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has anyone wired up the eletech digital temp controller from beerbelly, wired up according to the wiring diagram but it doesnt kick the fridge in,all the functions light up and work but the fridge doesnt kick in,when i wired up my temp mate i am sure i had to put a couple of bridging wires in ...

screwtops red ale is my house beer, great flavour,easy beer to make with no complications. fergi

four pines kolsch is nice, this is what made me try making a kolsch. cheers fergi

ok after a lot of frustration i finally worked out why the disconnects wouldnt go back on. i noticed that the coils inside my beer fridge were really frosted up so i stuck a temperature gauge into the fridge, guess what, minus 5 degrees. i tried pressing the valve in on the keg post and found...

nice clean fridge there fingers, i think i will try the same thing on my fridge next brew. ferg

thanks for the replies guys, o ring is normal size, the disconnect is in the proper side, only thing i havent tried is the lube because i dont use it and havent got any. anything i can use that wont effect the beer that i might have lying around. cheers fergi

i have just put new rubber orings on my kegs, problem is i cant get the beer QD to go back on any of the kegs, even the ones that i didnt put new o rings on. the original reason i put new o rings on was that one of the o rings was cut. infact all my gas escaped overnight. the QD looks to be...

started my first brew in 1972 when i was doing national service, we made a brew with liquid malt,bakers yeast and i am not sure what hops we used, made it in a large plastic garbage bin ,didnt even sterilize the garbage bin, it was drinkable but only just. my age, 63, but i think i act a lot...

hi kario, welcome to AHB, keep your temp at 20 deg if you can , you can try giving the fermenter a really good swirl and then see if it kicks off, if not throw another yeast in , its your first brew and you might as well try it then you can see what its like,country brewer kits from what i...

i currently have a 40 liter kettle which i do single brews on. i am wondering what size kettle would i need for a double batch and what size gas burner would i need. i currently have a 3 ring rambo which does a single batch easily. would the rambo do a double batch or would it struggle to get...

ok i will give it a go, sounds like it may be interesting. thanks DJR FERGI

i have a kolsch sitting in my ferment fridge @ 2 deg, ccing for a couple of days at that temp, i have a blonde waiting in a cube which i usually throw in the fermenter with us05. i am wondering how the wlp 036 trub would handle the blonde instead of using the us05. probably leave half the trub...

well after 3 weeks and down to 1010 its finished,generally some people like to test after a few days but i reckon after 3 weeks and 1010 your good to go, next brew with the us05 try and keep the temp more constant, i always pitch at around 18 deg with us05 and keep it at that temp, now you...

ok thanks guys, thought it should be ok. fergi

try and get it down to at least 20, sit it in a bath or tub of water with ice, only needs to be about 6 inches deep but worth the effort. fergi

i have a blonde AG in a cube, no head space as its a 20 litre cube with about 22 liters in it, so its full right up to the cap, havent got room in my fermenting fridge for about a week so will this be ok in the cube for that length of time. fergi

good point there screwy, never thought of that. thanks fergi

ok thanks for the replys , i didnt realise the vials were plastic,. fergi

i have a kolsch fermenting at the moment. i am using a wlp 036 liquid yeast so i want to save some for my next kolsch, is it a top cropper or bottom, i was thinking of putting it in the glass vial that it came in then i can build up a starter when needed. fergi