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Paulhill said : 1/2 bags are allowed. Added 0.5 x Weyermann Pilsner. 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...

I'll go halves in a Gladfields wheat. If you do the other half then Total = 12. I can pickup from your place, I'm at Carindale. 1. PaulHill (2 x BB Pale malt) (1 x weyermann Munich-1) (1 x weyermann Pilsner) 2. Black Devil Dog. 1x Weyerman Premium Pils, 1x Wey Munich 1, 1x Wey Vienna, 1 x...

Pumped 4 brews though so far and temp stability is no longer an issue. Beer smith tells me 79% mash efficiency on the last brew but I still had volume issues. I forgot to count losses in the chiller, almost 2 litres in that thing and it's so small. Thanks to all for the help and prompting, I'm...

I have a bosch blue cordless so have used that occasionally and it works fine. But to be honest I'm getting the LHBS to mill the bulk of it. They'll sell me decimals of a kilo so why not.

Should have bought an inkbird.

Try sticky tapping the temp probe to your bucket and tape a piece of bubble wrap over the probe. If it's still a mile out, take it back, it's stuffed.

Not here. It takes about 24 hours to get to 2C. I've been tossing in microwaved gelatin once it does and then run it through a filter into a keg 24 hours later. Gelatin seems to strip out the chill haze. Would be nice to have a bigger fermenting fridge but this one will only fit one 30L bucket...

Brew Day yesterday. The plan changed and I was going to cube 17L but I didn't get the expected boil off, my volumes where out, so I dropped the wort into a fermentor, and put 1.5L into a flask. I pitched the collected yeast into the flask and it was away within the hour and booming about 3 hours...

Yep, just a dark crappy phone pic.

Cheers guys. I've tried upping temps and swirling on previous batches without success. This time I'll try a bigger hammer :)

I'm doing a recipe that calls for safale s-04. I've used this stuff before and it has always stalled on me at 1022. This time I've done a starter. I've got it going in 800ml of DME on a stirrer, poured off the spent liquid and tipped 3/4 of the yeast into a sterile jar.. I dumped another 800ml...

And plastic is hard? If they want in they'll get in trust me. I spent a lot of time keeping rats at bay in various jobs. Keeping the odour down is the key I think.

My local home brew shop uses this profile. Start with RO water and it's easy.

Don't you believe it. I've seen solid oak doors that rats have chewed through. If they want in they will get in.

I found the manual on line. Compressor delay is default to 3 minutes, max is 8 minutes. It also does heating so make sure it's set to cooling. Set device mode (F4) to 1: cooling. Link to Mangrove Jacks Dual Temp controller manual, print it and check...

Where do you have the probe? I sticky tape the probe to the bucket then sticky tape a piece of bubble wrap over that. Also check the compressor delay isn't set to something stupid.

My plan is to eventually do concentrated double batches. I have a pile of 15L cubes here. I should have the boil space to do a 30L batch. 15L in the fermenter, then add 5L of water to temp plus yeast. Then the other 15L in a cube for ron. Only got room in the fridge for one bucket. Still need a...

I think your missing the point. I have a cooler that looses almost 5 degrees an hour even after an hour of pre-heating. I've fixed it in a big way and the only outlay was a new ball valve for the leaky one on the pump. All the other bits where on hand.

I don't think the size of the pot matters. There's a 50 gallon herms pot on utube. Controlling the heat looks like the key. Quite a few I looked at used the return mash temp to control the element and some halved the supply volts to the element while doing this so that would also limit...

Yeah, been there done that, it did nothing. I've been working with electronics and electrical stuff all my life. I prefer the controller to be honest. Was only $25 off fleabay, it's digital and I got 2 other thermometers here that agree with the sensor. The thermowell will clean up that wiring...