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I also had room for my wife and 8 kids.

Good work mate! I've picked mine up, 50 kgs of grain carried on my scooter! Lucky I lived around the corner.

Good point, especially since I'll be wiring in my temperature controller. I'll grab a surge protector to go between the power point and the fridge.

It won't make a difference to gas use. Its the temperature at which the CO2 is dissolved into the beer which would make a difference to CO2 use, not the temperature it is stored. Inside or outside wont make a difference, except to how much you're fridge can store. One bonus of keeping it in the...

Don't forget strapping it on the back of my scooter and riding 60kms home with it! I'll try the power point with the fire door. I'm not going to take the power from the fire door, just put a double adaptor on there so both can get power. If someone complains I'll go the inside apartment route.

Good idea but no, its not a seperate room, its a partition of the large underground parking lot and light comes in over the top and bottom of the walls. There is a flourecent light near the back of the store room that would be usable, but I think getting caught doing illegal electrical work to...

The other problem I'm going to have to work out is power availability. There's no room in my unit for it but I have a store room downstairs in the garage. Trouble is there's no powerpoint in the store room and I'll have to run a cord out to a strata powerpoint. There is one really close which is...

I only planned to put a small hole in the metal freezer box, I doubt that would ruin it, there is plenty of room between the coils. An added bonus of doing it this way is the alcohol in the airlock would probably be subzero and more harmful to any wild yeast trying to get through it. But like...

Thanks for that, just ordered one for $23. Somebody needs to design a fermenter that fits perfectly over the motor hump of a fridge, then I could probably fit 2 in there :).

Just ordered mine, had to pay $23 though, I'm jelous of all you lucky sods who got it for $17.

I just found it in the back of a uni building. I don't have my fermenter with me now so its hard to say, but I think its 40cm tall. I just measured it and I will probably be able to fit my 20 L bucket fermenter in there, without the airlock.In which case I'll just drill a small hole into the...

Hi, I found this bar fridge (see attachments) and want to turn it into a fermentation fridge. It has an old school metal freezer with coils around it. The freezer makes it too small to fit a fermenter in it. The question I have is can I either bend or remove these coils without wrecking its...

Weyermann Bohemian Pilsner Floor Malted - donburke(3) Weyermann Premium Pilsner - donburke(1) - adryargument(1) Weyermann Pale Wheat - donburke(1) Weyermann Vienna - donburke(1) - adryargument(1) Weyermann Munich I - donburke(1) - adryargument(1) Thomas Fawcett Floor Malted Golden Promise -...

This was doing the rounds in the Sydney Morning Herald's Column8 a couple of months back. I can't remember the outcome of it though

Immersion chillers are great to get your wort down to about 50 but after that they slow right down and use a lot of water. Cold water goes in and comes out mildly warmer. So at first the seem fantastic, even 3m of coil will drop your wort down to 40-50 C in 10-15 mins. But there a real pain for...

Given the lecturing in this thread about temperature control I decided to go out and try to find one of these 100 can coolers this morning. I tried bunnings and anaconda. Also Looking online and can't find anything bigger then 50 can acapacity. Anyone have any ideas where to get one or something...

The other option is to mash high, and create your own unfermentable sugars.

Keep It Simple Stupid. Dave's is awesome, he closes on friday, so try and get there before then. IMO best brew store in Sydney. Start with a fermenter, a thermometer, a large plastic spoon, and a bottle capper (make sure you get a lever one not a hand one). Ask Dave lot's of questions. Don't...

Good luck, don't read too much to start with, there's so much complexity as you read into brewing. Start with a basic kit and kilo brew, buy a basic startup from anywhere. I suggest going to a brew store, you will pay a little more but atleast you get a chance to talk to the brewshop guy. And...

Um if the thermometer was reading 15 C below actual temperature then you would be mashing at 80-85 and reading 65-70, not 50-55. This definately explains the high final gravity.