Recent content by sjcampbell

Love the fermenter! Easy to clean and I like the way it pulls apart and it doesn't spin in the thread when you try and turn it on and off. I'd really like to buy another one but I don't want the whole kit. We don't get fruit flies up here in the highlands. Cheers Steve

Just have an old heater belt hanging down the side of the fridge. Works a treat. Cheers Steve

Remember there are the chilling ones on the inside, and the warm ones on the outer skin. You don't want to hit either :) Cheers Steve

But it appears to dispense from the pressure vessel, which is also the fermenter. So as soon as you finish the beer you have to wait seven days for another one - or am I missing something? Cheers Steve

Years ago when I started brewing we were in Sydney and I boiled water and allowed it to cool before filling my fermenters to make sure the water was sterilised. I did this by adding the boiling water to a cube and closed it up - like no-chill. Now we live on the farm I still do the same as the...

Another one for a Mac port. If not an iPhone/iPad app. But as has been said it might not be feasible depending how it was written. Cheers Steve

ekul, Sorry just edited my post - it is now "is 100L pot too BIG for a single (23 litre) batch." Just me being dyslexic when I type :) Cheers Steve

So why don't you use the PBW on the Ally pots. I am making up my mind what to buy at the moment and Ally is in front - mainly on cost, but I also want something I don't have too treat with kid gloves. BTW, Is a 100 litre pot tot big for a single? Cheers Steve

A Darwin award in the making :) Cheers Steve

I believe Micromatic are 1/4 inch NPT, but left hand threads. Have a look at Ross's website on ganging a second gauge - I'm pretty sure he says they are left handed. Cheers Steve

I got a sheet of ally checkerboard plate and cut it to the shelf size (scrap from local Metalland - or you can buy it in the big green shed). Then I got some Ally angle I had in the shed. Put the angle underneath the existing shelf, the checkerboard plate on top and screwed it together making a...

Alcohol is an old timer's cure for colic and bloat. It relaxes the muscles and then .......buuurrrpppp ......... fffaaaaaarrrrtttt!!!!!! Horse and cattle generally like the taste of beer (even XXXX!!!!) - even better if you put a bit of molasses on it. But you need a fair bit Cheers Steve

I'd be worried if there was anybody's on your dunny rolls! Beware the skid marks I say! Cheers

Nahhh .....shitty idea :) Cheers

Newbie Alert!!!!!! For the "25 grams of Cascade Dry Hopped after about 5 days..." Do you just throw these in the fermenter, sterilise them first (somehow) or boil/steep and put liquid in? Cheers Steve