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Ah good. Hopefully it's a simple fix. It may just have been that with a small leak, you needed the hydrostatic pressure of a fuller keg to help dispense it. Please keep us posted.

Unless you're trying to pump beer massively uphill, standard serving pressure should be able to empty your keg. Does the dip tube go low enough? Is the keg level?

I've decided to just make my own from some 30 mm OD x 2 mm wall thickness clear acrylic tubing, which approximately matches the size of a 100 mL measuring cylinder. This way, I can just make it a bit taller and use about half as much beer as with a 250 mL cylinder.

Hi, I just got one of these from Brewing America on Amazon, and it's fantastic, but it sits a lot taller, so I can't actually measure FG in my standard 100 mL cylinder. On the plus side, I can still use it to measure OG in this cylinder, as the readings 1.040 onwards are submerged. Can anyone...

Haha, how does that even happen? Does that mean you have unlabelled bags of each of the other three? Barrett Burston Pale seems to be pale aka pilsner, and it's debatable whether people can even blindly taste the difference between pale and pilsner malt. I can certainly tell pale ale (or...

I remember that video. I think that's definitely the simplest way to do low O2 bottling. The only other alternative (for glass bottles) is counter-pressure filling from a carbonated keg – ensuring that all fermentation is finished. Any method that assumes CO2 is a liquid at atmospheric temp and...

Was just wondering why you were purging a bottling bucket/bottles if not doing closed transfers and counter-pressure filling. I've only seen it done with kegging setups. If not, the air will just mix back in with your argon. Better off saving that gaseous gold for TIG welding.

Do you do closed transfers with bottling?

That's why I like having a vacuum sealer. I sealed mine in a tiny pouch of plastic, which lets me soak the pouch in starsan, rather than worry about the magnet/coating reacting. One alternative might be a stir bar on the inside with either another stir bar or a neodynium magnet on the outside...

Have you considered the magnet method? Dry hops go in at the start, suspended in a hop sock with a bagged or vacuum-sealed, sanitised neodymium magnet, with its counterpart on the outside. By the time the hops thaw, fermentation has taken off and the place is soon purged of oxygen. There's then...

Not specifically, but...brb I just very crudely measured the spring constant with my kitchen scales and ruler to be about 1.8 kg/cm. That's for a basic tap compression spring, acting axially. If you put a tension spring onto the handle somewhere, it will gain some amount of leverage, so you...

Hahaha, this is true. However, I think if I decide I want springs back, I'll just use external tension springs between the handle and the face of the keezer. At least they will be out of the beer path.

Just had an amazing discovery – apologies to anyone who already found this obvious, but I think it could have been a bit unique*. So I built a 3-keg keezer in about June 2020 out of a chest freezer + STC1000 + enclosure to make it wife-friendly in the living room. Initially, I feel like I got...

For sure, sometimes it's disappointing when you want to just read some brewing chat and there isn't much new. However, this place is a wealth of knowledge. Search "<thing> site:aussiehomebrewer.com" on google and find the answer to just about anything.

Your best way forward is to learn how to scale any recipe to suit your system. I'd suggest using a trial of Beersmith or Brewfather.app. When scaling a recipe, the following should stay the same: OG, FG, IBU and colour (EBC/SRM). The following scale linearly, i.e. a 5 L batch uses/yields...

Some of the Coopers kit yeasts are blends of 2-3 strains. Given everyone says that kit yeast is the best out there...oh wait :D But seriously, I don’t know the rationale. I have no idea how you even attempt to control the ratio of characteristics or avoid one completely dominating the other(s).

I can't help you with that question, sorry. But I can say that I have wondered if you could do a DMaDH experiment to actually try things blindly. Something like a 100% pale ale malt, mashed and then boiled with some gentle hopping with EKG and Cascade (IBU 25–30 with fairly mild flavour/aroma...

We've known for a long time that no more than 4 std drinks on one occasion and about 10 in total per week (i.e. ~6 beers) is about the safe limit. Of course, the dose makes the poison and everyone makes their own decisions about acceptable risk. Generally, Australians drink wayyyyy too much...

Doesn't seem to. I've used the trick for some quick apple cider and the balloon stayed partially inflated until I bottled. It's similar to the cling wrap method.

To throw another option out there: grab yourself a 3 L apple juice and drink it (not from the bottle!), give the empty bottle a quick shake with starsan, and you have a 3 L fermenter. Mix up your fresh wort kit and do one plain and pull off 2 L for use with 3-4 g/L (= 6-8 g) of hops. An airlock...