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  1. elcarter

    Cold filtered beer still hazy?

    I'm a little stumped not something I've encountered before. Filtered a few light coloured beers with great success but this kolsch is giving me grief. Usual process: I've let it sit for a week on the yeast cold crashed 3 days and then another week in the keg. Failed to clear so I used my backup...
  2. elcarter

    Scorched 15a plug

    Check the pins on the the other side. I bet they need a clean. Electrical contact cleaner, scotch bright " green" and tooth brush. Get it nice and bright. Wait for the contact cleaner to evaporate before plugging back in. Replace cord and test. Switch off and feel for any heat in small...
  3. elcarter

    The Grand Deluxe is coming

    I know Italy makes a huge amount of stainless appliances eg ovens ect. I wonder if the "Italian made" is just the body and the compressor is imported and fitted.
  4. elcarter

    Fresh Wort Kit for a Little Creatures style pale ale

    Get back into brewing for real :D BIAB http://www.beerandbrewerawards.com.au/_blog/Magazine/post/Meet_the_Brewer_Alex_Troncoso_%E2%80%93_Little_Creatures/
  5. elcarter

    ADL Swap / Sell modified ferment fridge.

    Fridge just finished it's last brew. So if anyone had a slight interest nows the chance before I fill it up again. I'm happy to go for outright sale and delivery within Adelaide metro if that fancy's you.
  6. elcarter

    I screwed up my grain order

    Is it a see through sealed plastic bag kind of sack? I can usually see the layers of each grain addition. You may still be able to visually see part where it transitions to the wheat, well roughly I guess. Might give you some more options if you can separate it.
  7. elcarter

    Herms Coil Sizing

    Good info here, I went to a larger 20L urn when the 10L died. I added more coil but the water mass is slow to heat up and my ramp times increased dramatically. Also need to select a degree below desired temp to counteract the small overshoot. Now modifying to displace / reduce water to help...
  8. elcarter

    Fridge with freezer as fermentation chamber

    I think there would be merit in this. Before I did the mod I did actually put Frozen Ice buckets to help crash chill, was particularity helpful in reducing the time it took.
  9. elcarter

    Fridge with freezer as fermentation chamber

    It's no good for much more than storage. The freezer gets very cold to luke warm in quick succession. Hops will hate it. I had ~ -5 deg and then in summer the top compartment got to + 25 before the stc picked up the change. "probe is in the wort" so will slow fluctuations down. I managed to...
  10. elcarter

    100l sspots

    I got mine from handy imports. 50cm x 50cm. Has done the job for some time. Edit; Handys no longer have the pot I got. Craft brewer's 100L pot is the go.
  11. elcarter

    yeast starter step up

    Just my personal opinion but I'd only resort to reviving the bottle yeast if the yeast in that stubbie cant be economically purchased from a local brew store. Feels like to much stuffing around and possible failure to make the $10-$12 saving worth it. Every time we've tired to re culture the...
  12. elcarter

    ADL Swap / Sell modified ferment fridge.

    Howdy, I have a Chronical fermenter that has sat in the office without beer in it. My ferment fridge although supremely awesome at fermenting 60L of beer is too small. I would like to swap for a upright all fridge / Freezer or possibly sell to use the cash to obtain one. This "ferment chamber...
  13. elcarter

    Galaxy hop shortage?

    So much face palm....
  14. elcarter

    Galaxy hop shortage?

    This explains a few orders I just got.... I have a question to the AHB brewing community... How does one think the multitude of KG's of hops are transported from one continent to another? Are they in refrigerated containers held at a constant temperature? I know my large 5kg bags are...
  15. elcarter

    Upright Fridge or Freezer?

    I believe this idea that your freezer may preternaturally fail over a fridge is due to requesting temperatures above it's designed parameters within quick succession. As in you induce more on / off cycles quicker than the engineers designed the system to perform when you only cool to 18 deg...
  16. elcarter

    Upright Fridge or Freezer?

    Freezer has better insulation so can be more energy and cooling efficient depending on era. A modern up right freezer that's of decent build quality "eg westing house, whirlpool ect" is the preferred option if money was of little consequence. Often they will be few available and be expensive...
  17. elcarter

    Wanted: STC 1000 asap (vic)

    I'm sure your all over it but for the sake of keeping another brewer alive to brew another day. 100% you know what amperage's your going to playing with? Got your high amperage relays sorted ect? Feel free to tell me to piss off your good, just seen a few do some pretty extraordinay wiring of...
  18. elcarter

    Festival of sacrifice.

    People are starving in that country and they pull that ****, I can't imagine what 300,000 buffalo would look like alive. Not a fan of this religion thing.
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