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Albainian, the stepped mash will give better conversion, I found using this mash always resulted in the lowest final gravity which is what you want in this beer. You will still make a good beer using a straight infusion just not as well attenuated however I would mash at 63° for 90 minutes.

second decoction pilsner after 15 minute boil

second decoction pilsner

That was my thought to Manticle, I've left starsan in my dropper and it's dried out, when I used it next the wort tasted acidic.

1st decoction on the boil

Decoction Pilsner using 100% Pilsner malt

Perhaps a little too much starsan residue then.

Sounds like a Lacto infection, was the cube swollen? Or was there some left over wort in the dropper that had soured then dried out?

Too much technical stuff there for me Kev, that's why I like pretty graghs :P Florian is spot on, the output at the end of the day was 38 Kw and the photo was taken early in the day when it first peaked at 5Kw. As yet Ergon hasn't installed their new meter so the old one was rolling backwards...

First day with the solar power connected, very happy it was cranking out 5 Kw for most of the day.

I'm a big fan of conditioning for bottle carbing at the temp that the yeast is suited to and for a minimum of six weeks, so for an ale I will bottle condition at 18c for six weeks and for a lager I will bottle condition at 9c for 8 weeks.

German Pilsner experimenting using a double decoction mash and getting rid of some leftover hops. The change in color from the decoction was amazing, the wort ended up looking like honey. Estimated OG: 1.049 SG Estimated Color: 5.8 EBC Estimated IBU: 30.8 IBUs Est Mash Efficiency: 80.0 % Boil...

That's about it Florian, we're only getting 8 cents FIT.

Getting our 6 Kw system installed tomorrow, went for the SMA Sunnyboy 5000 inverter and 24 x Jinko panels. Hope Ergon don't kick up a stink when I take the hot water system off Tariff 33.

Bloody hell earle 18 kilo in 4 months is huge, that's a major effort. Nice results Pat, the low carb diet is working well for me too, you must be over the moon with the improvement in your diabetes. Weighed in yesterday and i'm down to 83.7 so that's an 8 kilo loss, more than happy with that.

Unusual combination of hops and malt for a wheat beer DU99, how does it taste?

weyermann sinamar would probably work well for the color adjustment.

As requestes I've moved the drinking water hose discussion to it's own thread here

No sympathy, if he was on selling to the public. If he was making for himself I feel sorry for him. We had a couple of arrests up here, $10,000 fine per still on the premises and convictions, one guy was caught with 2 stills.