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85% at pre boil isn't hard to believe with a fine crush and sparge of some sort.

Tried cube hopping on few occasions. Didn't find it added much aroma so stopped bothering. The mini boil after chilling is the best of both worlds IMO (convenience of NC and aroma/flavour of late/flame out hops).

Plus if you build a collar you can mount the digital controller on the face of it... unless you hate the look of it. Adjust temp without opening keezer or fiddling with the thermostat.

How much would people be willing to pay for an app which offered the whole deal?

Crazy idea but I'd try the sponsors :) Or beerbelly.com.au does a good setup. I'd say you'd need a medium pressure regulator to get the most of it.

There's also the option to do a post chill mini boil. No late or flame out hops. NC as per normal. Chill NC cube to say 4C. Draw off 4L, bring up to boil and add your late additions (ie 15,10,0 or whatever) as per normal. Strain the boiled wort into your fermentor, add the remaining chilled...

Co2 2.6kg (full) - $199 19L corny $65 Beer/gas hose $5 Keg King should offer free shipping for these.. Cheapo regulator $40 (ebay ?) Old fridge $0-40 on ebay/gumtree (patience will yield results) Chi-company ($6 disconnects x 2, $3 bronco tap, what ever else you need) plus $15 shipping OR...

Harris Scarfe seems to have big discounts on kitchen items all the time if you're after a brand name Otherwise I get most of my cheapo gadgets from dealextreme

Did look at these few months ago when I was setting up my keezer... luckily common sense prevailed and I ended up with Perlicks :) Couldn't be happier with the pour and the price wasn't much more than these ebay ones. Anyone tried the KK Perlick knock offs???

If you're really keen on larger volume... as I've said before just use 2 x bigW pots ... split the grain into each, that should give you the room to use up to 7kg grain and brew either more beer or higher gravity beers.

AHB Name - Beer - Attendance. 1. Fenton - Attending - Option 1 2. Trippers - Attending - Option 1 3. Luke C - Attending - Option 1 4. 5. Shane R - Option 1 (providing its not $40 between 20 people) 6. Fikuss - 7. Iamozziyob - 8. WarmBeer - iPA - Yes, attending - Option 1 9. Wolfman- Robust...

Many of us are swap n going CO2 bottles now, in Melbourne at least... $25 for 2.6kg.

Does the creamer make much difference?

Probably be cheaper to get new control flow Perlicks from the states than buy an adaptor locally !!!

Visited the new Masters near work and found some grade hose http://www.barfell.com.au/pressure-hose.htm (see TMP II) I've been using the 6mm ID and it fits nicely on 1/4" barbs (unlike 5mm stock beer line!!) for both CO2 and beer. They also have a good range of push in fittings for the 6mm...

Try Wyeast 2112 and you'll have yourself a Viennese Steam Beer :D If I was using 100% Vienna I'd be using a lager yeast (S23 if you want dry, 2 packets).

I quite like the wyeast cal lager (2112?) ... ferments really clear and clean at 15C.

Mrmalty's yeast calculator will probably say you're underpitching. 1L starters into each 20L jerry can should be fine. Enjoy!!

http://www.dresselbrew.com/Keg_Info.htm suggests all 19/32" However, I believe some are NPT and some BSP which might explain the incompatibility

Not to derail the good idea of getting home made posts ... but you can get them < $10 with a poppet from the US, shipping pretty cheap per part if you bought enough. eg http://www.chicompany.net/index.php?main_p...roducts_id=1137 PS Thread is 19/32"