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I always add Epsom Salts to get the Magnezium up to 15 for my water. I think you are one sided and out of whack on your addition. Do you know what you want your water to look like? that is the first place to start. Do not believe the first thing you read. Not all water profiles are true...

Well you are correct that it is different then sparging. The only difference is the amount of water and the temp you start at. More water or less grain depending on how you look at it. Either way you will start with the water at a lower temp. As has been pointed out any of the brew...

Have to disagree with you there. A sanitizer can be effective in correct proportion and be fine diluted with many liters or gallons of fresh wort. The problem with some chemicals is the effect they have in very small quantity to our beer. Bleach is one of those that has been shown to present...

If your water is fit to drink then the soda water should be also. Just remember plain soda water does not taste very good. That is why they dump loads of sugar in soda pop. Only thing I can add is it takes lots of hose to balance a soad keg. If you try to serve with a short hose and high...

Couple different kinds. Some screw out some need a special tool. none of them are easy for a tool impaired person. Some guys just clean with a coupling and turn the keg upside down flowing cleaner in that way. The risk of infection is higher that way. Unless you really want 50 liters of the...

Got to be a business op here. Can not be much harder then the custom add button business. All one needs is a source for flat plain caps, a way to print them, and the dies to convert the printed blanks to caps. Does anyone still make add buttons? OR whatever you call them in Oz.

Sounds like one of you should start a store. If all the competition is way too expencive you will make a killing selling much more for less. That is what one guy did over here. He got tired of having to drive 40 miles round trip to get brewing supplies. He converted an office in his auto...

Far as I know not all seals you get from suppliers are the old food grade ones that were used originally. Most of the new ones are the same material that you can get at the plumbing store. I believe they are called Buna-n. Size As568a Dash number 109, 111, and 417. I bet they are called...

As you may have already found out. Raw Wheat is not the problem some make it out to be. I BIAB and have never had any trouble with Raw Wheat. I do process it a bit different, as I do not have a grain mill. I guess it works out to about the same as a step mash. Efficiency should be...

Ok so I have you going and I bet you think this is about our fool game of basketball in the USA. No, I was wondering if any of you are brewing a lawn mower beer now that fall is fast approaching on you? I have read inquiries about wheat beers, and while I feel every beer style is in season, I...

I bought some because that was all the had. Never did see any difference. But I did not let the beer set around and that was when I was just starting.

Can not stand XP. Also I am not sure my system would run it. I do everything I need with my old system and 98se.

Will not install in win 98 se. I know I am in the last century. About to fix that by getting an old Mac.

OK all you Opera experts. I am running win98SE and downloaded Opera and I think it was 10.6? It worked fine until toady (about 3 or 4 days) and I tried to open it and got a message saying it had trouble with the file ouniansi.dll. I did a search and found nothing that helped. The Opera...

So is this about burnt extract and not burnt wort? It is easy to burn extract if you dump it in and do not stir like a mad man. Even if you drizzle it in and do not stir well you can end up with pure extract on the bottom of the pot and burn it. That said I have had extract bun on the bottom...

Wheat grain and wheat extract is not a one to one substitute. Wheat extract has 40 to 60% barley in it. Best to use a brewing program to figure it out. A bit of reading from suppliers or malt companies will not hurt. For a program do some searching and I am sure you will find a good free one...

Last thought, the tubing you use may have a different flow then the one they use. It all has to do with how smooth the inside is. How well you coil it and what fittings you use will also have an effect. Dont forget the supply tubing to hook it to the water as well as the exit tubing to get...

What was the question again? Easy answer is email them and ask what the specks are for balancing a tap system. The coil will effect how the beer pours so they should know. If that does not work I remember finding information on balancing taps that had a factor for different size and type of...

So why will more beer stale quicker then less beer?

I had a bad lid and it leaked out of the gas relief. The valve was OK it was the seat in the lid that was bad. I was able to fix it. Can not remember what I did. I am sure it involved some kind of polishing of the seat. The best way to find leaks and brew good beer is use Star San. It is a...