what I want (larger burners and no small useless burners). I'll have to do some more searching as time permits and look at the various options to...

Beerhog, Running the cooktop as gas is very economical, thats the only reason why I'm considering it. All my cookware is either restaurant aluminium, or anodised aluminium, and the odd SS stock pot so induction is out as a choice leaving only electric which is, in my opinion bottom of the heap...