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I've got 40 odd Coopers long necks if you want them. PM me if you're interested

That's some rust going on there! My first thought wasn't real positive but then I had a closer look and, despite the apparently plain brown cylinder, I think (hope) there's a working keg in there. You've got no choice but to give it a go but I think persistence is going to be the order of the...

Grab some oxalic acid based cleaner and use a ScotchBrite (the one for stainless) and give it a good scrub. It will remove the rust (as well as the oxide layer on the stainless so let it repassivate first). If there are any of the dreaded stickers, get rid of those first so that the oxalic acid...

That's an epic brew & brew day. I was looking at doing the DFH 60 minute IPA but haven't yet. Having read this though, I'll be going ahead next week with the 60min. I'm not crazy enough to do the 120min version .... yet Cheers Simon

There are a couple of things you need to consider when scaling your wort volume up. You need to consider boil off rate which will of course vary with a different kettle size and boil rate, and any losses due to the kettle. Your kettle loss can be estimated by simply putting water in the bottom...

100% you need a blow off of some description. A couple of contributing brewers and I made the same mistake once in our 200L batch and had massive blow off issues despite a bit of head space. After about the third blow off we quickly replaced with a Macgyver'd assembly and no further probs. Not...

When I want some hoppy beers and have nothing in the pipeline, I do a recipe out of Zymurgy from a year or two ago called "Pliny the Toddler" which is awesome when I want a face full of hops but still keep the beer balanced. That recipe was from an article doing exactly that: grain to glass in 7...