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If you are tight for space in the fridge you may be better off just using good old fashion 25 L cubes. Due to the shape they take up far less space and fit better in a fridge than round fermenters. Depending on your fridge you may be able fit 3 or 4 x 25L or a combination of x 25L & 15L. For...

Put small bowls of beer (can be dregs from bottles, kegs fermenter etc) near or around your plants. They love beer (I think is actually the yeast they like) and will crawl in and drown. Steep slippery sided bowls or containers will catch the most.

I also use the collapsible bag of co2 taken from the fermenter WEAL. If you recall it was me that first thought of the idea and posted it on here.

I use about 30g to 50g of sugar. They do swell considerably over a few days but you can control it if it goes too far by releasing pressure from the cap or turn the cube with the tap uppermost and releasing co2 from that. They take about 20 psi before they balloon too much. You can use a...

Yep, adding more moisture should do the trick!

Have you had this problem, how did you keep moisture down? I haven’t seen any difference between fridge or freezer.

Freezers are good. A little bit harder to lift the fermenter in and out of a chest freezer though.

Cask ale in a firkin generally lasts about 3-4 days in a pub once exposed to oxygen. I find in a cube it lasts longer, about twice as long. I put this down at least partly to the beer in a cube having a smaller surface area compared to a horizontal firkin. I do usually just crack open the cap...

I wasn’t being serious or concerned about the dangers of the plastic, I was asking about a tap on the cap option? I’ve posted on the KL Q&A thread about how they could be used for no chill and also used to ferment in without the need to transfer the wort to a separate fermenter especially if...

Actually it seems to be only a couple of the carry cases coming from Shenzhen. My eBay items say estimated delivery Tus 22nd Sep- Wed 23rd Sep.

If you click on the ebay links above it will tell you the location of each item. The two I bought say Item location: Regents Park, NSW, Australia. Others say Item location: sz, China. Which I think is shenzhen China just north of Hong Kong.

Just bought another temp controller and thermometer. Don’t really need them but can’t resist a bargain.

Well they could be turned in to granaries like the PET fermenters.:)

@KegLand-com-au I saw your post in another thread regarding Hot Fill Wine/Wort Cask Bladders. These look really interesting especially that they will come clean and sterile. Just a thought though. Would it be possible to get larger, say 30L bladders? If so and you also sold a ridged box or...

I am a big fan of beer engines and also sparklers. But sometimes think I may as well be smashing my head in to a brick wall than explaining yet again that cask/real ale don’t need to be served through either.:confused:

yep thanks, thats what I was trying to say. And possibly causing no lubrication and causing the seizure?

I already have hand pulls (beer engines) you don’t need a hand pull for real ale and certainly not a sparkler so all good there. If they are good for no chill I may try them and even go back to doing that also. At the moment I find it easier to chill wort if it is over about 20 Litres.

Oh well! Still may be perfect for real ale containers though?

This is what it says in the link above. Triple Layer The triple layer construction consists of: Layer 1 - 50micron polyethylene (PE) Layer 2 - 45micron polyethylene (PE) Layer 3 - 15micron nylon Layer 1 gives the bladder the best possible chemical resistance making this bag suitable for a wide...

These sound like they would be perfect for real ale? No need to clean and sanitise first like a cube or polypin. All you would need is a cap with a tap similar to collapsible camping water containers. Would that be possible? What sort of cap do the bladder suppliers usual supply?