Recent content by T.D.

A true shame Warren! Gotta say your beers have been some of the best HB I have come across, it will be a shame not to have it on the scene anymore! Best of luck mate. I'd say we'll all be very envious of you and your fitness, trading beer for exercise!

There has been talk of this for yonks but never seems to come to fruition. Apparently the 2.0 version will work on macs as well as PCs. But who knows when it will be here...

I remember seeing this topic in the top threads list a few times but never got around to reading it. I thought the title meant that just the coles brand goo was being deleted. I realised this was not the case last night at 9pm when bottling a batch of Rye IPA, everything set up and ready to...

Exactly the same as that mate!

Just regular low pressure bbq jobbie. I have one set up on natural gas too (mains gas) which I think is marginally less powerful than the LPG one but still easily manages a rolling boil for ~40L on 2 rings.

I have a 3 ring burner and have done plenty of 40L+ boils with no problems at all. Good rolling boil on either the outer two rings or the inner and outer rings.

Sorry to slightly hijack this one, but does anybody know if the nickle plated fittings are ok to use, say in the mash? Will the nickle plating react in a bad way or anything?

I use one of these on my big system and can easily do 150L batches with it, and even then its a struggle to keep boilovers from occurring. I would think it could handle at least 200-250L boils if necessary. They suck some gas though, for a 150L batch it goes through pretty much a full 9kg bottle.

One thing I always wonder about hard-plumbed rigs is how are you going to empty the mash tun? Bailing it out?

Dexion new is not cheap at all. You have to luck out and find some second hand for it to be worthwhile...

Are there issues with using galvanised steel with burners. I thought it gave off some nasty toxins when heated up? I was always told not to weld galvanised stuff for this reason...

Where's my popcorn... :D

Scary! Feels like yesterday I was seeing this pic!

After around 7 years of AG brewing I have actually ended up back using a mash tun just like this. Its the one that G&G sells - 20L plastic bucket and 9" s/s FB. Great setup. As much as a lot of people end up moving to more "substantial" setups, this one really does everything you need for a...

For me its amber malt and american hops. Particularly Amarillo. Just grate against each other I reckon.