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Yeah the whole cube is way out of shape, the filler isn't flat anymore and another split was starting on the long edge to the left of this one. I only have one other with wort in it right now and it looks OK. Brewed both the same day. I've just been leaving them in a dark corner and walking off...

I got a fair few of these from when I was buying Fresh Worts. They do get very soft when I fill em. Maybe the shock from the pool water weakens them. Or maybe something got in and started growing.

Floor in the garage has been feeling a bit sticky the last few days. Today I found one of my cubes had split open. It was still half full and didn't stink so this is recent. I filled it over a week ago. I fill them hot and dunk em in the pool to cool off. Can I expect more of these?

I got a lot of stuff off Gummy, Urns, Kegs, Gas Bottles, freezers I but cut the top off a CUB keg as a boiler. I've ended up making 17L batches into a cube and I chuck the cube into the pool to cool it. That way I brew at will and pick a cube to ferment anytime I need/want to. Now I'd like to...

Settled down now and stopped spewing foam out. It's all good.

Could have made a major mess in my new fermenting freezer. 20L wort in a 30L tub. I used Wyeast 3068 in a 1litre starter from the same batch. The tube is now full of foam.

I put a Hefeweizen in the fermentor yesterday. Looked ok this morning but tonight it's trying to climb out of the airlock. I caught it before it jumped a bus to the casino. Luckily I use 3 piece airlocks and managed to scrounge a piece of tubing to fit the inner pipe. It was just long enough to...

How would you get the liquid out of an upright system like that? I had a chiller coil here that I chucked in an urn and was always worried that you can never get all the liquid out as both in/out are looped over the top of the urn. I know what my fermentor looks like if I don't leave it open and...

After struggling to keep up with demand using an old fridge that could only take a single fermentor, I finally bit the bullet and went looking for a freezer that would fit 2 x 30L buckets. Took a while to find one but jumped on it once I found it. I'm hoping never to see the insides of a bottle...

I poured a cube into my fermentor on Saturday at 10am. It went into the fridge at ambient, 29C. Twas 8PM before I saw 18C. Takes a long time to drop temp on that volume of liquid.

Thanks for a quick and hassle free bulk buy Paul. Been brewing all week end :)

I've just started milling my own grain. I'm wondering if I should be milling each grain with a different roller gap. I noticed today a few caramunich 2 grains dropped straight through the rollers. I've just been putting them all into the mill bin and milling the lot. Should I be milling them...

I notice it didn't split as quickly as an ale yeast. With ale yeast, I turn the stirrer off and it's visibly splitting in minutes. This lager yeast needed to be cooled before it split. I might give it a round of DME to see if I get the same result. Won't really need it till probably Tuesday odd...

Waiting is probably the best move. It's 9:35PM here and still 28C in the garage. I see a bigger fermenting fridge in my furture.

Bit hard to dunk the stirrer in water. Doing a 2L starter doubles the yeast. Split the result. Use one and store the other. On brew day restart the yeast with wort from the current brew.. By the time the 20L fermentor is at temp, the starter is at high krausen . Been working well for me with...

Ya know I searched for for that topic and got swamped with too many useless results to find that one, cheers. Looks like I'll need to get a new fermenting fridge, I can't even get a 1L flask into this one when the bucket's in there.

I've been making starters for all my brews lately, normally do a 2L starter, pour off most of the spent wort, swirl whats left and split it to 2 maison jars then into the fridge. On brew day, leave a jar out to warm up, pour off all the spent wort, grab some of wort from the brew, cool it in a...

Great. I wasn't to confident about adjusting hop quantities for no chill. Just seems to be to many unknowns for a no chill novice. I have the volume to do 34 litre batches so 17 hot litres in a cube and chill 17 litres into a fermentor. Add 3 litres of water and yeast to that one. I'll open that...

Changing a couple of grains 1. PaulHill (2 x BB Pale malt) (1 x weyermann Munich-1) (1 x weyermann Pilsner) (0.5 x Gladfields Wheat) 2. Black Devil Dog. 1x Weyerman Premium Pils, 1x Wey Munich 1, 1x Wey Vienna, 1 x Gladfields US Ale 3. Sam_H. 1x Fawcetts Maris otter, 1x Barret Burston Wheat. 4...

To be honest, I just wanted to check numbers today, my volumes have been out for ages. So designed a 20L brew in beer smith, knocked it back to 17L to fit the Cube and brewed the wort. I got 17.4L out and SG numbers are very close to design so that's all good and it looks like I have this new...