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My Crankandstein 2A mill arrived this morning from Fred (took around 2 Weeks) and I have spent the last few hours playing with it. I made a temporary base and hopper from a piece of scrap plywood I had and a hopper from a 3 litre pop bottle, took about 30 minutes and I am tool challenged :ph34r...

They bioth confuse the hell out of me so I am going to break the mold and say stuff software. Just chuck it all in and hope for the best. :blink:

Nice setup you have there mate, I am well jealous of your shiny kegs, mine are a bit "weathered" but will do the job no doubt. What size copper pipe do you guys use for the pick up in the kettle? At the moment I have 1/2 inch will that be big enough?

Well 24 of the said bottles are now sitting in a large tub of warm water with a liberal dose of napisan, I would of done a few more but that was the biggest tub I own. I will leave them there for a few days and rinse scrub and repeat as needed. Funnily enough we had a saucepan at the back of...

Last week I had a Stout sitting in secondary with no bottles to put it in, it had sat there for almost a Month while I tried to drink enough beer to make empties to start the process again. I was continually running out of bottles. All of a sudden I have more bottles than you could shake a...

I suppose now is as good a time as any to crawl out from the woodwork and admit to being an ex pom myself, only lived in Australia a few Months :P We we're bloody lucky to win at the end though, your tail enders did better than your top order and Shane Warne, What a man! Bring on Old...

Yes I have a Nasa burner and was wondering about the evaporation rate this baby would produce. Do you turn it down once you have a rolling boil just to keep it rolling along and save some gas/evaporation or leave it on full bull?

Nice job Matt!! I only hope my first effort goes as smoothly, all I need now is for my tel-tru's to turn up from the US and I am on, hopefully next weekend...Or earlier :beerbang: Hope your beer turns out Ok.

I am liking the sound of this one, looks pretty straight forward for a first go and should test my system and process. When you say 95% pale ale malt I am guessing that would be around 4.75Kg with the 5% crystal making up the 250gms? Am I way off the mark here or would that be Ok with 12.5...

You can't be serious? :lol:

Yes, I guess you are right. I just held mine by with a welding glove but I was holding the very bottom of the immersion coil about 6 or 7 metres of copper away from the flame, if you are doing a manifold or something smaller it is probably a good idea to use tongs, infact a better idea is to get...

Ah...Right :unsure: I feel like a racehorse ready to run a steeple chase but have not yet done any pole work. Mmmm...Maybe you are right, learn to walk before I can run etc I could think of a few more metaphors but just want to get brewing!!! Ok any good Pale Ale recipes out there :ph34r...

I used my NASA to melt some solder for my IC between the 3/8 copper pipe and the push on brass hoselock fittings that my hose will clip onto. Did the job easily, just remember to wear a welders glove to hold the copper! :excl:

Ok a pale ale it is then :super: I just want to crank the system up and in my newbieness got a bit carried away with thinking I was John Palmer or some other brewer magnifique! Any tips on a good IPA floating about out there? :P

Great minds must think alike because that is the recipe I found on my searches and have decided to have a go it for my first effort. I know that first time around all will not go to plan I will have enough to worry about but I have downloaded promash and tried inputing this recipe (Start as you...

I have almost completed my AG setup and can see me cranking it up within the next few weeks but at this stage I have no idea what I will brew. I fancy trying an Irish red but after looking at various recipe's on the interweb it leaves me wondering how easily most of the grains could be obtained...

I ordered a CGM-2A from Fred in the states last week and the total cost including postage was $159US which is around $200AUS. I think I got a good deal! :blink:

Surely the only way to crack grain with a food processor is to bung it in and give it a blast. :lol: :beerbang: I don't think it would give the best results though. :blink:

Consider the idea "Borrowed" I will crack on with this and when my sundials arrive I will just have to screw em in. :super:

Warren to the rescue again. This looks the business and is probably a better idea then drilling seperate holes for sundial and sight glass..Nice idea. Just one more thing :lol: Where did you get the female T thingy from (Are they readily available) and was your sundial 1/2 inch NPT...