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What are the dimensions? These look interesting

Any plans on creating smaller vessels for pressure fermenting? 12L is my full batch size but perhaps would also be useful for folk splitting batches and experimenting.

I used to find this page very helpful: https://www.thehopandgrain.com.au/malt-substitution-chart/

Anyone have luck bottling these and avoiding oxidation? I find the colour turns within about 4 weeks in the bottle

Maybe this time?

Wow, yes!

Yes please

Or brew more often!

Yup, and even 17 might be pushing it due to 4% increase in volume at boiling temp

There are ways you can get a larger batch size. High gravity brewing (where you water down - online calculators available to determine how much to add and impact on gravity). Or you could do a batch sparge in a second pot/container then add that wort back into your 19l pot

Cantillon is definitely worth a visit: https://www.cantillon.be/visites?lang=en. Belgian Brewers Museum in Grand Place moderately interesting. Most of the breweries, especially the well known ones, are outside of Brussels.

You could also consider changing the grain absorption rate. It’s not in the actual equipment profile, rather in the overall advance settings for the software. I had to play with that a few times to get it right for my grain bag mesh, patience and level of squeezing!

Why not

Hey mate, just sent you a PM. Apologies, for some reason wasn’t working earlier

Sorry mate, looks like I can’t send you a PM yet. Where in Sydney are you located?

Interested - sent you a PM

I did this recently in a NEIPA. Froze and defrosted the passion fruit then added to secondary ina hop bag for a week. The rate was 1 (homegrown, not supermarket, so about 3-4 tablespoons pulp in each fruit) per litre. Resulted in distinct aroma and not overpowering taste. Could definitely add...

Massive thanks to the sponsors and volunteers for making this happen! Excuse my ignorance, but what happens if you place second in a category? Do the top three in each get to submit those same beers to the National comp? Or just first place? Couldn’t find this info on the comp website but...