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The yeast itself does a pretty good job of agitating the fermenting beer, I doubt there's a significant temp gradient in the beer during active fermentation, and the flow across the wall of the fermenter should be adequate. Out of curiosity is this with the fan on or off? I know the last...

Put a carb cap on a coke bottle and fill it with CO2. Put your blow-tie on. Submerge the lot in a bucket of water and look where the bubbles are coming out. Once you know where it's leaking from it will be easier to fix. If there are no bubbles when you do this, check the fermenter itself...

Given jgriffen's comments, maybe its also worth switching the CO2 lines and seeing if the infection moves. Maybe some beer made it up into the gas line/disconnect where your cleaning process isn't reaching.

Has anyone here had good results from their fresh hops? Every brew I used mine in was terrible. I don't think I've got the timing right for picking them. I'm not all that fussed though, I have them going up a trellis which shades the veggie patch and lawn from the West in summer, so it's a...

Have you got a way to measure the beer temp as opposed to the air temp? Preferably on a second system not connected to RAPT. Then you can check to see what the actual swing in the beer is. In terms of efficiency, can you turn off the heating and run it as cooling only? If so I'd be doing this...

yeah my cascade is about 2m tall and violently strangling everything in sight haha.

I thought you got the best control when you had both a beer temp and chamber temp reading? Like the brewpi does it. So from that perspective it does make sense to have the chamber probe where it is, but I agree, its pretty poor not including the beer probe.

Apparently the shape of the base is going to be different to make it drain better, not something you'll be able to upgrade your old system with.

That whole thing was demolished a week and a half ago. The slab it was on sinking and cracking. There will be a similar one going back in, but the current plan is to put a sink in where the Guten is in that image, Currently there's no water supply near there so I walk back and forth with jugs of...

Haha, no it was all undercover. I'll try to dig out a pic

I had removed a built in BBQ in my back yard and put the guten there, so probably 40-50cm off the ground. I felt this was a good working height. Backyard is currently being re-done though, so no brewing for me at the moment.

I do it all the time with beers I want clean (ie no yeast character) with no problem. I wouldnt do it with something where the yeast character is important for the style such as a hefeweizen. I'm not sure what proportion of the yeast cake you would need. Maybe plug the 1st batch into a yeast...

Instructions are here, it says to use their own no-rinse sanitiser, which I cant find the active ingredient of. EDIT: FAQ says its hydrogen peroxide.

Homegrown 12VDC work is fine. Are these incandescent or LED? If they're globes, can you see what wattages they are? Just grab a 12V power pack with appropriate wattage (or overkill), and solder an inline socket on the cut wires on the font...

Is the Rapt pill going to work with Brewfather?

I either dry hop loose early and flush the headspace, or late using the bag and magnet technique. Yes crash with the trub still there. I mostly keg, but bottle probably 1 batch per year of something I want to age. I used to transfer to secondary when I started brewing as that's what everyone at...

Why would you transfer to a second chubby/all rounder? I've never done this. There are less steps than dumping the trub, not more. Also never had a post blocked by hops. Once you cold crash its all on the bottom anyway.

If you're changing lids after fermentation then you aren't really getting an O2 free process though

I have 1 all rounder and 2 chubbies. If I was just buying a single one I would get an all rounder. It is far quicker to clean as you can get your hand in there. Also it's way thicker and doesn't buckle all the time like the chubbies do. Also with the chubbies. But as mentioned by Sid, the...