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Your plans in splitting the batches by yeast sounds good to me. Although personally, I’m more into yeast than hops… What types of beers are the kits? (You might get some good suggestions for different yeasts to try…

Thanks CMS and Grmblz, will go down the Ozito path (much better warranty!)

Thanks Grmblz, it does look better, but the problem is it has a collet instead of a chuck. I’m not sure how to couple it to the mill shaft?

While milling is topical… I’ve decided to invest in a mill drill, but the staple Ozito spade handle drill seems to be unavailable these days. Any standout alternatives? I’m wondering about this from Aldi and am interested in people’s thoughts: 20V Drill with Brushless Motor - ALDI Australia

Would be really keen to see these with pre-drilled holes 4 Inch Tri-Clover Pressure Pack with Floating Dip Tube for BrewBuilt Unitank Fermenters I can’t use without temp twister, but $105 is too much for me to spend and then try to drill holes myself. Edit: To answer your question, would have...

Thanks @clickeral, will be doing that myself shortly so good to have some contingency plans

Clickeral, is that the KL 4” cap with gas and liquid posts, or the airlock one?

Hey @KegLand-com-au, those boil extenders for the brewzillas look good. Are the seals water-tight? I.e. could I use one on a 35l bz for a 40l boil?

Che11ky, have sent you a private message

As with most things with brewing, simple questions can have complicated answers. I’m terms of your starting gravity, it’s pretty much a 1:1 swap between sugar and extract. Final gravity is a different story. Sugar is 100% fermentable whereas malt extract isn’t. How fermentable it is mostly...

yes please, the fermenter is in the garage and I’m lazy… the wifi version would be awesome!

Like Yankinoz said, if you are faced with a choice between temp control (even with with a cheap fermenter) or pressure fermenting (with a good fermenter), I’d choose temp control every time. Some styles could be okay without accurate temp control—there are ways to moderate temp fluctuations...

You seem to be assuming there is science behind any of this. Pressure fermenting is a newish trend, with no empirical data to back it up (at least that I’m aware of). I haven’t even seen any reliable studies with sensory panels to validate the theory that you can brew a ‘proper’ lager under...

It sounds like a bacterial infection, which isn’t going too sour due to lack of O2. In addition to cleaning and sanitising the hell out of everything, you can try collecting samples at each point to identify where the problem is happening. Take samples in VERY sanitary jars, then keep...

I’ve done a couple of 99% Munich 2 dunkels (1% Carafa 3). Comes out beautifully, but you could not call a beer with anywhere near that much Munich a pale ale!!!

Mark, any recommendations for how to achieve this when the starter volume is large compared to the wort volume? E.g. planning a high gravity lager with a 3l starter and a 16.5l batch size

You might be able to rig up something like this with tubing/beer line you have lying around: CO2 Harvester Kit. NorCal Brewing Solutions I have done something similar in the past with the kegland carb caps and soft drink bottles. A cheap solution would be to use those bottle caps with holes for...

With yours having a higher OG, makes sense to use a higher proportion of pilsner and have a lower mash temp. The hochkurz mash schedule always does well for me in getting a dry beer. As I’m sure you know, make sure you pitch a huge amount of yeast. The recommendation is 2mil cells/ml/degree...

Hey mate, that all looks pretty good to me. I have my first coming up too, and mine looks pretty similar. Differences are that I will do a 40/40/20 malt bill (20% pils), and a 70c mash with a single decoction. I’m basing my mash schedule on the numbers for Celebrator, which has a 73 OG and 22...

Hi Philred, yes, I use a digiboil. From memory the markings are pretty much accurate. My preferred way of checking is to measure the height and radius the calculate. How do you check? You need to keep in mind that what you’re using to calibrate may not be all that accurate either. The point I...