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So I've been here for, uh, a few years now. I first turned up in 2009 looking for ginger beer recipes. At the time I was working in Switzerland. During apple season the village farmers would bottle fresh juice in PET containers and sell it on the corners of their farms with honesty boxes...

My 1st thought is that most (if not 99%) of commercial fermenters are 304 stainless steel or above. My 2nd thought is perhaps the author once tried to ferment in an old olive oil tin. My 3rd thought is that everything will be OK.

Greetings earth brewers and brewsters, I was doing a bit of reading on under and over oxygenating wort. Obviously both are possible, but under oxygenating is the bigger problem. Fine. That's the baseline theory - you want the correct amount if at all possible. But given it's really...

Right, so O2. The first time I saw it used was on a course at this place: All Gain Brewing, Boolaroo. At the time he cooled the wort, the O2 was injected in-line (with a T-piece air-stone) as the wort went from the chiller into the fermenter. I remember that there was only a very small amount...

Hey - I used my oxygenation wand for the first time last brew. It's a lot easier to use than just the air-stone on flexible plastic pipe. Makes using the O2 kit much easier - a nice and inexpensive upgrade. cheers, -kt

No Pics, but: I disassembled mine (not the butterfly valve though), all these bits can just be washed-up in the sink by hand. That leaves the "bulb". I rinsed the krausen-ring off with hot tap-water (50C). It wasn't a difficult ring this time though, some set like concrete. Then put the lid...

Mrs Wibble always makes lewd comments when I shower with my fermenter & kegs. I'm must rinsing them, honest!

Separate Heat Exchange for me. You're adjusting the temperature on less water. My HX is ? Say 4-6 litres.

I don't boil on electricity. The 4500 is in my HLT (185 litre, but I typically run 80-100). I have another element in the HERMS (3000 watt), but the controller switches only one element on at a time. Crusty is right too, you'd want more power for a quicker boil start time. But we only have...

Can you just set the target temperature on these? Looks like there's only 2 digits for the scale. It would be nice not to have to boil in the rain on the gas.

The first coke-fired drum-kilns for drying malt appeared in 1818, so that's plenty of time to rule-out needing a bit of smoked malt to replicate (coal , wood or straw) older style malt kilning methods. Obviously there's no point making a bad beer, but the idea is to taste something close to the...

IMHO we should start a new "Group Brew" project. Here's my suggestion: Replica India Pale Ale, circa 1850 (+/- 50 years). Maybe choose a recipe out of Ron Pattinson's "The Homebrewers Guide To Vintage Beer". He has 8 recipes taken from Brewery Records covering 1839 to 1953. It would be up to...

Yeah, that's basically correct: 1 element using 4500 watts at 240 volts takes 18.75 amps (watts = volts x amps). The circuit (wiring) needs to be able to handle this amount of current as a continuous load. If I wanted to run more heaters simultaneously, then I would need the circuit to handle...

32 amp needs a correct circuit on your house/shed/brew-cave, with appropriate circuit breaker (especially around water). This requires significant standards-compliant wiring. The thickness of the cable also depends on the length of the run. If the run is longer, the cable tends to be thicker...

The pressure does a few different things to the beer. One of the key points, is that fermenting under pressure reduces ester formation. This happens "naturally" in tall (huge) fermenters due to the weight of the liquid on itself. So say you were brewing a style which wanted less-esters (e.g...

It's a bit of "ocky-strap" cord, from the local non-bunnings hardware, where I can buy it by the metre. Probably can get it a lot of places, including bunnings, BCF, camping shops, etc. I use it also for holding the yoga-mat insulation around my mash-tun & HLT. Except there I need two rings.

Yep, I'm planning! But it's not a good day for me, as Mrs Wibble is heading out for a work trip that day. So I intend to be there, but I'll give my apologies now, just in case. I want your (plural) opinion on my gluten-free beer. And how to make it better. EDIT: can someone please PM (or...

My Munich Dunkel in the fermentasaurus is going well. Since I'm new to using the spunding valve, I've been checking it twice a day. I like the clear plastic, it's very interesting to see what's going on inside the fermenter. The last few days the lager has been fermenting like crazy. The...

I think you have a leak. Go over every join & junction with soapy water, including manifolds, etc. Turn your gas off. The next day, pull the pressure-release on your keg(s). At 40psi (275 KPa) it should sound like a rocket launch. I know I've got a leak when stuff doesn't carbonate property.

Basically I started homebrewing mucking around with ginger beer soft drink that fermented too far. Do you want a soft-drink like ginger beer - like a sweet ginger beer with alcohol? Or something like a pale ale (beer) with ginger in it?