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Really just wanted to suggest getting a nice pub style jug (pitcher to our US cousins) to do that first pour in. My Dad is 84 and has never drunk his home-brew without one. Terrific detail also from Butisitart. I learned to batch prime this way myself after years of adding individual teaspoons...

Some great posts here on liquid yeast and propagation. Grmblz's and Kadmium's method would each bring cost down considerably. I like to use both dry and liquid. My two best beers so far this year have been a Dr Smurtos Timothy Taylors clone (Wyeast 1469) and a Czech Pils (Fermentis 34/70) Both...

Thanks for that. Many here on the forum in Melbourne affected by the lockdown in various ways. Hopefully all putting some profitable time in to their brewing, like me. Sure you will see your family soon. FWIW, a single vessel is one way to manage the various associated risks of transfers (i.e...

Other options as per your question: I run a standard (but modified with TC valves and parts) 14 gal (50 litre) SS Brewtech Chronical and a 10 gal (38 litre) Brite Tank. I brew double batches (45 litres). My workflow is to ferment and cold crash in the conical, then drop into the Brite to...

One example of a use for unmalted (i.e., raw) wheat is Belgian Wit (white) beer. Hoegaarden Wit is the classic. This style was originally a farmhouse beer. So it's... um , robust. To the point of being agricultural. Use whatever a typical Belgian farmer might have laying around in early summer...

Couldn't agree more. For me, sprinkling 2 packs of Notty on the surface of a 45 litre all-grain batch anywhere up to about 1.054 gets consistently good results. All over red rover in a few days with final gravities that match my mashing regime. This experience matches the advice given by...

Robinsons? I have not yet had the pleasure of making an acquaintance. My stouts are pretty simple. 5% Roast barley, 5% Flaked Torrefied Barley (Crisp, usually) and a good ale malt, sometimes a Maris Otter or more often these days, Gladfield. Hops Fuggles, Pilgrim or Challenger or a mix to 40...

I’ve now used it four or five times. I’ve managed a bit less excitement through strict temp control. By setting my conical to run between 17- 18 degrees and leaving about 10 litres of headspace keeps it pretty much out of the blow-off. (As an aside, when the conical is full but I feel like...

Bump. I’d like the answer on this too.

+1 from me on the Keg-King (driven) 3 roller mill. It’s proven to be the schizzle for me. Had a Corona (plate) flour mill for about a hundred years (wait on, that can’t be right, I’m only 96?). I do @10kgs grain per brew. The corona can’t be killed, just works, produces 80% efficiency, and I...

Charlie Papazians Propentious Stout...with the 5% option. Malt Bill 90 % Maris Otter 5% Roast barley 5% Flaked barley and the extra 5%: Buy a six pack of 6% Guiness Extra. Take 2 stubbies out. Pour these into a clean ice-cream container the day before brew day. Add a handful and a half of Ale...

That's a great improvement. Will a retrofit kit for earlier model G20s be possible/available?

I had it running between 18-19 degrees. After two days the gravity has dropped to 1.020. I say again, Fark!!

I have my favourites. I might even be a bit complacent. Good excuse to break out and do something different. I used Lallemand Nottingham for the first time in a 1.047 Irish stout I put down yesterday. Fark!! is all I can say. I had heard it was aggressive, but seeing is believing...

And this, my friends, is what all the well dressed plastic fermenters are wearing this winter.

Yeast likes to be pitched into well oxygenated wort. One way to help achieve this is by splashing your wort in vigorously. Attach a 1/2” TC barb to the lid and pump it up via that. If using the FTSS flat lid, the airlock hole is perfectly sized to hold the end of a 1/2” silicon tube securely...

The aquarium chiller's lowest set point is 3 degrees C. In practice, it chills the esky water down to 2.7. It is a 1/4 hp unit, massively overrated for that piddly little esky. The chronical is loaded with a 45 litre batch. Coldest the system will take that down to is about 6 degrees, depending...

Aquarium chiller...

Years ago ago I was really into Witbier. The recipe I came up with used 45% raw wheat (with 50% pale malted barley and 5% rolled oats). The wheat I sourced was cheap-*** red wheat from the local pet feed supplier, about a dollar a kilo. My system produces @ 50 litres of finished beer. It's...

Will have to bail - still brewing, but working overseas. Bummer. Good luck NFH!