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Fantastic write up! I've had two Robobrews that never failed me but ended up passing them on to other brewers that were just getting into the craft, bought two 35L Brewzilla's and apart from upgrading the screen (FOMO) on one of them, have also performed without fault. I digress, but anyone...

Thank you WEAL for your insightful contribution to the thread.

AFAIK there's no problem with using a 'home brewing setup" BUT a few things in no particular order worth considering: Waste- Have you got a plan for all the spent grain, hops, wastewater, yeast/ tub etc? Packaging- Cans/ bottles/ kegs? then there's the labelling and transportation costs...

Location?

I am not having any luck finding the recipe- I thought for sure it was on the old Beersmith, will check hard copy folders.

I have and it turned out ok, I intentionally dialled back on the lactose from memory- recipe is on the other laptop.. I'll power it up in the morning and post what I went with. Definitely remember culturing up some yeast from a four pack and I distinctly remember it going nuts!

I don't imagine anything you could do at this point would improve it, even extended conditioning I don't think will help.. I'd just see how it is and chalk it up to experience. Post back here would be great even if just as a cautionary tale.

The big players have the buying power to reduce a lot of their production costs, command a lot of taps through incentives that most (if not all) Indies can't match, and have placed themselves (presumably by design) within a sector of the market that isn't subject to change and there's no...

Pretty sure the fresh stuff should be hitting our shores (more widely available) shortly but yes it's also likely that LHBS will sell their older stock first. Unless they are importing them directly from the states they will be stocking from a few hop wholesalers, that I'm sure will also be...

Ciao Daniele, Malts: Bairds Pale ale 83.9% Weyermann Munich II 8% Weyermann Pale Wheat 4.5% Bairds Caramalt 3.6% Mash 69c for 60 mins Hops: Pacific Jade ~ 7ibu (60 min boil) Flameout: 2g/L Nelson Sauvin 2g/L Taiheke 1g/L Riwaka Dry hop for 5 days: 2g/L Nelson Sauvin 2g/L Taiheke 1g/L...

A post from 10 years ago may no longer be relevant (recipes change over time), similarly a brewer at a craft brewery in Sydney commenting on a brewery in Victoria (that doesn't list either of those hops in the beer on their website) may also be questionable.

Couple random questions for KL; 1. Any chance you could add a function on your site to filter by available products? I.e when browsing in 'hops' I could filter so all sold out hops appear at the end? 2. How do you determine what gets bumped up or down on your production/order list? E.g If a...

Citra, Mosaic, and either Idaho 7 or Nectaron is two combo's I've used and been happy with..three hops is the magic number imo... BUT if I have Nelson on hand I always throw~15g in as well during the bio transformation additions (Day 3/5) as I find it only needs a light touch but seems to...

Fingers crossed

In my opinion a much easier solution is to just attach a carb cap to your blow off tube, and then a disconnect (gas/liquid) and a bit of tubing that goes into your jar (or whatever) of water. As you start to cold crash either add a little CO2 to the fermenter via carb cap or wait until the...