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As mofox suggested, I would use your 19L pot to hold your sparge water. So, use kettle to prepare mash water, underlet this to your mash tun. While mashing, refill your kettle with the volume of sparge water you need and heat to temperature. Transfer this to your 19L and then you can sparge...

As Wiggman says, you're better of "trim chilling" with the ice water, otherwise you'll get halfway to where you want to get before your ice warms up. This is ESPECIALLY true for a immersion chiller which are very inefficient by industry standards. So run tap water through it until it cools to...

To be fair on wynnum, he didn't know you were a cellarman. I don't feel he's being high and mighty - it came across to me as trying to be helpful. But yes, looking at some of the older pubs' cellars makes it clear as to how painful it would be to move kegs about! As you say the older pubs in...

I just crash it without a second transfer. If I had a conical FV I'd drain off the yeast sediment and then crash it. But I don't, so I have to live without such luxuries. I haven't noticed any impact on the beer and it still becomes crystal clear. Commercially they crop off the yeast a couple...

Yeah it looks like they've removed the compressor and added a heater. So it's a hot box. lol

What's the capacity of the fermenter? Would you consider freighting to Sydney?

Cornelius kegs are actually made for the post-mix soft drink market. Ie the machines in maccas. The corny kegs hold the syrup and this is blended with carbed water. Corny kegs have lots of room for improvement if one was to optimise them for beer and pub use. The massive opening on top - while...

Oats if anything should ADD to the head because of their protein that they bring to the table. How did you cook/use the oats?

Just a different strain of barley; one that allegedly has existed for thousands of years. I personally doubt it would add anything of value to a beer; the subtle differences are probably better for whiskey. In fact if it is an old strain, then the protein/nitrogen levels are likely to be very...

I can also vouch for the warm pitch method. I prefer to pitch the yeast straight after chilling rather than muck around waiting. If your fridge is grunty enough it'll pull down the temperature in time for the ramp up of fermentation. White Labs actually recommend "warm pitching". 20 degrees C or...

Yeah I prefer to reignite old threads rather than raise the ire of mods and start new threads on old topics :P I plan to make a kettle stand out of welded SHS steel, and have a shelf under this for the burner to sit on. Nothing terribly fancy as it's going to get rusty as hell once the flames...

Unfortunately these aren't available/suitable for low pressure natural gas. In fact the very reason why they have greater turn down ratio (finer control) is because the high pressure allows mixing of air before the jet. The mongolians mix air post-jet. The mongolian burner in NG was the best...

Teflon/PTFE will not melt... it's used on non-stick cookwear! It's designed for exactly this purpose. Tapered threads are not designed to seal but rather to tighten. The PTFE tape does the sealing. I built my new 23 jet natural gas mongolian burner set up yesterday. It plugs straight into my...

The problem with pressure relief valves is that they're designed to open up to full bore suddenly. If you use these for spunding, then you're likely to release more CO2 than necessary and the pressure will drop more than you want. The industrial equivalent would be something akin to a back...

Yes I am aware of how corporations work. I've been chewed up and spat out by the Machine more times that I care to remember. I personally don't care about "these two"; I care about how the company that they run (which is what it's become) behaves. The fact that Brewdog sells itself as "punk" ie...

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I would not use a 200L drum, stainless or otherwise, as a boiler. The steel is far too thin and I can bet it'll warp. The kettle won't be the most expensive part of the operation - wait until you start looking at stainless valves, pipework and the gas main upgrade. I'll keep my eyes out for...

I don't think the point is whether the lawyer was directly instructed or not, but rather that Brewdog are massive, dishonest hypocrites who would have evidently agreed to such predatory legalism.

Boiler house fire by the looks.

Caustic is like the hot wort that we're making - if you come into contact with it you'll have a bad time. Keep some sensible precautions with your procedure and be sensible with some protective equipment (glasses and long sleeves, be aware of how you will be able to flush your eyes etc) just...