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"As for the stout. It's still a weizenbock." sorry. Had a few more beers once I got home that afternoon. I remember you telling me that now. I'm usually aiming for low 30's to the kettle, so my 10 to 15 minutes is way too fast. I'll slow that down and aim for 50 minutes next brew. Great tips...

Now I'm thinking my run off and sparge are too fast. I think my face must look a bit like Sergeant Schulz in you logo Warra. I fly sparge most of the time. and probably only take about 10 to 15 minutes total. I then leave a 5lt jug under the outlet while the boil begins and usually collect...

Sorry I forgot to add my comments directly on this thread. I mounted my mill on a large timber base so that I could use my battery drill and I positioned it on the base so that with the drill in place it is balanced for weight. Works very well. It achieves a good crush without any husk...

Morning Les, You mention better efficiency since slowing the sparge. How slow are we talking for total sparge time? Do you stir or cut the bed during this sparge? I noted that Sean had the cutting blades rotating slowly up at Murrays on Saturday. He said it was to avoid channelling. Your...

Don't stress peeps. I'm a sparky and that photo was taken during testing trials with water. Its all been made safe since. The thermocouple wires are extra low voltage have very strong insulation and thus safe. Thanks for the tip on the pump MHB. I worked it out not long after this photo was...

I got my PIDs for $16 and the thermocouples for $17 from china. Details below. They were so cheap I bought a second one just to monitor the wort temp as it comes out of the mash tun. this way I can monitor the lag in the HERMS. Thermocouple came with a 1/2 inch thread. I used this with a...

PS. How could I forget that it was Vinnie Cilurzo?????????????????

The presentation is on the page but not the recording. lots of other great presentaitons there too. http://anhc.com.au/images/pressos/Dry%20Hopping%20Techniques%20-%20Vinnie%20Cilurzo.pdf

Hi guys, I started my all grain brewing with a HERMS simply because it looked like a really cool way to do it. I built a lot of my gear. It was great. The only concern I would have with doughing in cold, is that you run the risk of not getting the expected unfermentables from a high mash temp...

It might work, but if you wanted to do it that way you are probably better off doing it in a 'better bottle' or carboy so you can visually gauge how much mixing you are getting. Just a note. I don't shake it. I only ever change it from right way up to upside down then back again every half hour...

Yes I have but didn't notice much increase, even tried it for an identical recipe. The 8 hours of flipping the keg every half hour forces the hops to travel through the beer 16 times resulting in much more surface area contact. The spend hops when emptied out at the end of the process are a very...

Danestead, Great work on this recipe so far. Just thought I'd share the dry hopping technique I picked up at ANHC. I turned a corny keg into a dedicated dry hop vessel by cutting an inch off the bottom of the pickup stem with a pipe cutter. When fermentation is complete I transfer to this...

It should be a pretty easy one to clone. My advice would be to choose a pale ale recipe (american or aus) of the beersmith cloud that has a high 'rating'. Then choose your last hop addition with an aromatic hop you like, do a zero minute (flame out) addition of 30g and don't dry hop. Have a...

I have few What does pm mean. Sorry I'm new to the forum

Hi all, My first conference this year. I can't sleep, I'm so excited! Grant.

I bought my PIDs from ebay with 1/2 inch threaded rtd100 thermocouples. Set me back a huge $25 so I bought two and set one up on the tun output and one on the tun input. I control the herms element with the input thermocouple and just have the output one showing up on the second PID as a...

Hi guys, I just signed up today. I'm only doing 20lt batches but my very small home made copper coil modelled off the gryphon ss coil is only about 1m long and fits directly into an off the shelf bigW kettle which I control with a pid. It achieves very good ramp times. I think this is because...