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Thanks Dunc, yeah I need to get one of those trub trappers. I'm finding the pump goes fine until I've cooled down to about 40 and then it starts to clog. Good point on the t piece. I have some lying around. That fermenter actually has a 15psi so my plan was to just use the blow off until...

Today's efforts. Double batch of pale ale split between verdant and s04, and a single batch of black ipa. First time doing two beers in one day. Just finished now, but I didn't start until 10am after dropping kids to daycare. Also 2nd batch got a 2.5h mash while I did dinner/bath/bed with the...

Would love a controller, count me in! I recently bought a quick read thermometer and it works great.

I'm stocked up with enough ingredients to probably last me a year. But I'm scared of what happens when I run out of CO2 haha.

I've only diluted post fermentation once, but it was the fastest oxidising beer I've made by a factor of about x10. Will not be doing again.

This was my thinking too. In my old BIAB setup I removed the false bottom when I pulled the grain bag for this reason. When moving to the guten, I started reading posts in the guten/brewzilla threads about how well the false bottom works for removing the trub, and no reported issues, so I...

Dave's homebrew in North Sydney and 41 Pints in North Rocks are my go to places. Both have good prices and great customer service (particularly dave's).

BSDA = Belgian strong dark ale. OG was ~1.08 and was an extended boil at full power. That was the first time I'd seen the issue, it was quite black. Previously just some light brown sludge as you say. With my previous BIAB setup I had some scorching issues early on, but solved it by using one...

That's the bottom of mine after the last brew. The BSDA was far worse.

I tried lid on at a lower wattage but wasn't getting a high enough boil off rate and wasn't going to hit my target OG. Would be fine if I'd planned for the lower boil off rate, but not changing halfway through the brew. I might try to just boil some water this way for a few hours to measure what...

Brewed an IPA on the weekend, had a few issues again. A lot crud stuck to the bottom of the kettle again, looked like it was just starting to scorch. For this brew I'd tried turning it down so I didn't go above 2400W for the boil. I think that grain particles that make it out of the malt pipe...

Just take apart the 3 piece airlock and put a length of 13mm hose over it.

Will the poppets and springs for the new disconnects be interchangeable with std ones? Just thinking about managing another set of spares.

My prize pack arrived today. Thanks again to the organisers and sponsors! Was an awesome haul of stuff. And extremely well timed. I ordered ingredients for a stout last week and afterwards found out they were short 1kg of flaked barley. Opened up my box today and there's 1kg of flaked barley in...

I used a couple of stir bars on the inside when I did this. Worked well, but it was a pain to get the hopsock back out through the narrow lid of my Chubby fermenter.

Sooo, hard seltzers?

Count me in! Currently cycling my heat belt accross 3 fermenters, definitely need some extra temp control!

Also I noticed that your sodastream style cylinders now say they can be used for nitrogen. Are you aware of anywhere in Sydney that will refill these with nitrogen?

will it use the same regulator?

Thanks for the write up Duncan. Are you sure on those gravity readings? Seems a bit weird to get the second runnings almost as high as the first. Only thing I can think of is that there were pockets of the mash that weren't flowing, so your squeeze got that very high G wort out. Do you stir...