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Just a thought, but if I woke in the middle of the night with heart issues I would be asking a doctor what I was doing wrong, not a bunch of amateur brewers.

I had to leave mine unattended for a fortnight over Christmas. Get a battery powered timer to go on a tap in the backyard, and hook that up to a dripper system. Worked like a charm, and have continued to use the very same rig even since arriving home for the veggies. Takes a lot of the headache...

SWMBO loved the penguins here: http://www.penguintours.lowhead.com/ And the Cadbury factory...

You're asking in the wrong place, maybe try a backpacker hostel? Couldn't help myself...

Price on the sugar?

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Goes great in soups, such as potato and leek. Or we used to make chicken and leek pie, is delicious. Can probably substitute for onion in a lot of recipes if you want to experiment, similar kind of aroma and texture, but not as strong.

You'll find most do it in a similar manner to this: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5842600/claims.html Inline injection of CO2, but probably outside the realms of reality on a small scale...

Major breweries collect and reuse CO2, but use big collection bladders and compress to store in liquid form. So not ridiculous to ask about doing at home. Would probably want to make sure you're using non-return valves as could gum up a regulator pretty easily, and if you could fabricate up an...

Just had a thought, if one were to encourage yeast growth as opposed to alcohol production by maintaining aeration, you might be able to keep alcohol low but still maintain the same body... Would have to very closely monitor gravity to cut off the air at an appropriate point, and keeping up the...

Best reason I have heard for changing the flag? All the bogans who have hijacked it and had it tatooed on their bodies will need to have it removed. Disgraceful some of the rubbish you see people doing while wearing the flag as a cape, as though whatever they do while wearing it makes them...

I'd expect to drive off 4 parts of water for every part of alcohol if you're just boiling, that should give some indication of completion. If I were doing it, I'd go with an underattenuated mash and dilute, and if that didn't get a low enough alcohol would much prefer to remove it under vacuum...

Centrifuged beer will have the yeast pulled to the bottom. Edit: Ok, so that is still using beer as an example. From http://www.wyeastlab.com/com-yeast-harvest.cfm So, 1L of pure yeast solids by that would weigh 1.25kg. So is denser than wort.

Don't think they would be the best idea for use with beer, they're not rated for boiling liquids, and beer is reasonably acidic. Differential pressure is best for most volume measurements around a brewery (when you make an assumption of gravity), but might be overly expensive unless you're...

Dimethyl sulphide. It smells like cooked vegetables, creamed corn etc. Created by thermal decomposition of s-methyl methionine present in malt and driven off during boil, and condensate will cause it to drip back in, but sounds like you've got it sorted. This is just one reason why hot stands...

Sorry, I didn't realise the air you had connected was for wort aeration, just used to the way things are done at the big breweries. If you only have a wimpy fish tank pump it won't be powerful enough for what I was trying to describe, and would be connected at the bottom of the tank anyway. That...

Good point. On this small scale you might be able to get away with using air top pressure to transfer between fermenters rather than a pump, and still do away with a lot of valves by just isolating each end of the tank header then opening the two tanks transferring between. Either way, you'll...

That valve count seems excessive. If you place outlet valves from fermenters close to the CIP/beer out loop, you should minimise dead legs, and then just do the entire pipework loop with as few valves as possible flushing all of that section of pipework every time it is used. Will mean longer...

Hygiene will make or break this project, don't underestimate it. If you read about people's experiences with commonly used full bore stainless ball valves, they need to be broken open frequently, heat and sanitiser alone only go so far and they do eventually foul up and are easy to discount as...

Pride of Ringwood, Super Pride and Cluster are pretty much the workhorses of a lot of commercial breweries for their cheap bittering and availability. But heavy competition. Maybe collaborate with some micros and enter into a contract to supply a set quantity of a variety that they want rather...