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Sounds fine. If you're going to add hot water anyway, you could top it up to 17.X L pre-boil so that you end up with 15 L neat. (Not sure what your boil-off rate is, but I get 2.3 L/hour in the 19 L BigW pot.)

Are Duotights just a Chinese knockoff of John Guest fittings?

I'm not sure there's a bullet-proof way to check. Slow leaks won't bubble Starsan or detergent. While you can dunk disconnects and manifolds in water, you can't dunk them when they are connected to kegs, which is when it really matters. So that brings us to the static test, where you...

Coopers green pale ale is widely cloned and easy to find a recipe for. It's a bit bland for my taste, but when I find it at a bar as the only ale option (with the rest as macro lagers), I do prefer it to water. What I'd recommend trying perhaps, is the Scottish Export from Brewing Classic...

Thanks guys. I’ll check out the video. Forgot about carb caps. I have one + a tiny coke bottle that might do the trick.

I'm about to go down the pressure fermenting + closed transfer route after having a few beers that lost hop brightness, and one that turned to stale cardboard in 1 week! I had already stopped cold crashing in the primary to avoid O2 ingress, and changed to keg hopping instead of fermenter dry...

For sure, I get that there can be variations in water profile (though minerality and RA matter, as opposed to water pH). Was just curious if they’ve ever been a significant enough swing that it throws your mash pH out.

Do you find it’s particularly necessary to test pH often? I bought one due to having homebrewer’s reckless spending syndrome, and I’ve verified the pH is on target (close to beersmith’s calculation) for all my beer styles. Now it just sits in the cupboard. Didn’t test latest brew, but...

Ah, good catch! I've always done BIAB with a high water:grist ratio, so it's probably been negligible. Good to keep in mind for thicker mashes.

Those hops are ridiculously overpriced, especially for how room-temperature they are. Just get some 50 gram packs from Triple J homebrew on eBay if you're after a small quantity (4x cheaper too, and fresh).

As MHB implied, your strike temp is too low. The overall temp of your grains+water is simply a weighted average of the two: (mass_water*temp_water + mass_grain*temp_grain)/mass_total So a strike temp of 75°C in your case is more appropriate to get the right mash temp, if we assume your grains...

Damn, that's harsh, ha. Congrats on the promotion. I think it's good that you're encouraging sponsors like KK to stick around. Better to have them posting on the forums with their affiliations and given members a place to voice concerns, than have shill members (which can still happen, granted)...

^ It's only a Corona clone if it's been pissed in as well.

Dry yeast is great. US-05 works for pretty much anything that you want clean. S-04 works well for English styles, and T-58 works well for Belgians. If you're after more nuanced characteristics, liquid is a must. There's also no great dry yeast for German styles. Either way, if you overbuild a...

Wonder if they got a dodgy web developer and are in way over their heads, or if someone at the company is doing some seriously shady **** directly...

Aus post is a weird one. I used to live in a rural/regional town, and I never had any issues. Got packages from Sydney in 2 days (express overnight). Now I'm in a metro centre and Auspost takes 5-10 days for regular, or 3-4 for express, despite being in their "overnight delivery network". They...

Direct Freight are an absolutely ******* company. They damage parcels, run late, drive past without even trying to deliver (and then charge you redelivery fees unless you want to drive hours away to their nearest depot). In fairness to Kegland, they chase them up for you. Best thing would be to...

Yeah I did. Just realised it's the other way around to what I said in my post. Got black Ultrataps from you guys. I see what you're saying now...