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I make pretzels for special occassions, however due to the effort involved I haven't made them all that often recently. I have tried bi-carb gut I haven't found the result up to par with caustic soda. With that in mind, I have made in excess of 20 batches and with the right precautions, I...

Check out these guys - It might even be cheaper if you visit them and offer to buy 3 at a time. You could almost get a 98l Robinox for the price the other mob wants. http://www.allquip.com.au/home/index.cfm?f...amp;startrow=11 If anyone knows of an online mob that does a better price, I would...

Mine didn't have any spots of rust when I got it, however it is not to say that they didn't clean them up as part of a QA to ensure less returns of their pots. I filled it with water all the way to the top and there are no beads or signs of it leaking which is a great relief. Did your leak at...

Boiling is how everyone else would be doing it I suspect. Why would you want to add them after the boil would be the only question that comes to mind. Cheers Roller

A couple of other things that I experienced... The replies from Tony were a lot quicker when I was interested in buying something. I sent him a few emails to ask why there were two different pots delivered, and one clearly being not as well manfactured and I received no answer. When I started...

Can you confirm if your pot had the 4mm extra base or if yours did not have the 4mm stainless rim at the bottom? I ordered two of these and received one with the 4mm base (as per the advert) which was made quite well and had no visible welds. The other pot did not have a 4mm lip at the bottom...

In the past, when I bulk primed in the fermenter for bottling & kegging I had identical ratios of DME in the keg which might explain the higher carbonation in the keg dispensed beers. Mind you, they were easily fixed as it is easy enough to release a bit of pressure after the first sample if it...

+1 Assuming you can attach the base again, I would drill two 32mm holes, purchase two stainless 2200W elements and run it as an electric kettle instead of using gas. That way you will also spend less money on gas re-fills. You should be able to get a double batch to boil easily enough and...

Considering it is a Blichman with no interior welds and generally acknowledged as the Rolls Royce of fermenters that is a very good suggestion. I might have to see if the same mob can do 27Gal jobs at a good price. Looking at iBrew they cost about $1895 with Triclamps or $1595 with standard...

I would agree that I have always had a better experience with my bottled beer than the equivalent kegged beer. Not sure what it is but I would definately agree that natural carbonation yields results I personally like better. It stands to reason that there might be different grades of CO2 so...

I believe that caustic soda is perfect for stainless steel as it passivates the stainless - I leave it in my fermenter overnight and the solution I use would be a touch stronger than what BribieG is using. I do rinse throroughly with water and sanitize with a no rinse solution before using the...

Put it as close to the bottom as possible to get the maximum capacity of the vessel. Heat rises and most immersion elements usually destroy themselves if they are not covered by liquid so the lowest possible point is the most logical. Cheers Roller

I suspect you might not be quite on the mark with your response. I haven't seen too many commercial breweries where the air inside their fermenter is filtered but then I have only been to three so far. I don't believe there is much risk of an airborne infection since there are many...

A much simpler solution is to get yourself a wine aerator which works on the venturi principle. I bought a few for $29.95 some time ago from an online shop. The idea for wine is that it is equivalent to having the wine in a decanter for more than an hour. I think the ones I have here are cheap...

It comes down to the amount of time you are willing to wait for the HLT to get to strike temperature, how responsive you want your HERMS to be and how long you want to wait for your wort to start boiling. What also affects some of these times is how good your insulation is. I susepct even if...

Since the bottles are made for wheat beers which have higher carbonation than other beers, there is a significant chance that the german breweries use slightly thicker glass as well which makes them a perfect candidate for home brewers. I am permanently looking for these types of bottles as I...

QldKev, Thanks for that - Quite a useful spreadsheet. With the elements needed to maintain a rolling boil, I would assume that it would be less power than to get to the boil, otherwise you would be dealing with a fairly high evaporation rate. Cheers Roller

Paul, I am looking at making a smaller system which will boil about 140 liters. At the moment I am looking at using 3 * 2200 stainless elements which seem to be made particularily to be installed in kettles and HLT. I have a fourth one which I will add to the kettle if the boil isn't coming...

I purchased one of the impellor upgrades as well from Process Pumps. Haven't installed it but for my kettle pump, I was intending on performing the upgrade to get more power through the March pump. Seeing that it is quite a bit longer, it is very likely that it will also remove the niggly issue...

I have a number of these and they are definately made to be mounted and not to be hand held. The power is connected via a IEC plug and I don't believe they are water proof so when you leave it hanging upside down, there is a risk of water entering where the power is connected. I have not...