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How big is your burner? If you're pumping in a ridiculous amount of heat you can evaporate off water at a high rate. The rate of evaporation is dependent on a couple of things, primarily ambient air pressure and heat input. The ambient air pressure thing (low pressure) might explain why your...

It was actually a bit of an unnecessary comment, seeing as pretty much all of the base malts you buy from your LHBS are fully modified. It simply means how much of the malted grain's complex starches are converted to simple starches ready for saccharification in your main mash rest. Because the...

What about: Tues night: spend 30 mins to set up gear, weigh out / mill grain and set a timer to get water up to strike temp for 7pm on the next night. Wed night: mash and boil from 7-9pm. Stick to well modified malts and you can reduce your mash time down to 30 mins. Chuck into a cube and no...

How are you hips growing in this heat guys? Mine have stalled. At about 9 feet they have stopped. Wondering if it's a seasonal thing or they're deficient in something.

If you want to do a proper Munich Helles, use Spalt hops. Give it a proper long lager (I'm talking months, weeks is not long enough). And boil the sheeeez out of it so that you definitely dont get any DMS. Yeast I would use is Munich strain WLP860 or the Boho yeast WLP800 as a substitute.

I think he might be away. I've been PMing him too.

Soz man, no idea. Have you tried a music store? Aren't they also microphone connectors?

Righto - thanks. I've never even considered this (except when harvesting my own hops). And what's more, I've never noticed a difference in calc'd vs actual bitterness. I guess cos most of my hops are stored pretty cold.

I noticed on some sites about hops they mention the storage stability of hops. For example this page on Columbus says that after 6 months of storage only 52% of alpha acids are (I presume) isomerisable. That seems like complete arse to me, as I've used stored hops from 3 years ago and my calcs...

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PM sent re kegerator

Simple way would be a 1/2" tee piece in the line heading back to the MLT.

To follow on from what mofox has said, the reason for taking your temp measurement at the outlet of the coil is that it is the most representative temperature of your hot recirculating wort and a change in temp here can be compensated easily by your control system by changing the temp of your...

Maybe there's plans to expand by opening overseas breweries, the way a lot of larger breweries do. Might end up seeing "brewed and bottled in Geelong" on their labeling.

How the hell have I missed this thread Matty?? Subscribed. Saw your last day at work on FB and had a massive pang of jealousy ;-) Will probably head down to Albany in the new year with the family so will definitely have to come past for a tour!! So stoked for you and the family to have got...

Yeah it's great news for us in Oz. I just can't believe a Dr Evil sized offer was made on it.

Wowzers... Home brewery turned craft brewery Ballast Point sold to Corona for $1 billion. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ballast-point-beer-deal-20151116-story.html

Sitting at work in the a/c, foot up on desk, trawling through AHB. Not too much discomfort :P

No idea - waiting for updates. I'm betting it was an English style though ;-)

Ok, maybe we can wait until end of season then. Two reasons: (1) dont have to go digging up the plant just yet, and (2) broke my ankle on the weekend so cbf doing anything except sitting with my leg up at the moment!