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Cheers all. Sounds like in general most just do a couple weeks ferment which gets everything cleaned up from the yeast point of view. Cold crash to drop the crap out if you want clearer beer. Does this effect the amount of yeast available to carbonate bottles? And Barge I'm all into...

Welcome to brewing for starters. I brewed for a real long time just doing the old school can and sugar and never tipped a single one. You still need the fermentation gear to do this so I'd suggest buy the bare minimum to do a couple of cans of goop and expand. It'll teach you the basics of...

Ok so traditionally I've done can goop beer. Fermented out until the airlock stopped and checked FG. Bottled the said goop and done. I want to know people's opinions on the do's and dont's of fermenting. For the purpose of this question I'll talk Ales. Diacetyl rest ? Is it worth doing and how...

So I'm part way through mashing as we speak. And I'm reading your tuning information. I'm an industrial electrician myself and deal with heating every other day. And I got to thinking how .3 +/- isn't that great. So start messing with PID settings. Only to find that it's still set to on/off (...

Haha. That's honesty for you.

Here's some notes from the last one I did. Coopers Canadian Blonde. #4 Wort Date. 07/07/15 750g DLME Heated with 1.5 ltrs water. Fill to 23 litres in fermenter. us05 yeast. Pitched at 20. Specific gravity Start. 1048 Finish. 1011 Average brew temp. = 21 Hops added. = 15/7/15. 25 g Galaxy...

Anyone who intends to catch a train in from north side. Check your times. Northgate to Gympie rail is closed all weekend. Buses are running but will add a bit more time on travel.

Couple of quick pics.

I went ahead and temporarily plumbed the hex with the hlt for my own experimental benefits. I've ended up leaving it as planned. Meaning it worked as good as I could have hoped. It holds the temperature within +/- .3c. I'm happy with that result so never bothered altering the length or the hlt...

I've used Canadian blonde a few times. 700 odd g of ldme. Dry hopped them with Galaxy and cascade. Used us05 yeast or the supplied yeast. Always tasted pretty damn good to me.

So will you let it grow exile or cut it back? whats the normal thing to be doing this time of the year.

I did an ipa and dry hopped with 25g of cascade last brew I did. That was in a 23 litre brew. It was a nice taste for my liking. Next brew I might push it a bit further and give it 35g and see the difference. I got a hop bag from my local brew shop. Just added the hops in the bag tied it off...

Seems that the best place to monitor temperature is at the return to the mash tun. I am interested to know if the wort gets slightly hotter before if reaches the return is it going to effect the wort. From a scientific perspective when talking about a certain mash temperature is the temperature...

Dont join the military just yet. Just pointing out how threads get off track easily due to misinformation assumption and unnecessary posts. Cheers.

I believe I asked if his cans were out of date. Regardless Ross is completely correct in saying read the original question. I'm relatively new to this forum and have noticed how quickly threads get railroaded with technical and sometimes irrelevant banter. Some of the beer gods have to...

all of the coopers can brews I've ever done have instructions under the lid. They all have said pitch yeast between 18 to 32 c. Not ideal of course but that's what their instructions say. Even on lager. I've pitched in summer around 30 plenty over the years with no ill effect. In fact if you...

I had a can sit past the used by date once. Thought I'd open it and have a go anyhow.( with new yeast ). What was supposed to be coopers lager looked more like an oil change from a Diesel engine. Long shot considering its a few you've done but they're in date yeh?

All good. No discouragement at all. Any input is always good to hear. I actually have two 2200w elements in the hlt and two in the boil kettle. I have the two three position switches setup to either run one element alone or both together for each of the vessels. I do realise it's not...

Ramp rates etc are new to me being an extract brewer up till now. I was only aiming at the usual 23 litre batches that I would normally punch out of a can. I've purely gone off copious hours of reading googling and researching others systems to get to where I am atm. Im sure there will be some...

Hmm interesting. Yes it's about 30 litres in that hlt and 15 mtrs of coil. Using two elements at 2200 watts each. Switchable for one or two depending on how things eventuate. I figured I would heat the hlt to mash temp then switch across and monitor the return of the sparge arm to control the...