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Ah ****. you just reminded me that I was supposed to put my starter in the fridge to settle out this morning. Oh well :P

I thought krausen was a sign of alcohol production and something you tried to avoid in your starters?

In "the brewery" (double garage with bar + couches): 1 fermenting fridge 1 four tap keg fridge 1 stubby fridge Inside the smallest of the four fridges is a half and half fridge/freezer split, yes I'm allowed to have the odd six pack or long neck in there :)

Why not use an external thermostat like the good old STC1000? Requires no modifications to your freezer that way.

...That's another thread that starts with no context and assumes the reader knows exactly what you're talking about. I like gadgets! Why do I need to read 42 pages of thread to learn what you're talking about? :( This tradition of contextless threads is what makes AHB intimidating to newbies...

Should this be moved to the water forum now we have one?

I've not finished my first cider yet, but mine was a 100% store-juice job with S04 - it's at day 20 and /still going/. Ignore bubbles, trust your grav readings.

I bought a new hose - it will be used for brewing only. It won't be left in the sun or with water in it. I won't use the first few litres. I boil it anyway. I'll also invest in one of those caravan filter thingos in a few weeks.

None of you have convinced me that my hose or hot water system with ruin my beer (or my insides) yet.

Anyone got a link to what the hell you're all talking about? I might be interested.

Day 18 - 1012. I think this is the slowest fermenting ale yeast I've had in three years of brewing :P

So the water passes through both filters? Fill rate looks good and I don't mind that up front cost if the maintenance is low. Where can I get replacement filters? How often do I need to clean/replace the filters?

I've tried to take the hose discussion over here

Rather than hijack Jaypes' thread here, I thought I'd start a new one on the topic of garden hose water. So, continuing on from comments in that thread: I'd be keen on more information on this. At the moment I lug half-fermenter loads from a tap in the laundry back to my kettle, but this...

I've got a fairly large cake tray - only problem with mine is the slits between the grill are a bit big and from time to time (Especially if I'm doing staged mashes) the bag gets inbetween the grills and is a bloody pain in the arse when I want to pull the bag out (it also hugely increases the...

Out kitchen fridge is (quite rightly) the least appropriate for my beer related endeavours. I have a full height freezer that I use as a 4 tap keg fridge, a fairly tall bar fridge I use for stubbies, and a half and half (the $50 guy that I started this thread about) as my ferment fridge...

I get a similar skin if I run my taps into a bucket and... forget about the bucket until I'm next back in the brewery. I don't think it's supposed to be in your fermenter and I've never seen **** like that in my fermenter, only where I've really done the wrong thing.

Bottle could've not been clean and thus you've got something else going on in their other than just yeast eating priming sugar.

Wattage? I'll take it, assuming 2000+ and you're happy to post to Vic. Edit: I'll also be a pedant and point out the quote in your signature should have "too" and not "to" in it and "Tragedy" needn't be capitalised. :P

Ohhh. Is that what those little loops on the GPOs are. I have used 100% the same parts as you (actually I have a third manually switched GPO for my stir plate) but mine is about 15,000 times messier than yours. Well done, mate!