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I normally leave mine in the fermenting fridge in a separate bottle of water. It isn't going to measure the exact temp of the wort but is better than measuring air temp and stays fairly stable. I doubt many people could pick a 1-2 degree difference in fermenting temp out of a line up all other...

1. Barls- something with fatz in mind. single hop pale ale with idaho and brett c. 2. Paulyman - Imperial IPA (8%) 3. Fungrel - Oh crap i forgot about the case swap (aged Brett Belgian Blonde) 4. mattfos01 foreign extra stout in the bottles. 5. kelly - english brown ale 6. reman 7. fruit beer...

Joe white is decent brewing malt and at least when you get it is comparatively fresh. European malts would be 3-4 months minimum and probably a lot more from packaging to delivery in Australia. I currently prefer the gladfields malts over anything else due to their freshness and flavour but I...

You can easily start out with a single infusion mash and see how it goes. While decoctions are the traditional way of making pilsners you can get a similar result by adding some melanoiden to your grist. Start simple and then work from there.

How are you measuring the starting volume? I guess if it's a full keg it isn't too hard but measuring partially filled kegs could be a bit tricky. Apologies if this has been answered in a previous post.

The best you can hope for when transferring hot wort to a cube is pasteurization which only takes 15 seconds at 72C and much shorter times at higher temperatures. For sterilization you need dry heat of 170C for one hour. I don't know anyone who would only count on heat to sanitize cubes and...

The big factor in hop flavour and aroma is the exposure to wort of a particular temperature for a particular time which dictates how many bitterness units you get from an addition. This is also not a linear relationship so conversion happens much more quickly at boiling than it does at say...

Where do the flow meters sit in your system? Any issues with foaming from them? It certainly is one of the most annoying things about kegs! When mine go they tend to go in clumps too!

Even without them it isn't a big deal. Once the kegs are chilled there might be a glass that gets chucked but that's about it.

The other things I find impact carbonation levels are the amount of headspace and the temperature so always best to chill before carbonating and if you have a very full keg and are doing a quick carb method such as the Ross method, you will need a bit longer. If you have the kegs available...

I used it in the gladfields red IPA recipe but used different hops based on what I had on hand. Only went into the keg the other day but am happy with the flavour. I've made a few of the recipes from the gladfield site and they have all been good and helpful in learning what percentages and...

Any word on how this is going Michael?

Is the fridge empty or full? I found that mine held temperature better when it had 4 kegs in one side and a decent load of bottles in the other side. It also seems that the arrangement is more like an STC style temp controller than a regular fridge thermostat. I've considered taking mine out...

I reckon a smash is a great first beer to brew. Not familiar with the hops but when I make IPAs I aim for about half the IBUs at 60 minutes and the rest from later additions. I'm guessing your selected hops is high AA% so this approach would work well. If you are chilling split the late hops...

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Are you carbonating by adding sugar? If so surely the yeast will clean up a good chunk of the available O2 anyway. If it's already carbonated it makes sense to keep as much out as possible though, especially for longer storage.

Glad it worked out for you. It's always a bit tricky learning your system but as you say predictability is more important at this scale. Just remember that it will change for higher gravity brews so don't expect the same efficiency.

The. You probably should have stopped listening in 1992 when Denis Leary won with *******! On the beers it is clear that bigger breweries with greater reach are going to get more votes than smaller breweries with less exposure and reach. If it results in people who think of 150 lashes or fat...

I use a scoop to get from the sack or container into the bucket so have never had an issue with over shooting.

I have almost exactly the same scales as SBOB above and it is great, when weighing grain I just sit a bucket on the scales and zero it out for each grain, much easier than doing 1-2kg at a time as I was previosuly!