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Usually if things appear too cheap to be true - they usually are ! I would like to use a PID for temperature control of my mashing, I have seen the Aubins controller and have no doubt that these are the best but what is the difference between this one and the Aubins except the price ...

I use the brown pump,does a great job, 6 litres per minute @ 3 meters. When I worked - retired now - I used to drive a $80,000 BMW 535 series, I used it to drive to the golf club and to go fishing. I am now rertired and dont have the same disposable income, I still drive to the golf club and go...

This is the pump in operation - pumping 6 litres/minute at 1 metre head have a plastic control tap in-line to restrict the flow to allow the sparge without disturbing the grainbed.

Ian, I have just downloaded the latest version. On the main page -- Row H5, I have a note in Red which says ADJUST THE VOLUMES OF CO2. Should this be there ? Love the programme and the new version. Well done.

Agreed, I was unprepared and had not thought that I would be that much short. I will sparge in some way next time, thinking about best to do it, either by hand or with the pump.

Thank you Bribie, the benefit of posting a topic is to get as many ideas as possible, my initial thought was to mash in with less water - say 25/26 litres and do a sparge to get to my pre-boil volume of 31 litres. With the pulley system I have enough headroom to...

I attempted the Worms Bucket trial yesterday and make the following comments and observations : Doing a wet test to ensure all joints are secure and no leaks. 33 litres of water and 5.3 Kg of grain gave it a good mash and started the pump. I began with the bucket on a trivet because I was...

Michael, I have something in mind, I will PM you to let you know my thoughts - I don't want to embarrass myself with what I have in mind.

This not a bucket in a bucket method ! The method is a bucket in a Crown Urn, using the bucket as the mash tun/lauter tun. I reckon the mucking about would be drilling 3mm holes around the bucket,the novelty is in the use of utility items which can be modified to achieve the same effect as some...

I did solder them,they were the leftover bits from my other sparge ring, the "D" shape is not by design merely the shape they were. I am attaching the bucket to the "Bribie Pulley System" so that I can raise the bucket, when I get the flowrate right, so that I am just covering the grain bed...

Should be good to make Pail Ale.

The sparge ring is adjustable within reason and is also variable in terms of volume,I included an inline tap.

I begin this topic by acknowledging that Bribie G is the instigator of brewing in a bucket, I have merely embellished what he conceived as a good potential method, I have introduced a recirculating method to his original efforts. Firstly a geometry lesson for Michael in readiness for next...

It is not about keeping things clean ! When you boil the wort some of it will bake onto the element, this is whilst you are boiling. To get the element to start heating again you have to scape the residual baked on wort/malt off the element ring - in the concealed element version - the...

That is the same as mine : SP20/20, 12 volt - 6 litres/minute @ 3 Metre head. Temperature 120oC rating. www.solarprojects.co.uk.

I don't have to lift the bucket ! Pumping the wort into the top of the bucket via the SP20/20 mini pump,recirculates the wort, the temperature of the wort I control by an STC1000. This system is not fully automatic because after each step I have to reset the STC1000 to the next step...

I am convinced that the bucket method will prove to be a real winner, offering so many variables coupled with the pump and STC 1000 I find step mashing and temperature control very good. If interest on this method continues I will post some pictures of the components that I have made, I try...

The sparge ring I made for the bag version is 33cms diameter and does not fit the bucket, I had a small piece of copper left over and made a smaller version to fit the bucket, not very pretty, but I will get some more copper when I am happy with the prototype. The false bottom I am using is a...

Something like this Mark ? I have the options of having a fluidised grain bed by lowering the bucket to the liquid level in the urn or a continuous sparge by raising the bucket and adjusting the sparge rate to maintain liquid/wort just covering the grain bed. I raise the bucket to whichever...

Hello Ian, I recently bought a refractometer. After doing a few checks to see how things are progressing on brewday I find wide variations between the hydometer reading and the refractomter, should I calibrate my refractometer to the hydrometer reading ? I have it calibrated to...