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As per the original recipe, but just scaled back for 23 litre batch. Don't have the recipe with me, but it would have been about 15g each of cascade and B-Saaz I'd say. 10 days secondary + 12 days cc = 22 days. Obviously over-done, at least for this little black duck. Live and learn.

Just a note for those following this thread thinking about dry hopping this beer. While brewing this I got otherwise distracted at flame-out and missed out the 0 min hops. So in my wisdom I figured I'd dry hop instead, can't be that big of a difference, surely. Brew was no chilled, primary for...

Mine did the same thing once and I thought I was pretty thorough with the napisan. Now I always finish with a dose of starsan before air drying and storing. No dramas since.

Even his back-drop is better. I had a crusty shed roller door. This guy plays hard ball...

Nice looking rig there husky, puts the yabbie cooker to shame. Hope it works out for you, looks pretty sweet to me. :)

Some very valid points there PistolPatch. Cheers for your input :) No discouragement taken, and I certainly don't claim to be anything other than a novice in the AG field. Merely sharing my experiences with fellow brewers, which is what I love about this forum. It's great you get over 80%...

As promised, pics of the simple stainless basket setup. As I said earlier, this is actually a yabbie/cray cooker my old man and his mate made. It is not designed for brewing, I'm just making do until cray season eventually opens here in SA (thank you state government!) or I finish my...

Yeah that would be the ideal I reckon, no bag at all. I find its actually easier to lift the bag out with the basket than without it. It weighs bugger all and the handle sits up so it doesn't get hot. But dropping the bag into a basket post-mash would work too I reckon.

No pics right now Mark^*******, but I'll take some on the weekend and throw them up.

Liberating it from the kitchen when SWMBO isn't looking this the tricky part... ;)

For BIAB, I use a stainless mesh basket (I steal my old man's yabbie cooker over winter) which drops into my 40 litre mash tun/boil pot. I just put the brew bag inside the mesh basket and mash as usual. Come mash end time, I lift the whole basket out by the handle, put an oven rack over the boil...

FWIW Siborg, I had a dodgy beer line disconnect on my system when I set it up. For the life of me I couldn't figure where the foam was coming from, I was blaming everything else but the disconnect. Might be worth a look if you're still stumped.