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Sounds like mashing temp to me. Have a read through this. http://www.howtobrew.com/section3/chapter14.html

Tannins are in grain. I don't know what skeeter pee is but if it involves mashing grains you could try doing the sparge at around 90-95 degrees. This should extract some tannins.

Major problem here is that a racking cane is deisgned to deliver beer to the bottom of the bottle to avoid oxidation, if you're filling from the top of the bottle with a tap your creating a lot of splash. I've always bottled with a silicone hose to racking cane from fermenter in a high location...

I got a reply from auscrown on monday at 10AM after emailing them at 4PM on Friday. Pretty good turn around if you ask me. It was less than a month ago and from ann sewell

With this can we split up specialty grains into smaller lots or is it just 25 kg bags?

I doubt it would make much difference, maybe a tiny bit. Did you give it a taste? You should be able to notice any bad astringency from tannin extraction even before fermentation.

This is not something I would do. I was just commenting on the thread that adding bitterness post fermentation as suggested probably wouldn't work because you would have to add a lot of liquid to get any difference in IBU. But wasn't really sure if I was correct in my reasoning. Probably should...

So if you wanted to up the IBU's by 10 then you would need to put 2 L of hoppy water into a 20l batch. Not a good trade off I don't think.

I'm wondering if a small ammount of liquid can absorb enough bitter. I'm not sure how much bitterness water will hold before it stops absorbing anymore. I don't know what the hops saturation of water is. This is just a thought. You will probably be alright. But does anyone know if this wil be an...

You never know with these things. If it has gone viral, there are going to be a lot of people trying to use the voucher. They may decide not to lose face with customers and honour them, or give you 5% off or something. I'd be pretty peeved if I turned up took a whole lot of liquor to the counter...

Unless you go the fire extinguisher route the co2 is going to blow your budget. Hard to find anything a decent size under $200. I think I just spent about $250 on my 2.6l one.

I've got one of these, anyone figured out a way to drive it with a powerdrill?

The problem is that last 10 degrees. It would have taken another 45 mins to drop. I gave up on it. I think I'll turn it into a counter chiller using a bucket. It shouldn't be too difficult and a lot more efficient. That's the next project.

Alright it took about 45 mins to get down to 35. The problem was at low temperatures the convection stopped. So it got down to about 55 in 15 mins or so but the last 20 degrees took ages. So in the end not that great. It looked fairly promising at the beginning it was rolling around like a light...

Alright its in to chill right now, there is certainly convection occurring, it has cooled down quite quickly so far, but I would have expected that anyway for the first 50 degrees even with such a short coil. However the heat exchange doesn't feel that great, the water is coming out fairly...

Captain obvious strikes again

Oh does anyone have any idea of what I should use for flotation devices that won't melt in the boiling wort? Maybe a couple of capped stubbies?

Yep, I bent the ends up for in and out, so there will be a little sticking out. No matter what happens I figure it will work a little bit. 3m of copper coil still has a fair bit of surface area even if there is no convection.

Alright, my convection chillers ready to role for a batch of pumpkin ale tomorrow. Also excited to try a new four ring burner and testing out the BIAB method, so a lot of exciting new for tomorrow. Anyway the convection chiller is 3 m of annealed copper in a spiral. I figure that a rolling...

Without 1kg table sugar your looking at SG of 1.041 final 1.011 ABV 3.9%. A little low I believe. But if you do that recipe with 20 L and no table sugar you are looking at 1.047-1.013 and ABV of 4.4%. If you have an iPhone (I'm not sure if its on other smart phones) download Brew Pal. Very...