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  1. wide eyed and legless

    RAPT Pill Help please

    Transfer this post to Kegland Q & A. See if they can help, it seems to be a regular problem with the Pill.
  2. wide eyed and legless

    BEERFEST 2024

    You forgot to add, "We will let you know the format 10 days before entry closes" I have had great feedback from entrants and judges, and I am proud of how beerfest was run this year. I would hardly call 66% of expected entries successful! 90 to 100% is successful. Success comes from marketing...
  3. wide eyed and legless

    GUTEN

    Exactly! The probe in the SVB'S can only be placed on the base of the mash tun. At least one or two probes need to be in the mash itself. Monitoring the two or in my case three probes will give me a better indication of what is happening in the actual mash, the most important temperature which...
  4. wide eyed and legless

    What are you brewing 2024

    As a nod to Timothy Taylor Landlord brewed Nancy Naylor Landlady, 12 days in the bottle and not turning out too bad. Be a difficult one to replicate without the yeast strain used. I am starting to feel that when cloning a beer there is a relationship between the hops and the yeast. Or is it the...
  5. wide eyed and legless

    GUTEN

    Hip Hop's Don't Stop. Well, the heat is in the bottom of the mash tun and you are trying to control the temperature in the mash, by the time the trickle reaches the mash it is cooler. So keeping the flow going full bore the temperature remains constant. If you are using the overflow pipe get rid...
  6. wide eyed and legless

    GUTEN

    I don't bend down, I have mine at a height I can program my system quite easily. I have a hoist to lift the grain basket, mainly because I have a 65litre Hop Cat, but I do use the hoist to lift my 40-litre Guten grain basket I then squeeze the bejesus out of it getting less than 500 ml loss to...
  7. wide eyed and legless

    GUTEN

    Never found any reason to change anything on the Guten control, keeps a steady temperature throughout the mash. I think the trick is to keep the return pipe on full flow. I have 2 x 400 ml probes adjacent to each other in the top of the mash 8 mins in. 32 mins in 58 mins in
  8. wide eyed and legless

    Water report for rainwater, anyone??

    There is enough magnesium in the grain for yeast metabolism during fermentation, but in saying that both Martin Brungard and John Palmer advise putting a couple of grams in with the other salts you are going to need. But I would heed the advice of others tank water could have undesirable...
  9. wide eyed and legless

    Beer excise tax killing off Aussie craft breweries

    Not just craft brewers, 50% of businesses will fail within three years irrespective of the nature of the business. I believe we as home brewers notice the craft brewery failures. And in general, these are ordinary folk being led by their heart, not their mind. Hobbies can turn into exceptional...
  10. wide eyed and legless

    What are you brewing 2024

    Friday I brewed a dry Irish Stout Single volume, no sparge. 21 litres into fermenter. OG 1,043 FG 1,011 ABV 4.2 IBU 43.7 SRM 37.1 Mash pH 5.4 4.5 kg Veloria Schooner. 0.50 kg Flaked Barley. 0.050 kg Roast Barley. 0.250 kg Chocolate Malt Late mash tun addition 0.250 kg J. Whites Dark Crystal...
  11. wide eyed and legless

    Water report for rainwater, anyone??

    I don't use it for brewing just hydroponics, I add 'pH Up' to get the rainwater to seven. Depending on what you are brewing and how you brew will determine the salts you are going to use. Your base malts will act as a buffer lowering your pH probably further than you would be aiming for. In my...
  12. wide eyed and legless

    Water report for rainwater, anyone??

    For my rainwater, I use 5.6 pH as the starting pH this is for hydroponics. Rainwater is lacking in minerals so it comes down to what the tank is manufactured from, plastic, galvanised, or concrete. Plastic would keep it neutral galvanised will add some zinc and concrete will add lime raising the...
  13. wide eyed and legless

    BEERFEST 2024

    More tongue in cheek, love to know how many individuals entered though and how many of those are club members. Good luck to all the entrants anyhow.
  14. wide eyed and legless

    What are you brewing 2024

    I would like to know what temperature Coopers ferment at, high-end or low? My gut feeling is the higher end because of the flavour the yeast brings to the beer. May try a Coopers Pale next though my choice is the Sparkling out of the two.
  15. wide eyed and legless

    What are you brewing 2024

    Had two attempts at Coopers Sparkling, first was a miserable failure, tried Morgan's yeast believing that as Coopers owned Morgan's it could be related? Wrong. The second attempt harvested yeast from Coopers Pale Ale, (thanks Mark) what a cracker this beer is. I have enjoyed Coopers Sparkling...
  16. wide eyed and legless

    BEERFEST 2024

    It isn't about being thankless, what it's about is being informed of the format of a comp 5 weeks before the comp entries are shut down! It certainly gives members of the club a good heads up as Grumpy Paul states, a few months in advance for members, but any else wanting to enter then 5 weeks...
  17. wide eyed and legless

    BEERFEST 2024

    There is not enough exposure and not enough time to get some brews together.
  18. wide eyed and legless

    Making a good head that maintains to the end

    Steep overnight in cold steeping, or steeping in 76C or thereabouts for 20 minutes. But remember to take into account the steeping liquor when working out your volume.
  19. wide eyed and legless

    New strains from Fermentis

    They also have one for low-alcohol beers but are not yet into the little sachets.
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