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Understand your point on the investment, it was more a thought if the chips are currently hard to get for the fancier controller vs the simpler one, but I get it. That's pretty much sold me on wanting the RAPT though, I assumed it was just for controlling temperature. Been a few times I've got...

Thanks for this update @KegLand-com-au . This is really exciting. As a follow up to this post from September last year KegLand Questions and Answers I was wondering if you guys were still considering the door with pre-drilled holes for taps? It's fantastic you released the shelving for the...

Well, now it sounds like if I'm willing to wait I'm going to go from no off the shelf options to 2. I could probably make space for a Series X Plus depending on how wide it actually is. I do like the idea that I wouldn't have tubing in the way when opening the door to get cans/bottles from the...

Been many years since I've posted on this forum, but have been lurking recently as I want to get back into brewing and get into kegging and can't help but give my 2 cents about what I'm missing when looking at keggerators / keezers. @KegLand-com-au I don't want a huge amount of kegs, 4 is...

I would recommend getting one with both heating and cooling circuits and not a unit that does only one or the other at any time. I'm in Canberra too, and you've probably noticed the odd weather we are currently having. Monday got to 31, but tomorrow it's only going to get to 15. Then last night...

As like a few others I'm pretty concerned at the amount of people encouraging Elderfi to wire up his own unit. Yes, the circuit is simple but jumping straight into wiring mains power with no previous electronics experience is crazy. I'll reiterate bradsbrew and say if you do make it yourself...

Last summer I had bottles of ginger beer sitting in the cupboard in the garage as I ran out of space in the brewing fridge. By the time I got to them they were definitely not as nice as the ones kept at ~12C, but they were still definitely drinkable. I've never let my fermenter get warmer than...

I bottle from the tap on primary after cold crashing (I prime bottles with carb drops). I sometimes get some sediment at the start, so I run 100ml or so into a glass before filling bottles. Occasionally I see some more sediment later in bottling but it's never much and it always settles in the...

My first and only cider brew I tried using a couple of different sweeteners. I tried using stevia and splenda and left some dry to compare the differences. I bought the little tablets which you are supposed to put in your coffee. Put one tablet in each bottle along with a carb drop on bottling...

I would rule the carb drops out as the problem as I bottle using them and have had a mix of great and average brews. I've had some odd flavours before but never had what I'd consider the infamous 'home brew twang'.

Remember if you keep your bottles cold as soon as you bottle they won't get a chance to carb up. Thinking about it, you're proably better off bottling and keeping it at 11C for a couple of weeks so they carb up and then lagering in the bottle for another few weeks after that, but I'm not sure if...

The tap king seems like an almost perfect device for home brewers that don't drink huge amounts and don't have room for a separate keg fridge. I'm not sure how many people fit into that category but I am one. My only reluctance to get one is how hard it seems to find the 12g unthreaded C02...

From memory in John Palmer's How To Brew, he does mention it's possible to do lagers with just a single fermenter. I think he even says he has done it like that previously as it is less effort and removes another step where you can go wrong. If you can keep the temperature down (after a d-rest)...

This actually turned out very nice. My wife loves it and I'd have to say it's probably one of my best brews yet. The saison definitely made it interesting, but everyone who has tried it has enjoyed it. I wish I hadn't cut the crystal quite so much though. Somewhere around 350g might have been...

Hmm, cabbage doesn't sound good. I'll avoid dry hopping with the chinook then. Might put more chinook in but at 10 minutes, and move the cascade up to 5 mins instead. I'll then dry hop with cascade, Northern Brewer (pellets) 30g @ 30mins Chinook (flowers) 50g @ 10mins Cascade (pellets) 20g @ 5...

That's right bum, the flowers were picked from a mate's garden and frozen straight away without being dried. He said he has used them in the past in this state with success, just by adding the appropriate weight to the boil. Is there something I should be looking out for if they're not dried?

Thanks guys. I'll drop the crystal to 200g. I just had a bunch already cracked and wanted to use it up (LHBS only sells in 1kg bags or bigger). Unfortunately I don't have any other malts or extract on hand and won't have time to make it to the LHBS. I don't have a chiller, but I chill the pot...

A mate of mine has given me 120g of 'fresh' chinook hop flowers (picked last season, been in the freezer since). I want to use some of these in an IPA. It will be my first IPA and first time using fresh hop flowers. I plan to use the chinook as a late addition and dry hop as I don't know the AA...

Short answer: yes there will be enough yeast :) I cold crash and then bottle. Most of my beers I've only cold crashed for 1 day and haven't had a problem with carbonation. My most recent ale I cold crashed for 3 days and have found it took a little longer to carbonate, and didn't carbonate as...

You're not alone. I've started small batch brewing so I can brew more often and have more variety, as well as improving my brewing technique! As practicalfool mentioned, I've had success just dividing full recipes. So if a recipe makes 21L and I want 7L, I just 3rd all the ingredients. Method...