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I always fill mine until beer comes out the gas disconnect. Once full, I purge a few times with co2, then connect the gas and set the regulator to 3 bar and leave it for 24 hours. Works fine, but you'd need to have either a one way check valve, or one of these. I have the latter.

The fridge would be ok, but you could pick up half a dozen second hand ones for the same price. I've got 2 Fisher & Paykel's, similar size, one cost me $40 the other $50.

Sorry, I read your earlier comment on my phone and mis-read it. The reason I thought you meant 10.5l was your dead space, is because on a 50 litre that's about what it would be without a pick up tube. It would take about 11- 12 litres to get above the elements on mine. On the 50 litre, using...

I sit the ruler on the top, but that shouldn't matter, because I've measured the water in, when it gets to the marks on the rod, it should be the same.

Do you mean as your dead space? I previously used a pick up tube, so I had almost zero dead space and just allowed for losses to trub and absorption. Now I'm using a lauter helix and my losses have increased by about 1 - 1.5 litres. That's fine, I can make adjustments for that. But I'm...

Hope they minced him up and fed him to some stinking, feral pigs.

When I first bought my 50 litre BM, I made a measuring stick to accurately measure the mash volume. I 'calibrated' it against the markings on the centre rod using the 45 - 50 & 55 litre markings as my reference points. From there I marked other volumes using the same measurements for each 1...

Just get a 600mm long stainless steel ruler and add water to your kettle with a large metric jug, which you are certain is accurate. Make a note of the volumes which you can then mark on your ruler with a permanent marker. If you make a note of every 10 litres, you can work the rest out afterwards.

The riff master is dead. Long live the riff master. Rest in Peace.

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It's a bit difficult to tell from that photo, but they look as though they have a lever-lock ring that seals the lid back on, much like some large paint cans do. If that's the case, they would be fine.

I keep all of mine are in my garage, I can sometimes hear rats in the roof cavity, but they'd have to chew through the gyprock ceiling to get in. They haven't done that, yet. We had more of them when we had chooks and I used to throw sachets of ratsack up there, but stopped doing that when I...

I wouldn't use anything that wasn't air tight and insect proof. 60 litre and 30 litre drums for my base malts and those blue ones for spec malts A bit of plywood in between them helps make them more stackable.

You were going ok until 'insperational' .

I sit a 300x400 floor tile on the fridge rack. Holds the weight of a full 7gal Brewbucket and really easy to clean. I also just grabbed a few of these plastic trays to sit the fermenter on to contain the mess when there's a krausenover. Haven't used them yet, but they'll come in handy when I do.

I think you're getting Flouride and Bromide mixed up. But don't let that stop the conspiracy.

They've forgotten/ignorant about smallpox.

A good friend of mine is an anti-vaxer. She doesn't trust doctors, but doses her young son up on handfuls of 'natural medicines'. Has also hinted that the Port Arthur massacre could have been a government plot to disarm the population and as soon as 9/11 happened, she was calling it a...

It's been 9 years and 6 months since he posted his comment.

I had a couple of small cockroaches lurking around the door seal on one of my fermenting fridges. Hit 'em with some starsan. That ****** them up.