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If I want to shake my fermenter I just loosely put the lid on cover the airlock hole with my finger and shake. I usually use a spray bottle of sodium per carbonate followed by a spray bottle of starsan to clean and sanitise, the starsan does not need to soak to sanitise (in fact the foam will...

Working foe me too. So I am liking using Tapatalk!! Cheers, Andrew. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk - now Free

G'day all, Found myself in Melbourne with some time on my hands last weekend. So I rocked up to Vicbrew and offered to help, ended up stewarding for some of the IPAs. Got to taste some great homebrew and had a great time ( Mr Walker you have a lot to answer for)!! Thanks to Martin for taking...

G'day Djar007, By my calculations $25.80 by 50 will put you over the $1000 customs limit, just something to keep in mind. Cheers, Andrew.

G'day all, Update time, kegged this brew on Tuesday night. Still a little green, but is a nice refreshingly dry hoppy wit. The spices and citris are there but are very subtle. On a side note I found myself in Melbourne last Saturday with some time to kill, so I went along to Vicbrew at the...

Thanks for that Ferg. I will crash chill it tomorrow when I remove the hops. Cheers, Andrew.

G'day All, Just an update. Put the dry hops in on Tuesday planning on removing them tomorrow night. Took a hydro reading just now 1.010 which gives 83% apparent attenuation. I was expecting something like 1.014-15. I pitched the 3944 at 20C last Thursday and rose it to 21C on Tuesday with the...

G'day All, I have one of the 16 amp Keg King temp controllers (fridge and heat pad) which has a hysteresis of .1, although I have it set to .2. I have the probe into the fermenter via a plastic bulkhead, also from Keg King. It seems to hold he temp within the .4 range fairly well with little or...

G'day All, Pitched a 1L starter of Wyeast 3944 last Thursday morning at 20C. Must've lost a bit more when the bung came out than I thought as I only had 19L in the fermenter so 2L of filtered tap water brought it up to 21L with an OG of 1.061. Wow the 3944 is certainly vigorous I thought it...

G'day Scon, I am no expert, not ever having anything to do with these fittings. Are they perhaps left handed thread on the brass nut, although this seems unlikely as they would tend to loosen when you did up the other thread. The only other thing I would suggest is that it may be like a John...

G'day All, Another simple thing you can do is to aerate your wort and pitch your yeast at a slightly lower temp (say 2 C) than ferment temp. The cooler wort will absorb slightly more O2. It won't make a huge difference but it will make a difference. I got this idea from a very experienced...

G'day All, Rocker just be careful that you tilt the cube on the corner away from the tap when you squeeze the air out. Otherwise the tap may pull out with a similar result to my forgetting to tighten the bung. Regards, Andrew.

Hey all, Plumbers tape is a good idea, the threads on most cubes, and fermenters for that matter, seem to have fairly loose tolerances. So some plumbers tape to take up the slack would be good. We have a 4 year old boy and 14 year old twin boys, but the 4 year old usually wakes up after 8 and...

G'day Cube, I have exactly the same set up to clean my lines, works an absolute treat. Although I think I removed the white grommet altogether. I was thinking that something like this would work as a party keg. Oxidisation would not be an issue as the intent would be to consume the beer in one...

Hmmm, good point would cause a nasty burn. I was more worried about the beer running onto the floor than thinking about getting burnt. Mind you the couple of 9% tripels (2nd BIAB brew) I had probably did not help. Note to self "make sure bung is in tightly before filling cube". Cheers, Andrew.

Thanks. All was good except when I was squeezing the air out of the cube the bung shot out across the shed (must not have screwed it all the way in when I cleaned the cube), I lost a couple hundred mL, but not too bad. Cheers. Andrew.

G'day All, Just waiting for my wort to settle before I cube it. This is my 3rd AG BIAB brew. It is a white IPA (the one brewed at the G & G BIAB demo). Started at 2045 and will be all done at 0145. I did mash for 90 minutes and boiled for 75 minutes. Pre boil aiming for 35.5 L at 1048 and got...

G'day All, I have an old single door fridge that had a freezer compartment in it. Prior to me someone cut the bottom of the freezer out, so that the freezer element now cools the whole thing. It is great as a ferment fridge as it will crash chill a batch of beer to 0C if I wish. I have hooked...

G'day ajmuzza, I think that the internals of the controller has an alarm output for high/ low temps. Which is what e1 and e2 are. The default values should be fine. I am not sure if you are asking for a description of hysteresis or not, but I will include it anyway. If you set 18C as the set...

G'day Pingelly, Welcome to the forum and the hobby. You can malt your own grain, my father did back in the 70's for his homebrew. It is a little tricky and produces that very distinctive wet grain smell. Regards, Andrew.