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iam hearing you, in the end i settled on a 350l upside down, the freezer section is pretty small and is wasted but the upside is the fridge shelf of perfect height and doesn’t have a compressor bump in the fridge cavity.

do you need a high pressure pump?, i got one of these for filling up an IBC on our water cartage trailer that i tow behind the polaris for filling troughs and watering trees, goes really well, and moves a heck of a lot of water but definitely wont lift it far. (Head: 3-5M)...

all looks pretty straight fwd t me except the "shower" part L??. so the compressor is running (and not in a stall) and its not cooling, IMO sadly its not worth getting a professional to fix it, theres 2 issues here the bill will be more than you could get another working 2nd hand frig for and...

does the compressor run, if so i would say your looking at a paperweight unless you know someone that could try gassing it, otherwise if the compressor isnt running your flying, just bypass the controller with an stc1000. looks like it would fit perfectly in the cavity in the front as well...

i think your pretty much on the money with cascade, i dont know of a freely available hop that grows well in more northern latitudes and is so versatile. Rocker on this forum has had them flower successfully as far north as brisbane.

my nice little road warrior regulator setup.

prolly the first year i have had cones developing b4 xmas., west gippsalnd here.

true, i use a temperature offset to compensate this.

"*probe was attached to the outside of the fermenter" place the probe in the air in the fridge space, then you will get tighter temp control, let the frig keep the air temp at the target and due to the big surface area on the fermenter it will follow. prolly not related to your issue but...

they will regrow but i reckon the spiecies makes a big diff, my cascade has been killing it for the last 3 years where the fuggles has struggled every year, reckon iam gonna pull the pin on the fuggles.

what phil said, also its good to cold crash then the hop matter sinks with the trub.

many of us are students of that school, i was a can and a kilo bloke with poor temp control and bottling. beers were drinkable but hardly anything to rave about however it was actually the bottling rigmarole that lead me away from brewing. on the positive side at least i was familiar with the...

so your fermenting at ambient temperature??? and why scrape the kraussen layer off? has been mentioned that the layer on the top protects the work from oxygen in the air.

the oxygen doesn’t really affect the open fermentation as you get a layer of co2 on the top of the fermenter. I went on the Batemans beer tour in Lincolnshire a couple of years back, they open ferment all their beers, i took a wiff of the air on top of the fermenter and nearly passed out with...

MHBs suggestion of a small circulating fan is good, i put these in 3 way gas fridges and smallish 12v fridges and they make a huge diffence. a nice quiet 12v 180mm computer fan is perfect.

welcome back to the game. firstly, IMO temperature control while fermenting is king. set yourself up with a suitable fermenting fridge with temperature controller. this could be a little bit difficult for you being off grid as refrigerators have a high starting current and some inverters may...

i just chuck em in the primary when i pitch the yeast, they all sink and get stuck in the trub when you cold crash. not much fun getting hops stuck in your poppet valves

burrs already

nothing wrong with blending hops.