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Recently had a Weihenstephaner Vitus..... that moves right up near the top of the list. :icon_drool2:

Sorry to dig up an old topic, but this seemed most relevent to my question. In the Yeast book (White & Zainasheff), when transferring yeast for distilled water storage they mention that a match head sized section of a colony should be added to 2-3ml of water. In my case I will be transferring...

The smell is definitely on the inside as I can pick it up in the aroma of the beer dispensed from these particular kegs. Might have to give the caustic a go.

Hey everyone, A few months back I bought a couple of corny kegs off ebay but discovered that they had a really strong chemical aroma. I have tried to clean them by first using just standard detergent and hot water, then a week long soak in napisan and a soak in starsan. I...

Thanks for the quick respones, I'm a goose. Thought the flashing meant the unit was in cooling mode and the fridge should be on, not the compressor delay in action which I did set at 9 mins. Thanks

Hi guys, I recently bought a stc-1000 off ebay, wired it all up and the had a sparky check it over to make sure I wasn't going to fry myself. On Monday I plugged it in and it was working perfectly until yesterday when I moved the unit to a different location. When I plug it in now...

Hi Andrew, If you want to find a lot of scientific journal articles without having to physically sift through them all at the library, try visiting the homepage of your uni's library. Normally they have some kind of database search that you log into with your student ID, and you...

Blair, Have a couple of these kegs , and had to replace a lot of the bits and pieces. Both posts have the polywasher under them, but only the beer out side has a rubber gasket that fits around the diptube, gas diptube is just metal on metal. Not sure what the top hat seal is exactly, as...

So looks like I have some kind of Frankenstein keg.....typical On the Kegsonline website the right type of post to fit on to the male/male fitting seems to be a Spartanburg Spartanburg pic but the poppets I have recovered from the kegs look like cornelius..... Could I have a Mytton/Rodd...

OK here are the pics, a couple of the poppets will definitely need replacing, just need to work out which ones to get. So overall shouldn't be too expensive to get em running. Any ideas?

Ausdb, yeah the whole keg is just stainless, no rubber like a corny has. The posts look very similar to that link, except above the thread the nut is hexagonal. Lid is same as a corny minus the PRV. GuestLurker, the post consists of 2 parts which you unscrew to get to the poppet, but now I...

I received a couple of second hand 18L kegs recently, and today when I actually pullled them apart for cleaning I realised they are totally different from a regular corny keg. I can't add any pictures at the moment, but can give a brief description..... Keg posts have male fittings, and...

My mistake Sammus, heat you wort agar in a water bath until it liquifies , then keep it in your 50-60 deg water bath to prevent it from re-solidifying. Reddog, I'd also say don't prepare to much wort agar in advance as constant heating and cooling reduces the viability of the agar, just keep...

Agree with Sammus, no need to freeze. I would melt down your puck and pour it into a heat proof, covered flask of some sorts, about double the volume of your wort agar, and re-sterilise it in your pressure cooker. Once it has cooled down, make sure it is well sealed and chuck it in the fridge...

TB, I'm sure your method would work really well in the big, hoppy styles like and APA or IPA.... but in styles where you want a big whack of malt aroma to shine through as well, like a Pils or ESB, the really late hopping might overwhelm it all. But definitely another technique to add the...

Thanks for the quick replies. Qldkev: Since I am only using the smaller pot for flavour/aroma additions, the hop utilisation isn't important to me as all the bitterness will be coming from the hops in the kettle. The reason I would be doing the separate boil is to remove the unknown variable...

Recently I've been reading a lot of discussion regarding hop isomerisation post wort boil in the no chill cube, and whether or not it adds unwanted extra bitterness from hop flavour and aroma additions. It got me thinking about trying out another hopping method ( I have no idea if this has done...

I'd definitely head to Bamberg, probably the best city I visited a couple of years back. It's only a couple of hours from Munich by train, and if you like your beer I think the place has roughly 10 breweries in a town of 75 000 people, and also the home of Rauchbier. If you head there when the...

Ordered two of these a couple of weeks ago, arrived in under 5 days, with all the parts intact. Can't comment on how effective they are as I haven't got my setup running yet, but they look great, and $50 seems like a bargain compared to any other taps that I have seen. Cheers :icon_cheers:

Hi, my old man (who is not a homebrewer) picked up a couple of corny type kegs for me really cheap a few months back, I've just had a look at them for the first time and realised they are missing pressure release valves. Instead of the ring pull type on the lid, there is a male fitting on the...