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No, but it's complicated... For starters (for beer) there's different tiers of tax based on the AbV, < 1.15%, <3.5% > 3.5% < 1.15% there's no Tax. (for >1.15 but <3.5 I don't remember) For > 3.5% the tax currently is $49.50 per LAL in a bottle, and $34.87 in a keg. (where "bottle" is any...

I'm not complaining, it's much closer for me, I can drop my entries off in person. Gosford show ground is a bit out-of-the-way, that's all.

An hydrometer uses density to measure sugar concentration of the wort. For example sake, say you make a wort that gives a reading of 1.050 AKA "1050". You measure your starting gravity just before you pitch the yeast. Then, sometime later, you take another reading. Say after 2 weeks your...

Ref: http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/craft-beer-tax-axed-in-federal-budget/news-story/688205b3634bebe0715e702cc7fde60d (WARNING: news.com.au link) What this is referring to is an proposed excise law change . Basically if beer is packaged in containers >= 48 litres there is a...

How'd it end up at Gosford ?

I'm interested in how to wash them. They have them in my LHBS. You can never see past the ball right? So how do you know it's clean? I guess you wouldn't dry-hop these kegs.

I want some of the yeast.

Please elaborate on how you are calculating efficiency. Crossing the Is and dotting the Ts. As MHB says: Check your malt crush (post a photo) Calibrate your thermometer! - https://www.foodsafety.com.au/blog/calibrating-probe-thermometers-in-a-commercial-kitchen Calibrate your hydrometer -...

What about something like an ESP8266? http://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-a-Complete-Beginners-Guide-IOT/ How do you get the signal off the Auber PID ?

I've got Perlicks, and if you quickly throw the tap just a smidgen forward it does this too. But I don't think that's by-design.

If it were me, I would start isolating the components, trying to get back to the state of having something working. Then add single components back into the circuit. At each step, verify the additional component works - along with the others. Obviously stuff shouldn't burn if it's wired...

Have you read the various articles about whirlpooling your wort while chilling? Supposedly that gives a good speedup too.

That's an interesting little machine, I like it. What type of "Board" do you compile this against? ESP8266? It doesn't build for me though, do I need a special version of something? I'm trying with the latest Arduino (1.8.5), latest ESP8266 "board", and BLE library fresh from github...

It's a Rinnai 340(?) litre stainless HWS that pumps something (glycol?) up to 2x solar panels on the roof. The system itself looks just like a regular HWS-tank-thing, but there's shrouded pipes that go over the roof. The panels are on the western side of the house, and the HWS on the east...

I was shopping with the kids in Sydney. At the base of the building Kinokuniya bookshop is in, there was a Tesla "SUV" there on display. It looked interesting with an empty(ish) engine bay and boot. I had a bit of a drool at the inside electronics when the handsome young pre-sales guy...

Yes, just the "off peak" electricity costs, and only the HWS is connected to it. EDIT: Hmm, now I think of it, that might be the whole bill. but the HWS is about 30-50% of the total. I will find the bill.

We did pay an extra $$$ (can't remember, $500? $800?) to get the stainless steel tank option. But that was about average of all the quotes we got.

So a couple of years ago our old faithful, reliable hot water system rusted through. We fount out, much to our disappointment, it was irreplaceable and we had to drop $6.5k on a solar system. Great. Since then we're always running out of hot water in winter, and the hot tap-water is never...

I'm out ... I'll be down in Victoria picking up a new mash-tun.

The 3rd Sunday is tomorrow. Are we meeting anywhere ?