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NASA are streaming live footage from both the shuttle endeavour and the International Space Station. It like some sort of futuristic big brother in space! This Link takes you to the shuttle feed and will start playing straight away. At the bottom right of the video window you can click the...

Just about to bake a whole atlantic salmon in the oven. Ive tried a couple of times, one at 73degC which was bloody beautiful (especially on sliced white bread toasted in a low oven for 1/2 hour) and another at 66degC which was christmas lunch but was a bit too tender, so whats the best temp...

On friday night I was kegging a brew, and tipped out the saniclean in the keg into the kitchen sink. I realised that the phosphoric acid could stain the bench, so went over it with a sponge. But today I moved the bottled of saniclean only to find a phosphoric acid stain. I had this 18 months...

I have a kitchen stove that runs off gas bottles, but it takes ages to get to boil. There is a regulator at the gas bottles (90kg ones I think), so can I tweak that to increase the pressure to I can boil my wort and spuds faster? I currently take about 2 hours to achieve a rolling boil of 30L...

So far I have installed one of my three taps in the front of the keg fridge. Also soaked 2 kegs with napisan, and have pumped it through both kegs and the tap for about 3 hours. I have 3 taps total, 7 kegs, and two fridges. Unfortunately, crash chilling the fermenters resulted in them freezing...

I filtered my beer for the first time tonight, and I'm not sure how to clean it. Its a Ross type. Do I remove the pleated filter and wash under running water like a spa filter? It does look like a spa filter! Or can I just reverse the flow, and pump starsan through it. It currently has...

Just went to Harvey norman to get a new fridge, and they have the same one as I currently use for fermenting that holds 4 x 20L jerry cans that I paid $580 (699 retail I think) for now at the reduced price of $324. So I got 2. Quite a bargain IMO. No afiliation, just love these extremely light...

One of my passions is remote sensing. Most days I goto https://acres.ga.gov.au/modis_data and see yesterdays moderate resolution satelite images. They have a resolution of one pixel per 1 square kilometer. They arent normal photos, but rather a chemical analysis of the light being reflected of...

I have had a theory for a while now, that if wort could be pumped continuously during fermentation, that it would ferment fast without producing any off flavours. The purpose is to reduce fermentation times. As I am setting up a new rig, I am trying to size the fermenter. If the time can be...

Making a pumpkin soup at the moment with 6 butternut pumpkins. It is too large a volume for my normal 12-15L pots, so am boiling it in the 35L brew pot. I also wanted to add come chilli and basil and even mushroom, but didnt want to have bits of them in the soup. So I put them in a hop bag. This...

Anyone know of a recipe / mash temp / grain bill that can produce beer with very little fermentables. - I am after a weekday brew that has very little alcohol, but all the flavour. Cheers.

So it is pretty late, and had a big day brewing. I need to wake up fresh in the morning, so I need a way to prevent a hangover. Personally I make sure I stop drinking at least an hour bofore I go to bed and try to drink a few glasses of water. But my secret ingredient is to take a couple of...

Got some leftover Carapils, LDME, hops, yeast, and two new cans of coopers lager. Been 2 months since my last brew and on the last 15L so need to top up the coffers. So far I have steeped 330gm of carapils and got about 10L of dark wort. Added 3Kg of LDME to the boiling wort. Boiled for 20 mins...

I have been planning an automated brewing system for a couple of months now. I started designing a process flow diagram tonight, which is the first real step towards making it a reality. I am doing the reasearch and development at the same time, so far I have worked out how to automate valves...

I cant seem to find electric john guest valves so I am figuring out how to add a geared motor to a JG valve. The closest thing I have found is 15mm and so too big http://www.rwc.co.uk/Public/senselec/senssole.pdf I have drafted a few manifolds for brewerys that have 20 or so electric valves...

So I have a Reverse Osmosis water filter that today made water at about 8.1pH. I like pilsner beer and this is my third AG brew. Previously without an acid rest I got about 5.4pH using a ph meter. This is the first time I tried an acid rest at 40 deg C and did it just to see what would happen...