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Polyclar works most effectively and quickly on beer which is very cold & mostly clear (of yeast). However - it also works on warm, or even hot beer or wort and also quite yeastie beer - you just need more of the product and/or it will work more slowly. Polyclar will not begin to do its work...

Sake Wine Tonic water (from mhb) - often but not always mixed with tanqueray Martinis - wet and dirty with tanq, drier and with a twist for hendricks

And yet, lying on the floor of my bedroom does not cause me to pass out, nor would it if my bedroom was an enclosed space (and i have an enclosed space ticket so dont get all ranty at me) not even if someone sealed it up and left it undisturbed for ten damn years. The Co2 doesn't settle it mixes...

theory shmeory. No chilled beers are measurably more bitter than beers which are not no-chilled. I know, I have in fact measured the difference. Enough measurements to be statistically significant for the fussy science types out there, iso octane extractions if you care. I made graphs and...

I use and am a massive fan of the Over the Side elements. 2400W, certainly enough for single batch brewing, plug and play as it gets, no hole required in your kettle, no possibility of leaky gaskets - and if today you decide you want to make liquid in a different container hot, you just move...

Good quality camlocks - for five years I reckon 50% of the energy i spent on a brewday was spent tracking down, swearing at and fixing leaks in my brewery.... mostly disconnects. Worth every damn cent to look at the foor and see it bone dry.

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Nothing wrong with stepped infusions - just another way to get heat into the pot. Neither better, nor worse - just different. Not much good to you though if you are trying to maintain your brewery at the lovely simple and easy to maintain number of vessels that BIAB actually requires .... one...

Only sort of what I meant actually. There is the polyphenol complexing which is probably one of the big ones and a number of other things, most of which ARE beneficial, because the bad stuff happens when beer is warm, not cold. They dont constitute giant changes in the beer, but they ARE most...

Your problem is that your expectations are too high. You "didn't get 70% into the fermenter" - and for a first time BIAB brewer I wouldn't expect you would. Mind you, I wouldn't expect it if you were batch sparging either. BIAB mashes convert perfecly well, without particularly great effect on...

what MHB said... Petite mutants aren't called that because they are in and of themselves particularly small (although i suppose they might be), its just typically obtuse (to us) naming by frenchy biologists of times past. Immature yeast cells, just budded, are both much smaller and also...

Comments you have seen in this thread about the immersion elements and how they would work in BIAB, are largely misinformed. The combination you have settled on - A stockpot and an OTS immersion element of this type or similar is, in my not so humble opinion, the very best possible set up...

Dont forget your wallet at JB - great place, great staff, great food, great beer..... but you pay for the experience.

Josie Bones to hit both the beer and foodie requirements as hard as possible. or if you really dont want to walk far, the Baden Powell on victoria parade - just a few minutes walk from your apartments, decent food, decent craft beer selection. But - its wednesday night, so i suggest a short...

The dinner is what has me excited this year.... that club night will be a blast is pretty much a given, but the dinner is just chock a block full of stuff this year. One for the partners. Great band (dancing if you want) interesting speakers (not just brewing and homebrewing), the AABC awards...

Unless the location is really important - I'd go to the Geelong plant. Much bigger, more modern and reflective of the equipment and techniques used these days. I mean, burnley isn't prehistoric or anything, but geelong is the main game and burnley is the sideshow for BB in this region. Nice guys...

Just be certain your filter was properly housed.... I've had cloudy beer come through a filter just from bypass. re-settle filter in housing and go again, clear as a bell. No need to by new filter. or maybe its cactus. Why in god's name did you have it in the freezer?

well worth it, fabulous book!!

Buy a proper false bottom Dan, the biggest one that will fit in your vessel - and definately flow control for your pump. Look up a few of the RIMS/HERMS threads about recirculating vessels, yours is no different from them, all the same rules, hints, tips and techniques will apply. Its not a...

yes - you will find it hard to "add a number of drops to a glass" because isohop is so concentrated that even one drop will make a glass of beer essentially undrinkably bitter. If you want to experiment, then put 2 or three drops into the bottom of a shot glass, and then add 10 times that many...