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Four days in the end. Was planning for shorter but time got away.

Split the secondary on the RIS today. 10L on 100g of American Oak chips that had been soaked in a mixture of Bowmore Cask Strength, Aberlour A'Bundh and Ardbeg Uggedail. Another 10L on 1kg of raspberries :) Took a solid FG reading too: 1.023. 14.87% :o

Have forwarded it onto a friend (in Adelaide) who is interested.

It is a matter of risk management. There are plenty of things that are ok without an earth, but a conductive vessel full of conductive liquid isn't one of them. Double insulated LV transformers, no problem.

Hydrometer reads 1.026, so within rounding/calculation error for the Refractometer reading. Win.

You only need one O-ring to seal the element. Put it on the inside with a recessed 1" nut.

There are many ways it can become live, the one that i have seen a couple of times is that the plastic surrounding the IEC pins gets soft and squidgy from all the current passing through the pin and eventually fails and shorts through to the pot. Both times this has blown the fuse because the...

My temp probe is low down close to the element and has the stream from the whirlpool return flowing towards it. You can see it poking out of the RHS in this picture: Havent had any issues with thin beer yet, but will see how a wheat goes soon. As for the float its to keep the return ontop of...

Yeah, i use mine through most ferments, but for this one i want the confirmation of the hydrometer as i have been adding dex to the primary and want to confirm the FG absolutely rather than having it dependent on the calculated OG.

Mine has stopped at roughly 1.024, all from packet yeast! Will take a hydrometer reading when i rack it off the yeast rather than my refrac readings.

The kettle is earthed on a weldless setup, just through the element housing and therefore the whole kettle itself.

Weldless elements are earthed, just through the housing and pot not the element itself.

That taster you gave me was quite berry filled, so i reckon it would be overpowering with double that!

First order through, although will probably add some more yeast to it later in the week.

Well the fermentation is pretty much finished, and to reduce the chance of infections from the explosion im going to rack it off to secondary sooner rather than later. Planning on racking half of it ontop of oak chips, and half ontop of raspberries. The American oak chips im figuring about...

Ive been considering using the baby stuff steriliser that we have for sterilising. Its a steam based unit, over 15mins or so. Anyone use something like that?

My last two orders from 2014online have had women's dresses in them instead of 1 piece ball valves :lol: Thankfully they have been the right size for my Mrs, which has made the process of buying stainless bling even easier. To top it off they have refunded the ball valve cost each time!

Interested in some Glycerine if you end up shipping :)

That US one is roughly the same as the Malt Muncher from KK, just a slightly different hopper and feed plates. A mate in the US bought one when he moved back recently. They come up relatively regularly from a couple of suppliers on ebay for about AU$100-105 (and i suspect are dropshipped from...

Well it went and did this: Another krausen explosion. Smaller than last time thankfully, and that photo is post clean up. Really need to get another spike adapter for a blow off tube. Stout tastes good so far. Come from 1.103 to 1.060 in 48hrs. Keep on going little yeasties.