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As usual, you're all full of crap :P I've been using mine for 3 years now and the lids havent cracked, so it must be all of your fault! ;)

What a load of rubbish. You don't need to do any of that. My setup gets 25L to 18C in 3 mins after flame out. Sorry but I've never had a clogging problem.

Geez, certainly glad to hear your open to suggestion and havent made up your mind already at all. Plate chillers are the LEAST prone to blocking of any kind of chiller on the market. Every major brewery in the world chills with a plate chiller. Anything else is just a cheap-ass compromise. My...

I'm not sure what it might be, sorry :( My experience tends to agree with mje though, I make zero effort to separate any kind of trub or break material post boil, chuck it all in the fermenter. I often even add a bunch of hops toward the end of fermentation, straight into the fermenter (dry...

I'm pretty sure bitterness compounds are only extracted from hops at high temperatures...like... boiling temperatures...maybe hops have nothing to do with it and there's something else happening?

That maybe so, but Strange Brew made the same point I was thinking while reading this thread. The frozen water and frozen saline will be at the exact same temperature. The OPs impression is equivalent to thinking that no matter the ambient temperature, water will stay at 100C until outside...

Hops that old? a few months? you serious? I'm still on a big bag of hops I bought 2 years ago and theyre tasting fine... just keep them sealed in the freezer.

go 100% up to about 1.070. Mash at 65, put all the hops in at 10min, ferment with US05.

I'm not sure how much different rehydrating makes, all my american pale ale's and done with US05 and people seem to like them. I've also used plenty of liquids, but only when the occasion calls for it (uk beers, belgians, wheats...). P.S. 1.46L a day isn't a drunk, at least not on this forum. I...

yeah i go over 19L. Theyre 5gal (even stamped on them if you look). 5gal = 18.9L, so they should be close.

32 jet mogno will be fine. a 10 jet boils 100L without breaking a sweat.

they seem to cost more than a march pump...are they worth it? I prefer electricity powered ones that having to cart around pump to run it.

it's acid based. If you don't want to waste expensive starsan, try vinegar or mix up some citric acid...

this has come up a few times. A bloke a while ago posted a pic of his suitcase with about 20 vacuumed pellet bags in it, said it posed no problems.

it's also 1/4" OD tubing... who the hell uses that? kinda pointless going JG I think if you have to stick one of those barbs in every socket anyway...

http://www.betterworldbooks.com/product-id-0937381926.aspx coulda saved another couple $ ;)

Do all liquid yeasts always attenuate more than dry yeasts? this is the first I've heard of it...

OK, another one on the wagon. I thought this thread was the old "they don't make em like they used to" ******** that you read all the time, but after a 6er of FY bought in newcastle on the weekend, and trying it on tap at a couple different pubs, I gotta say it seems like something weird has...

it mightve just been CO2 coming out of solution even, which shouldn't affect things...

+1 definitely don't worry about this if you're new at making beer, don't even need to worry too much about shaking and stuff, the difference will be SFA really. Just brew like normal...once your into it a bit you might want to try it to see if you can even notice any difference...