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I really appreciate your commitment to phosphate free cleaners! Thanks :)

Speaking of food grade lube, how do you apply that and keep things sanitary? Does it stay lubricated after subsquent perc and sanitiser applications, or do you lube each brew? Cheers, B

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I remember when getting my stainless steel fermenter from Brewtech they recommended trisodium phosphate clean before use. Is that the way to ensure new stainless gear is clean of residues etc? I just bought a tri-clover butterfly valve for it from Kegland, and wonder if I should use TSP or...

I remember when getting my stainless steel fermenter from Brewtech they recommended trisodium phosphate clean before use. Is that the way to clean the Kegland tri-clover butterfly valve, or is soaking in percarbonate is enough. The collar where the valve lever connects (and thus the lever too)...

I was cleaning out my bottles and thinking of selling the Grolsch. I found 30 brown ones. I see them selling on Ebay (mostly US Ebay) a lot, like $10 a bottle as 'vintage', but look just like mine, which I don't think are prehistoric. Have they become collectible? Seems a bit crazy :) Cheers...

Howdy, I have ended up with this FWK from All Inn Brewing a couple of months ago. Interestingly, it's not on their website any more - maybe discontinued now. But here's a description: "Widowed Butcher is a spectacular Russian Imperial Stout. Formidable but with real richness behind that deadly...

I have used my Thermomix blender function to do several very short pulse blends to crush small (250g) amounts of grain when I was doing extract plus spec grain. Would be a slight pain on 3-5 kg but doable I guess :)

howdy, A gadget-orientated friend just got the Picobrew Z2 delivered, the new iteration of the zymatic. Was wondering if anyone with experience in Picobrew has any tips for recipe adaptation? I’ve read brewhouse efficiency can be around 65%, and assume boiloff rate would be minimal through...

Looks clever! I am a fan of simplicity though, and wonder about having to clean the various valves and chiller. I was surprised they use little tri clamps on all the hose fittings?

Thanks all! I agree it's a balance of price and quality, I don't need pro-level gear but clearly it's sensible to pay for something of reasonable quality :) Will follow up the suggestions.

I am thinking of pimping out my basic 14g chronical with a butterfly dump valve and a sampling valve for bottling etc. Maybe some TC barb adaptors etc for pressurised transfers. The squeeze handle butterfly valves look easier to use? Any recommended places here or direct from China? Cheers, B

For the non-coeliacs, and the brave coeliac risk-takers, adding Clarity Ferm to normal barley wort with the yeast is a possible option.

I exchanged some fb messages with the Brewery. They don't have capacity to mill it for homebrewers, and said in their small system they had sometimes used a blender because the grains are so fine (leading to a much finer result which is ok). I would obviously not want to run it through my...

Does the grain come milled? Cheers, B

I recently did Nottingham vs Windsor in a mid-strength English Bitter with lots of hops and found the hop aromas seemed very muted in the Windsor, compared to the Nottingham. My next brew will be London ESB or S-04. Any experiences or thoughts on which will bring out hops more? Second order of...

This one looks identical to the older Turbo 500 boiler to me (30L), other than having no identifying marks on the boiler at all, assuming the T500 used to have these indented elements I haven't seen before. The tap is identical as well. The box was marked Item QU008881. As shown in the photo...

Hi folks, The LHBS got a mysterious unbranded 30 litre boiler in, and I was gonna buy it for a steal. But it made me wonder if others have acquired unbranded boilers and what their experience has been. I'm kind of wondering whether it's going to be essentially identical to a mangrove jacks...

If the Guten is anything like my Robobrew v1, the temperature at the probe (next to the element in my case) will be dramatically different from the temperature inside the cooling mash (like maybe 5 degrees from memory if I have miscalculated strike temp in particular). I would stir and measure...

I have been applying this technique to PET bottles. Just posted a musing about some questions arising over here if anyone's interested :) https://aussiehomebrewer.com/threads/bottling-from-warm-cool-keg-at-pressure-tips.99852/ Cheers, B