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MAH Try Creative Pumps on Marion Rd. They have a lot of floject pumps and they are cheaper than the March pumps. Tell them the specs you want and they will do the rest. Cheers Pedro Just had a look at some of the prices on the website and they were scary - a call would sort that out though

And the 4% expand /shrink factor correctly applied should get the missing % you are looking for. Pedro

PP The wort expansion figure of 4% is the difference for water between 0 and 100C, so unless you have a consistent baseline temperature, your figures may be out by a bit. Also, the refractometer readings vary greatly with temperature. Always cool to around 20 to 25C, wash your refractometer...

Hargie I think your batch size is 36 litres and your promash figures should be based on what you get after the boil and before dilution. Cheers Pedro

Folks If you use promash correctly, the efficiency includes all of your water additions (dliutions) and losses (sparge, grain absorption). You must have the correct batch size set otherwise you will get these variations. eg - change the amount of water added to kettle and you efficiency doesn't...

Cheers Doc and Aaron Do you think I should mention the paid staff/brewer/cleaner (all one of them) called Brew Brad or not :P Not to mention a good wife who let me play with big shiny toys. :party: Cheers Pedro

This has been around for a while and appears to be badly misquoted / semi myth. A google turns up lots of links including this one. Cheers Pedro

How about a AusseHomeBrewer specific gadget for Vista? Showing the latest topics etc etc. You should be able to do this with a generic RSS one, but an AusseHomeBrewer specific one would be great. Cheers Pedro

Hi Razz They are Cornelius kegs that I got from C&C. The one I have with me a the moment is about 215 to 220mm acrosss, the top is not completely round (may have had an accident or 2). Ross, thanks for the info Cheers Pedro

For those with the Centrex CTCF200 freezers. I am looking at buying one of these and with all of the various keg sizes, I want to make sure 4 kegs will fit. Can someone tell me the dimensions of the kegs that they put inside one of these freezers (height probably doesn't matter)? I think my...

Hi Brewer_010 A quick check of promash shows for 1kg of grain you get 10 points of gravity @ 70% efficiency You need 650g of coopers liquid malt extract or 550g of a generic dry extract to get the same amount of extract. These figures are going to depend a bit on what extract you use. The...

Not if I have anything to do with it. None left for itinerants.

Wortgames 330ml is the size most microbreweries package their beer. With the bottling lines is isn't practical to have 2 different size bottles and I am not sure how many microbreweries produce larger bottles (Little Creatures do) As for 5 litres - the difference in cost to 18 is bugger all...

Hi Wortgames Look at this way - commercial boutique breweries sell beer for $50 to 60 ($2.25 to $2.50 per bottle) in packs of 24. It is less than 40 cents excise per bottle (quick and dirty calc). So apart from the yeast / fermentation costs being taken off from the carton cost (it has to...

Hi Wortgames An interesting concept. Let's say we do a batch - 1200 litres of 330ml bottles = 3600 bottles. Now divide that between the number of homebrewers that would use it and tell me how long before we could sell it all. We would have to move all of that in under 3 months (preferrably...

The $200 is about right depending on quality and quantity for new ones - don't forget to add all the other bits like duty, customs clearance costs they get you for on imports. As for CUB or Lion Nathan prices, with the numbers they but, they will do a lot better on price. Yep, secondhand ones...

Yep, I know the actual cost. Cheers Pedro PS - did you want to know the cost or just know if I knew :) PPS - not a lot of change out of $200

Hi DrSmurto You have my attention :D - do you have any links to info about this? For those who don't think you can skunk beer, get some Hahn Light and leave it in bright sunlight for a while , it does get skunked. I did this for a few people doing the BJCP exam. Cheers Pedro

Hi Blake There is a simple answer for this. What they suggest on the label is to pitch it at 20C. After that you reduce the temperature over the next 12 to 14 hours to your fermenting temperature. This allows the yeast to mulitply to the required numbers during the aerobic phase at a temperate...

Hopefully when I get the bottling line running, I can supply some decent samples of the 'Phest beer. I had some myself over xmas and it was oxidised badly, don't know what I did wrong with that one. The Pale Ale is a very secret recipe, but I can tell you it is only 2 aussie malts. Selection...