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    fridge help please

    Hi, I have just acquired an old fridge which appears tp have a thermostat problem in that the compressor is running non-stop and over the course of a couple of days it has frozen my 3 kegs which I put in it. It is a fridge on-top and freezer on bottom. I don't want to use this as a fermenting...
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    adjusting (increasing) IBU's after primary ferment?

    Can someone please advise on the following? The weekend just gone I brewed a California common style beer. Unfortunately when I put the recipe together in Brewmate I didn't realise that I had inadvertently ticked the no-chill box, so my hop additions were calculated way too low and seems that...
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    Can You Half Fill Kegs?

    This might be a silly question but better safe than sorry. I have 28 litres coming ready for kegging. A corny keg takes 18 - 19litres. I have two empty corny kegs. Do I fill one up full and then put remaining (lets say 10 litres) into the other. Can you carbonate up a half full keg OK. What...
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    Adjusting Hop Additions For No Chill - How?

    As a result of being able to do 60 litre batches, having limited keg space and not wanting 60 litres of a single batch ready to drink all at the same time, I have decided on the following approach. Mash and sparge as per normal. Split the pre-boiled wort into two kettles. Run one kettle as...
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    How To Keep Beer Prior To Kegging

    Hi, as I am now doing 60 litre batches and currently only have 2 corny kegs, there is around 20 litres that needs to sit waiting for a keg to become free. This could be a month or two depending on batch rotation etc.. What is the best way to hold this beer to avoid it deteriorating? Is there...
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    Us-05 Fermenting @ Low Temp, Any Issues?

    Hi All, quick one. I have 60 litres of something simlar to the Mongoose Brown Ale from the Recipe DB fermenting away with US-05 yeast. Temperatures in AAuckland have dropped significantly in the last weeks and it is sitting in the garage fermenting at about 12-14 degC. Aside from it being...
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    Krausen Not Clearing - Why?

    HI All, looking for some thoughts on this situation. Last weekend I brewed 2 50 litre batches of Pale Ale type all grains. Each batch was split into 2 fermenters and all 4 fermenters were pitched with rehydrated US-05. The US-05 was 4 packets rehydrated in 500ml of water. This was then split...
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    Double Batch Mash Capacity With Single Batch Boil Capacity

    I have this weekend upgraded from a 20l bucket for mashing to a 60l version so am now pretty sure I can get double batches out of the mash tun (I am batch sparging). My problem now is that my boiler is only 40l so at the moment I can only do mashes that give me a ore-boil volume around 35l. My...
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    Round Phalse Bottom In Square Mash Tun

    I have been brewing all grain for a year or two now using a 9 inch round steel phalse bottom (bought from Grain & Grape) in a bucket as a mash tun. I am batch sparging. The bucket finally has given way and I am looking to upgrade to a bigger vessel, either a chilly bin or some form of...
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    Krazy Krausen

    I have just completed my second all grain this past weekend and have noticed something quite different to the first, and also quite different to all the partials I have done in the past. This one has gone mad in the fermenter within 12 hours of pitching, with the white fulffy stuff (krausen I...
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