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Hi WWWH I think 1/4" is too small because a small piece of grain or husk could block it. I would put a 1/2" piece of threaded pipe through the side of the esky. Bunnings sells brass threaded pipe in various lengths. Cheers Pedro

Hi wimbymoonshine I don't think you will be able to precipate the carbonates out easily, but you can filter them out a bit. It will depend on how good a filter you have whether you will reduce them enough for what you Have a look here on hbd. There is a reasonable primer on water chemistry...

Hi wimbymoonshine You could use some distilled / RO water and mix it 1/2 and 1/2 with tap water. Cheers Pedro

Hi Sathid It should be fine. I would store it in the fridge and then take it out in time to warm up to the same temperature as the wort you are pitching into. Cheers Pedro

Yes Pedro PS - do I need to say more on this? Find yourself a friendly brewer in the USA and get them to forward them on.

Hi You can also buy usb or serial port to one wire convertors for the DS1820's from Maxim. I run this stuff under windows. I was running this under linux before, but for various reasons I now only run it under Windows. Also, have a look at Marty's site. for some graphing software. Cheers Pedro

Sammus The oxygen from when the wort is on the stir plate will be held within the wort - oxidation at time shouldn't be a problem. If the wort was hotter, like mash temperatures, then the oxidation may be an issue. Let's not start the war on HSA :rolleyes: Cheers Pedro

Sam You should oxgenating your wort after pitching the yeast, they need oxygen to grow. Cheers Pedro

Hi Cliffo I would wait until you are closer to FG before raising the temperature for the diacetyl rest. If you are aiming for about 1.010 to 1.012 then wait until the OG is around 1.015. Did you have a good hard rolling boil? - I think it makes a lot of difference to lagers. Diacetyl is...

Hi youngy I reckon there were some in K-Mart at Marion, but that was a while ago. Cheers Pedro

citymorgue2 - They don't have a date on the article. The date in (not on) the webpage is 19/07/2006 and I am fairly sure that article was around a long time before that. Cheers Pedro

Not Happy Jan Picked up a 160 litre freezer this week, though I may be able to bend things and use the 160 as a genuine freezer. SWMBO is agreeable to this :D My only hassle is that who will service / warranty these. Probably a fair chance K-Mart picked these up cheap and when they have...

A very good question AndrewQLD May have something to do with the fact that I wasn't running when that article was written a few years ago B) Cheers Pedro

Just had a look at their site, which had this info on their water Typical analysis shows Mg./L., Magnesium 23.5, Bicarbonate 176, Sodium 149, Potassium 3.4, Calcium 29.0, Sulphate 69.1, Iron .030, Chloride 202 and pH 7.2 - 8.3. High Na and Cl and low Ca levels would make this a bugger of a...

It was a very interesting event - would love to have had time to explore more of the food and "liquids" on sale around the event. The Microbrewery tent was an interesting place to be around lunch time today, you could barely get to the bars for a beer. A lot of educating of palettes and we...

Wee Stu - I wish you would try to keep up with the rest of us :P I posted about it on Wednesday night - on this post here Pedro

Wednesday is fine for me too. Now to make sure, we are al talking about Wednesday 26th? Cheers Pedro

OK, looks like we are all up for it. Let's set a night - Wednesday, Thursday or Friday around 5:30pm??? Cheers Pedro

Me Too :P

Hi daz Normally found on The brewery site but found a link to a downloadable version here. I did have a copy, but can't find it. Cheers Pedro