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Hi All, I am moving house and alas have to let go of some equipment. Main things are: 2 x heating/cooling fermentation fridges with temp control enough to have 3 active fermentations 100L insulated electric kettle 2 separate elements 15A with temp adjustment (fast controllable boil) Monster...

Hi Folks, Recently bought a GD125 the 2 door Grand Deluxe Kegerator from KegKing. I have it set at 2.5c. It takes 3 minutes for the unit to climb up to 7.5c and about 3 minutes to get back down to 2.5c. Compressor cycling every 3 minutes wouldn't be doing the unit or the bills any good! I...

Hi Folks, A mate of mine is looking to go BIAB and has found a cheap URN on eBay. It's 48L with an exposed element. Doesn't look as good a build quality as the Crown or Birko options. Does anyone have experience with this unit...

Hi Folks, I have recently upgraded from my Crown Urn and built a 70L kettle for BIAB. As I no longer have my sight glass for volume measurement I now use a steel ruler. I'm trying to calibrate beersmith for use with the new equipment. I always do a mash out and then hang the bag while the...

Hi Folks, I've almost finished building my 70LT Brew kettle... however... I've mounted 2 of the ushaped uxcell elements using the aluminium housing that others have mentioned. The mounting is solid with no leaks very happy. But the aluminium housing gets very hot as it is in contact with the...

Hi Folks, Started drilling some 16mm holes in my stainless stock pot tonight. All went well except for hole number 4. The last hole! When drilling the last hole I was the hole saw must have been too hot and it flattened the teeth. So I went out and bought a cobalt 16mm hole saw which at...

Hi Folks, I currently do BIAB with a 40L crown urn. I'd like to upgrade my kettle so I can do double batches. From what I've read 70L seems to be a good size. I'd prefer to use electricity over gas but could run gas line into my garage. Does anyone have any recommendations for where to get...

Hi Folks, I use a refractometer for all pre-fermentation gravity readings and a hydrometer for post. Yesterday I went through a calibration check of my refractometer. I measured a preboil gravity of 1.047 on my refractometer (after conversion from Brix) which matched my hydrometer, all good...

Hi Folks, Been my post boil gravity recently despite all volumes looking correct. So decided it was time to recalibrate my measurements! I use BeerSmith2 and preboil and post boil volumes are almost always bang on accoring to my sightglass scale. Although, last brew as an example I was 2...

Hi Folks, So I bought a 25kg bag of Sodium Percarbonate as I'm about to run out of PBW. Lots of sites on t'internet indicate that adding a surfactant helps to improve wetting. Cleaning And Sanitation I have seen TSP mentioned and detergent. Before I starting squirting Fairy Liquid in my...

Hi Folks, I do BIAB using a Crown urn and no chill. As Im low on silicone hose I place the urn on a milk crate and run it in via a short hose. The other night when I was running my Pilsner into my cube the hose slipped off and into the cube. Looked a bit like a No chill version of a bottle of...

Hi Folks, Can anyone think of a reason why this tap wouldn't be appropriate on fermenters and cube? The standard taps are constently unscrewing on me when opening. http://www.supercheaphardware.com.au/tap-k...;utm_medium=cpc

Hi Folks, I have a strange issue with my Celli's and I wondered if anyone had any suggestions. About 50% of the time I get an inconsistent pour. The beer either jets out at an angle or spirals out causing a sort of bubble at the end of the tap. Sometimes when I first pour it can be OK and then...

Hi Folks, Towards the end of last year I finished converting a Fisher & Paykel chest freezer into a serving fridge. To match in with the rest of the unit I sprayed the seal black with appliance paint. As expected though the paint is now starting to chip off. My plan is to replace this with...

Folks, Recently moved from my fridge kegerator to a 510L chesty with collar. All good....until condensation started appearing inside the unit. Even after 2 hours at 12c ambient temp it appears and is starting to collect on the inside floor as small puddles! I have read lots of posts about...

Finally finished my Chest Freezer conversion... :D However I now need a drip tray! Does anyone have any ideas for cheap DIY drip trays? I dont really want to attach to the collar. Would prefer liquid nails or magnets but would need to be pretty light I guess.

I can't fight it any longer... Time to dip my toe in the Electric BIAB Wort! Been doing kits for some time with grains and feel it may actually be easier to lose the extract and go All Grain :beerbang: Expecting my 40L Crown from Ross to arrive tomorrow Dropping a bit cooler...