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Hi opercularia I am not at home atm, should be back in a few days and will look at the problem. Hangover68 the spreadsheet cannot be used in openoffice as the macros will not run. cheers Ian

Welcome to the forum Clevohead, good to see another Tasmanian on the forum. There are plenty of knowledgable people on here who I am sure will help you. cheers Ian

It does not matter, both are correct. When the temp is low and heat is required the relay between 5 and 6 closes and completes the circuit. Similarly with 7 and 8 when cooling is required again the relay closes and completes the circuit.

Welcome to the forum, good to see another Tasmanian. You might check out the Hobart Brewers, meetings are generally held at 8pm the third Wednesday of each month at the New Sydney Hotel in the cathedral room or you can check them out on Facebook. Cheers Ian

Good to see there will be another brewer in the NW. I now buy my base malt in Launceston as we have not had a bulk buy in a number of years. I get some of my specialities there also otherwise use Craftbrewer. Hops I buy in kilo lots from a mainland supplier (who does not sell to individuals).

Your water losses come from three main areas. Water absorbed by the grain, water lost during the boil and water lost due to trub etc(what you leave in the pot). The grain will absorb about 0.6 litres per kilo of grain depending how hard you squeeze the bag. Boil off is normally 10 -15% of volume...

25 batches producing 22 litres so 550 litres (2016 680 litres) so following doctor's advice and cutting down the amount of beer I drink.:rolleyes:

Welcome to the forum John, good to see another Tasmanian on here.

Hi Taswoods Looks as though you have already taken the first step, going from bottles to kegs which reduces the alcohol content when using CO2 for carbonation. Given you have been brewing for 3 years you should have the processes under control. As other have said ditch the dextrose, does...

Right I am with you now. Yours appear quite a bit darker than the ones I have which are a light-mid blue. Anyway to change the colours of the spin bars you need select a spin bar then go into the Developer (you may need to add this), then select Design Mode, a list of properties for the spin bar...

Hi Buzzliteyear THe colour is determined from the ingredients, given the ingredients you listed you will finish with a pale beer, low EBC. You could make it darker by adding say some brown sugar or dark malt. Alternatively you could steep some of the grains listed on the GRAINS worksheet...

Hi Buzzliteyear welcome to the forum. It could be a simple matter of all components not disolved or mixed properly or your volume is not measured accurately. I would not worry about it off one brew, do a few more and if the problem still exists then investigate. There is a set amount of sugars...

Welcome, good to see another Tasmanian on here, I from the NW in Wynyard. I BIAB and think it is the easiest way to get into AG.

Hi. I have a similar water analysis here. Basically brew ESB's and Pale Ales. I BIAB and use 5g CaCl2, 4g CaSO4 and 3g MgSO4 per 23 litre batch. Download a copy of the EZ Water Calculator spreadsheet to help with the salt additions. Agree with manticle any soapiness is likely to be another cause.

Yes with a smaller volume you get less IBU's. The HCF was put in because a fair percentage of K & E brewers boil small volumes, it is a different calculation from Tinseth and was included to try and give these brewers a better estimation of their IBU's. What we recommend is you use a boiling...

When not using the HCF the Spreadsheet uses the Tinseth caculation for IBU's which is the standard way of calculating bitterness. Suggest you look into it further to find why the differences occur.

Are you using the HCF in which case they will be quite different. If not then should be similar.

I use one of these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/RHB-18ATC-refractometer-0-18-for-beverage-Brix-cutting-grinding-fluids-testing-/182275684178?_trksid=p2385738.m2548.l4275 as I do not brew strong beers. Much easier to read than the 32Brix model. Also use a calculation for fermented samples plus...

Welcome, good to see another Tasmanian joining AHB. manticle has the knowledge if you need to pick someone's brain.

The latest version I unloaded is 4.1 which can be found in the first post of this thread. I think someone else may have uploaded 4.2 which from memory (not good) may have contained extra Kits/BE/hops. cheers Ian