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@mtb - Another fridge!

I don't disagree, I just don't see it as being significant at our scale and our temperatures, and with our temperature monitoring equipment and probe positions.

I'd do it just when the heating/cooling is on, but that's just me. I've always figured the point is to distribute the applied heating/cooling evenly. Once this is done, moving the air around seems pointless, and may increase the energy required to maintain the temperature by more efficiently...

Confirming that the bearing number is 626-Z: http://www.skf.com/group/products/bearings-units-housings/ball-bearings/deep-groove-ball-bearings/deep-groove-ball-bearings/index.html?designation=626-Z On bearing sits flush on the end of the shaft (sits at the back of the pump), and the other...

And for discussions sake, my notes for my julebryg: Double batch (approx 10 gallons) Grain 6kg pilsner 2kg munich 2kg wheat 1.4kg caramunich 2 handfuls choc wheat Hops: 15 IBU magnum at 60 mins, then 50g saaz at 30 mins and 50g saaz at 10 mins. IBU ~ 25. Spices: 30 mins - 2 star anise 5...

11 zombie dust Interesting beer. Nice balance between hops and malt. Massive orange / citrus aroma and flavour that you can smell across the room. Maybe not grapefruit as suggested earlier, but blood orange? Even like an essential oil or liqueur orange aroma/flavour? Sort of sickly sweet, and...

Since the earlier posts, ivd been using a two tier stand and getting away with just the one pump. But last brew it starting seizing as well, so here we are again. Managed to get a close look at the bearings, the brand is C&U, and the number is 626Z (or Z929). Now I have both pumps apart, it...

Because I'm as bored AF at work, I've taken all the reviews and recipes provided thus far and sorted them out in the spreadsheet. Additional tabs at the bottom. So now all reviews by a person are collated down the columns, and all reviews of a beer are collated across the rows. SPREADSHEETS!

I think the plastic is fine if you keep it clean. The main issue with the plastic heads I think is that once you've screwed a stainless fitting to it (cam lock or disconnect), you can't really ever remove it. But if you don't remove it, then you'll be fine.

No issues. Just check what they're made of, but I just got the basic ones from Coles and they were Nylon and Elastene. I was worried about the die, so boiled some first to test, and no issues there at all. So now I just use star san to sanitise before filling. As for how much, how long is a...

I pull apart each time to wash and dry. Just need to be careful with the screws not to over tighten as they'll strip pretty easily. The voile is a good idea for cockroaches, I need to do that on my kettle valve. I might have added a cockroach to my last Rye IPA.

nylon stockings from the supermarket. Cut off the require length of leg, tie a knot it one end, fill them up, tie another knot. You can sanitise first with star san or by boiling. I'd recommend you throw a sanitised stainless object in there as well to weigh them down and keep them submerged...

Isn't Guiness famous for very fast ferments? That might be more of a commercial / throughput consideration rather than quality. But hey, if your gravity has changed and it doesn't taste infected, then the yeast did its thing. Happy days.

Yeah, we didn't notice it until our fronts fell off afterwards, which is why we rushed through Zorco's beer without taking any notes.

Shared these with the missus and a friend: 3 madpierre red rye saison Did gush, but with forewarning we poured into a jug first. Quite nice, some nice malt sweetness balanced with some good saison character. I was expecting this to be bad due to the gushing but it’s quite clean. A very good...

I've added a tab to the spreadsheet so everyone can give their 3/2/1 points for their top 3 beers. Find your name across the top, then fill in your points against the relevant beers in the orange section.

Don't have my notes in front of me but from memory I mashed fairly high intentionally to get some residual sweetness to it. Glad it's holding up in the heat, I tried some on xmas day but had bumped the keg and this tends to resuspend all the spice mud at the bottom of the keg, making it quite...

I'm glad I saw this advice first, we went straight into a jug and it was then OK. It fairly jumped out of the bottle. I agree with what you say, it tasted very clean without any hint of infection issues, so just a simple case of too much sugar or ferment not quite done?

So to be clear, number 1 (blueberry hefe) is your favourite, and you're giving it 3 points. Is that right?

I'd better start the spreadsheet. Are your numbers the points given, or the places (ie 3rd place gets 1 point and 1st gets 3 points)?