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I have just done 5 double batches in a row with Nottingham and they all fermented very well. What is meant to go wrong when pressurising from the start?

I do 15psi from the start. Pitch yeast, chucking dry hops and connect spunding valve. You need to check the valve every now and then as they are generally not the most accurate of devices and drift a bit. Ferment at 20c and transfer to serving keg after 7 days. Let it sit at fermentation temps...

You could put a thermowell in the 10mm hole, or a thermometer. I have fermented in cornies under pressure quite a few times. Just bend the dip tube slightly, that way you can bend it back again later. Floating dip tube works pretty well in my 50L kegmenter but not sure it would be worth it for...

You can brew a kit at 15L if you wanted too, it will be higher ABV (more alcohol), and higher IBU (more bitter) as it will be more concentrated. This may or may not work for you dpending on your tastes. Instead of buying the pre bittered kits you could do extract brews and do your own bitterign...

That is pretty much the whole point of the device.

Nearly finished my new keezer.

This will work. I would use a stepped drill bit, easily the best tool for cutting larger holes in stainless. You could also just replace the font if you dont already have the tool to drill the hole and cant be stuffed muckign around with it. They are about $35 I think.

I highly reccomend the submerge test. Hook teh spunding valve up to a regulator and then dunk it in a sink full fo water. If there are leaks you will see them. Just did this in my new keezer gas system and found 3 separate leaks.

Are you serving your beer through gold plated lines?

Hey mate, add the grain slowly to the strike water stirring as you go. I have tried both with cooler water around 40c and at strike temp of around 70c. It's much easier to stir the grain into cooler water and it saves time as you can dough in as the temp is ramping. Have the pump running too...

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Haha, its goign to take about 4 years for the wife to emotionally recover from the 1K I just spent on brewing gear.

I want one...

I have tried getting to the boil at 3KW and then reducing the power a bit to say 2400W, but last couple fo batches I just left it on full blast. It does reduce the vigour of the boil a bit reduceing the power (funny that) but not sure what effect it has on boil off rate. Didnt pay enough attention.

I hate those clamps. They are secure but are a bugger to get on and off and you can't reuse them. Old school hose clamps all the way.

I haven't measured it exactly but pretty sure the evap rate is close to 5L/hour. You will struggle to do a 43L batch without topping up in the fermenter I think. 50L is the vessels volume to the brim. I usually sparge to the 45L mark and then boil to about 40L and even then I have had 2...

The entire tube of the plane is pressurised. That's planes are tubes. It's an easy shape to hold pressure, like a keg or a CO2 cylinder, both tubes. Just take the keg on the plane. It will be fine.

Looks pointless anyway. The pump just clogs if you try to use it post boil. The pick up for the pump would have been better on the side, not the bottom of the unit. At the very least right at the edge on the bottom. Might work ok if you brew a 15IBU lager I guess. Who's got time for that...

The dead space is not that important to take into account in a recirc system. As you recirc the wort it moves a portion of the wort from the deadspace to above/into the grain bed so as long as you are getting good flow through the bed it will be fine. I fill my 23L cube from the filter in the...

7KG in a full volume batch in a 50L guten is not a big grain bill. that would only be about 1050 or so OG in a 40L batch. I have been getting around 80% brewhouse efficiency so pretty high mash efficiency on most of my brews. That included a batch with an 11KG grist. Crush should be pretty...