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Awesome, I have all the above Cheers

Afternoon all, Anyone know the best way/product to use to clean out copper pipe? Im converting my immersion chiller into a counterflow chiller so id like to give the pipe a good cleanup before i put wort through it... It has a bit of that blue/greenish residue in it that you usually see on...

For storage, I use my old Army trunks, air/moisture tight seal and I can fit 3 full sacks per trunk. Obviously not everyone will have these lying around but you can buy similar commercially available ones at bunnings, BCF or somewhere similar. They can be a bit pricy but they work a treat. Will...

If you have a vacume sealer (awesome investment) its a great way to store some of those not-so-often malts (smoked for example). Usually if i need an odd malt ill still buy around 1kg even if i only need 300g or so because you never know when i cracking recipe might pop in your head and you need...

I agree, keeping them pest free can be a pain in the arese if you dont have good storage... Im similar to mckenry, I always buy my spec grains in 5kg lots and have bulk supply of base malts + wheat.

Some MO definitely, maybe some Munich or Vienna.

Thats the place where I got the idea to do it. Works realy well and looks the part too.

I etched permenant 5L increments on the inside of my 50L HLT Its really easy and you can use vinigar and salt to make an electro-etchant. All you need is a 9v battery some wire and a cotten tip. Just google etching stainless steel and you will find it. Looks awesome, I only put lines in mine but...

wow, there is certainly a pattern of problems with these elements.

Yeah, I'll get over there and see him this week.

Looks like the old one mate, has the screw on black tube. bought it here in coffs from Country brewer.

I see... Well I'll try to dry out any moisture and see if that helps but if not I guess I wont be suprissed if it is stuffed. As the saying goes "you get what you pay for" wont be a tight arse next time...

There is not "boom" or noise as such, it just trips the circuit breker on the houses swich board corresponding to the powerpoint its attached to. I hope your right about it just being a little moisture in it, ill take it out this arv and try to dry it out. Thanks, Mick

Morning all, Had a shocker of a brew day/arv/night yesterday all because my new heating element shorted out my house whenever i tried to turn it on. This was going to be the first brew moving from gas HLT to electric... The element worked fine when i bought it (did a test run with a full HLT)...

Interesting, I had one drop off my cascade the other day, i blamed it on the bush turkeys but perhaps it may be the same situation as you.

Oh really? Ive never used it before, should be interesting since im brewing a porter.

Wow, looks awesome mate.

Putting this puppy down this arv. Brown Town Porter Estimate (brewtarget) OG - 1.048 FG - 1.010 IBU - 23.7 75% efficiency 79% MO 8% Brown malt 8% Dark crystal 5% Choc 67* for 60m 75* for 10m 60min Fuggles - 20.7 IBU 10min Fuggles - 3 IBU Danstar Nottingham @19* 1 vanilla bean in secondary...

agreed, like I said, force of habit. and I do 27lt batches anyway so I guess a starter wouldn't hurt. Alls good now, turns out I was being impatient, took a gravity reading and had not started to ferment yet so I left it and it kicked off early yesterday, perhaps my starter temp was a bit low...

Interesting stuff guys, thanks. I guess using a starter is a force of habit because I generally only use liquid yeast that I have farmed from previous batches. Might go check the gravity.... Cheers, Mick