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There are 2 types of scuba tank adaptors, DIN and Yoke, most Australian are yoke, where the regulator is pushed onto the tank by a clamp. The DIN style is a screw thread, I'm not sure what size but you might be able to fit something to it. However chances are you have a yoke tank. You can...

You will be able to fill it at a dive store, only with air (22% O2). However it needs to be hydro tested annualy and you will need a rec diving license. They will check these things. I think the threads on an pure O2 tanks are different. Diving regs are expensive and they will deliver too much...

3 m of copper immersion chiller should do the trick pretty quickly. the 100-50 drop happens very quickly. Also above 50C with the chiller set in the top layer of the wort you will get reverse convection occuring so you don't need any kind of whirpooling device.

I use one, they work excellently. See this thread on how to run it with a drill. http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=54710

Have you considered using willow cubes to ferment in? few fridges wont fit 2 of this in them. Also with my fridge freezer I use the freezer for lagering, it stays around 1-2 C when the main fridge is at 18-20. Just have to transfer the beer into 2 10l jerry cans and I can ferment several ales...

I dunno, I think you could fit a baby seal quite comfortably in a keggle. Just have to club it a bit to soften it up.

Option 4 is keep the container on its side for the remainder of the lagering and then syphon out the bung hole. I don't think option 2 is paticularly drastic. I would have a sanitised tap ready to go on and then just a quick 1 2 swapsy.

Another happy story :) they are filthy but after a good scrub they look good as new. They have a date stamped on them of 1997 and 1996 so a little old but I can't see that as a major problem. I didn't get a truck though :(

I can see a lot of k&k brewers resorting to making mead.

I think this might be a better solution than driving it with a bolt. The socket holds very snuggly. I just need to find a socket attachment for the drill, shouldn't be hard to find and this will probably work very well without stripping threads, getting bolts stuck etc.

Sorry I meant socket.

No worries, keep posting here and reading and you will get a lot of handy hints on improving your beer.

Could definately be oxygen problems then, I'm guessing you also ran the brew through a hose to the fermenter and didn't splash the wort at all. Next time when the wort is in the fermenter, rest the fermenter on an edge and shake it for a good 5 mins. What this will do is oxygenate the wort...

Easy question, Lactose is unfermentable, I'm guessing you added it to add sweetness to the brew. If you use it the final gravity will rise. Also LME will leave quite a lot of sugar unfermented compared to brew enhancers with dextrine. 1.022 is not an unreasonable final gravity for your recipe...

Another thing which hasent been mentioned is oxygen. Did you boil the whole wort? This will remover all oxygen from the wort. Did you make any attempt to add air to the cooled wort? Yeast will not reproduce without oxygen, they will only ferment. So if the brew had no desolved oxygen the yeast...

I just had a look at my Victoria mill. A 17mm sprocket fits over the crank shaft really well. I would be worried running the mill off the thread, as this thread is only designed to hold the pin in place, and not have any grinding tourque on it. You might end up stripping the thread and ruining...

I have a similar mill, I tried to electrify it with a drill chucked straight onto a headless bolt. The drill I bought for the job didn't have the torque to turn it and I gave up on the project as I didn't wanna fork out on another drill. I quite enjoy the milling bit anyway, and I don't have...

Isn't that what the wife's for? :D

You think you're an electrician because you wired your temperature controller and it works. You have a very large collection of useless plastic cylenders that used to contain hydrometers.

Yeah its always akward trying to get a straight line between your head, the bottle and a light source without tipping the bottle. Even weirder when you try to use your mobile phone as a light.