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Brewers, on this delightful sunny afternoon I've found myself in the shed for a summer clean out. I've uncovered my old glycol chiller and the time has come for it to go. It was working fine until switched off for a few days some years ago. When back on it simply didn't cool down anymore. I'm...

I'm planning on brewing a Beamish Stout clone (BYO) tomorrow and received the grains a few days ago. I built the recipe on BeerSmith 1.4 and didn't notice a problem till I upgraded. Thanks to the nice visual style indicators in 2.0 I noticed that the recipe colour was strangely high, even for a...

OK, so continuing the shed cleanout, I have a 150 litre chest freezer that gurgles a lot and produces a little bit of frost inside but no longer functions properly. It might go ok with a regas, or it could make a great party esky, it it might make an ok fermentation cabinet when couple with a...

I've just upgraded the cooling system in the home brewery and now have some fridges that work well but need to go. There are two or three fridges that have shelving and other inner bits removed to make maximum space for kegs and fermenters. They all work well but were free to me so I'll pass...

Fellow brewers, for a number of years I've had good service from my glycol chiller. Recently it spent a few weeks turned off while I was away, and when turned back on the compressor ran constantly and the temperature of the glycol stayed at ambient. I spoke to a fridgie on the phone (just a...

A funny thing happened on the way home from work today ... OK, not so funny, but noticed a sign that read "barleycornbrewers.com.au" along Huntingdale Rd a couple of minutes from home while I was literally ending a long work week. Had a look at the web site and it turns out they claim to be...

A good friend of mine is on some pretty heavy duty medication which means no consumption of alcohol. This got me to thinking about some basic physics and that alcohol evaporates at less than 100C. Without getting into the science of it, I tried a quick and imprecise method of lowering alcohol...

The machine has been a 'work in progress' for about the last 6 years, and is now well into incarnation #5. We are having some beer enthusiasts over this Sunday for a bbq, so took the time to tidy up the RIMS rig for a bit of show and tell. Top left is the mash tun, to the right is the...

Ok, so following on from the thread on keg carbonation, it makes sense to me to use the glycol cooling plant I have as the basis for a cool room. I wonder if anyone has tried this before? Would I be better off using panels to 'extend' an existing fridge instead? I'm guessing a cool room would...

Fellow brewers, I've been brewing for many years and kegging for about the last 4. Less than 12 months ago I bought a glycol chiller, which means my kegs stay at room temp and are force chilled when pouring. That all works ok. But an observation (not something I was aware of when I kept the...

Fellow brewers, If brewing were an extreme art then this is at the extreme end, so if you are not a crazy inventor or a computer geek or a bling bling hardware builder who wants a riduculously high tech control system, then look away ... But if you are interested in computer PID control then...

Here at the home of the HERMAN brewing rig we have celebrated brew # 180 with a new configuration that rocks, IMHO. :super: For most of its life, HERMAN has been a HERMS rig. After lots of thinking, we've built a rims heating chamber and transformed the plumbing arrangement and now...