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What yeast do you recommend that would get there?

Cheers manticle. I'll do that and see how I go. Appreciate the advise. Cheers.

It was meant to be 1.086. Based off of a Pliny the younger recipe. Scaled it all down from a 5 gallon batch to fill a 9 litre keg. So yeh, it was meant to be around 10.2% or so. Having said that, the other beers I've brewed which have been weaker have finished with similar gravitates. From...

I used the plastic fermenters. And yeh, there is always head space in them. I'll give that a try next time. Cheers Dan.

Not sure danscraftbeer. I'm hoping the mash temps are ok as I'd like to think the grainfather was worth the price. But the oxygen pre ferment is above me at this stage.

Cheers for the response manticle and Beer hog. The latest batch for the IIPA included 4.68kg of ale (BB-Au), 200g of medium crystal and 160g of Cara Pils for the malt. Mashed at 66 degrees for an hour and mash out at 77 degrees for 10. Then a 90 minute boil with a range of hops at different...

I use it but I don't believe it works as I get random inconsistent readings. I go off of my hydrometer which is always consistent.

I've made a few all grain batches (pale ale, pacific ale, IPA, IIPA and a porter) and can't seem to reach the final gravity target. All recipes I've used have said a final gravity of 1.010 and all of mine have come out at between 1.024 and 1.018. All beers so far have tasted good and I'm happy...

Awesome. Thanks for the quick response. So if I leave it at 83kpa that's good enough to dispense my carbonated beers and will carbonate each additional keg in a week or 2?

Hi all, Just built a keezer and am not sure about the pressure I should have the gas at. I have four 19L kegs and one 9L keg running off a 6kg gas bottle. Got good carbonation off the first keg and have since connected another and will soon be connecting all 5. Does anyone have any suggestions...

Cheers for the info. I ended up pitching a little higher than I wanted to about 4 hrs after I put it in the fridge. Hopefully nothing has made its way into the fermenter. I'll try cooling it further in the future. Cheers.

Thanks guys. That's what I was checking on. I wasn't sure if leaving it in the fermenter for too long without yeast was going to be a problem. I do have temperature control and it's slowly lowering so should be able to pitch tonight.

Cheers. About 30 minutes. So I'll just leave it in the fridge and will then pitch when it's at the right temp. Cheers.

Quick question. Just made my first all grain brew and the counter flow chiller could only get my wort temp down to 29 degrees which is the temp that's coming out of my tap. Is it ok to sit the fermenter in the fridge and wait for it to get to 18 degrees by itself or should it be chilled quicker...

Thanks for all of that info Les. I am interested in all of that. Cheers.