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Good stuff! I got mine working with a second hand box unit a/c, but the fan failed after a month or so. I now have a Kelvinator KWH15CMC, and it's much quieter with less vibration. It's only got analogue controls, and on it's lowest setting the cool room gets down to 15°c. See the above Greg -...

Well I've now picked up a small cooling only window/wall mount air conditioner. I think I can get it through the cool room and shed wall, so it transfers heat from the cool room outside the shed. This should avoid further heating the oven that is the shed in summer, as well as being easier on...

So my cool room is mostly sealed, aside from a gap above the door. The brewing temps are pretty good for not having any active cooling, but the weather also isn't as hot as it was. The fermenters are staying about 6-8 degrees under the peak temperature in the shed, which is certainly a good help...

Awesome - looks way better finished than mine. I've just been spraying expanding foam into the gaps, and I don't have the overlap on the door. I think I'll definitely have to add mechanical cooling to mine eventually, but with the heatwave over it's sitting at good temperatures as it is!

This thread still comes up on a google search for pinlock threaded disconnects - so for the benefit of anyone else finding this on google craftbrewer has these disconnects: Gas - http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=820 Beer - http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=819...

Check valve is a non-return valve yes. Added sugar to keg to naturally carb, quite probably with less than the recommended amount of headspace. Some of my kegs have a shorter gas post than others, so this one would possibly have been filled up to the bottom of the gas post. Don't know what the...

That would help in winter - but I've always found a heat mat a cheap enough and easy option. It's always been cooling that I've had issues with. I also considered the idea of placing the fridge through the cool room wall - so that the rear coils vent outside the coolroom. The fridge might not...

There is a bit of a discussion about store it cold here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1936626 Basically it looks like there are some features designed into the commercial cool room units that residential a/c will lack, but the coolbot tries to compensate for. There are some concerns...

Good point! I was considering I could put my dead fridge inside and it'd be more insulation. And I could disassemble the panels and reassemble them for a smaller space, but it's currently a very nice jigsaw puzzle :)

I'm a little sceptical of their claims - "patent pending technology that just became available in 2006".... But in theory the coils in a split system go much lower than the target room temperature. I can see the efficiency suffering (and heat capacity needing to be de-rated) but that is probably...

I realise I didn't say in the original post that I'm normally brewing at 18-21 degrees, and so ordinarily not much cooling is required (might even be the average ambient temp). But if I'm spending any money I want to make sure I can brew any beer style I want. Yep, maybe that is the way to go...

So I scored an old garden shed made of 50mm Cool Room sandwich insulation panels, which I'm hoping to assemble into a fermentation chamber inside my shed. (It's an un-insulated tin shed so it's an oven in summer and too cold in winter. Before I scored the cool room panels I was planning to add...

Yes I added nutrient. I originally went to the LHBS to look at nutrient. (They had some 'Tronozyml', but they suggested I wouldn't need to buy yeast because the packaging said "Just add to brew". I didn't trust that was true, so I said "I'll just buy the other nutrient and some yeast"). When I...

Cool Luek - thanks for the info. My test batch seems to have suffered a stuck ferment, and I wanted the fermenter for more beer so I sampled a bit before I turfed it. It tastes mostly of sugar, but slightly fruity, reminiscent of wine. Sort of like a Stoli Lemon Ruski tastes of wine not vodka...

G'day all, I've been naturally carbing a keg (I've forced carbed previous kegs and wanted to see how it goes), and decided it was time to hook it up. I plugged it in to the gas and some beer flowed about 15cm back in the line. Since it seemed to have stopped there and I have a check valve I...

Interesting! I guess the reverse osmosis path would be even more interesting if it were clearly legal. I would have thought that on an industrial scale distilling would be less expensive.

Thanks for the insight Maheel. I seem to have missed the era where products of this nature were available, but I've still got hope better results are possible. Although at this stage I'm expecting my current batch to taste pretty awful from peoples reports. I did figure it wasn't going to cost...

So from your experience it wasn't worthwhile, but was it at the point where it was a lost cause or is it possible to improve the recipe/process to get something worthwhile? Yes I'd like to drink spirits (and I've still got some that I actually went to a bottle-o for!), but I'm also interested...

I've gotten into homebrewing quite a bit over the past year, and I've been nearly exclusively drinking that which I brew. I've done beers and ciders, but variety is the spice of life and I've been looking into other alcoholic beverages. Now hobby distilling is illegal, but a bit of thinking...

Ok, that's interesting - I thought the electricity costs might be higher than that, but I've never measured. It's going to take a lot of brews at a saving of 50c a piece to pay any investment in parts off. When I do the (rough) math on the heat energy you need it does come in at a low figure...