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Hello fellowship of the yeast.
I am reasonably new to the forum and have been lurking for a week or so. So much to learn since my last brew session.
I have mounted my assault on this fruity yet palatable forum :icon_drunk: tonight for a very good reason. I am about to rack my second brew, Spicy Ghost, but alas, I forgot to pick up another airlock and bung. So, need to know the size to drill a hole to accept my bung and airlock from the main fermenter into the racking bin lid I bought from bunnings the other day. Standard type S-Bend. Not the s-bend size thank you, the hole for the bung will make my racking weekend so much nicer. I don't want to extract the bung from a fermenting barrel for to run a vernier over the hole for the risk of axle greese from the verniers.....especially as I have a Aussie Pale Ale ready to go in!
My last home brew was about 15 years ago, a home made brew made of nashi pears and dextrose. Alot of dextrose. I used the freezing and spinning method instead of the norm. Of course I'm talking of spirits, not beer. The 'dextrose blocks' were wonderful and I enjoyed the use of freezing, drills, spinning, centrifugal force and the sweet hint of nashi taste in my whisky. All without a still.
Anyhow - the lack of freezer space and pet bottles stopped that again. The wife was so not fair. Like we need a freezer!
I bought a 'brand new unopened' brewing kit off feebay a few weeks ago. Brand new and unopened it was, yippie , but upon closer inspection ( under the rust from the can ) was a expiry date of 2006!... A lager at that.
Being a week away to getting to a shop ( or could not be bother too ) I brewed it. It was all bubbling away within 18 hours. It's now sitting almost two weeks old in a racking bin in the garage. I'll bottle it in a week or so :lol: , and this will be for my 'special friends' :huh:
Racking a spicy Ghost this weekend, hence my need for a hole size in the new fermenter lid , and straight into the APA....
Thanks in advance for all the unasked help I have had from reading the forum and look forward to many years of solid and dedicated brewing ( mashing ) in the future!
I am reasonably new to the forum and have been lurking for a week or so. So much to learn since my last brew session.
I have mounted my assault on this fruity yet palatable forum :icon_drunk: tonight for a very good reason. I am about to rack my second brew, Spicy Ghost, but alas, I forgot to pick up another airlock and bung. So, need to know the size to drill a hole to accept my bung and airlock from the main fermenter into the racking bin lid I bought from bunnings the other day. Standard type S-Bend. Not the s-bend size thank you, the hole for the bung will make my racking weekend so much nicer. I don't want to extract the bung from a fermenting barrel for to run a vernier over the hole for the risk of axle greese from the verniers.....especially as I have a Aussie Pale Ale ready to go in!
My last home brew was about 15 years ago, a home made brew made of nashi pears and dextrose. Alot of dextrose. I used the freezing and spinning method instead of the norm. Of course I'm talking of spirits, not beer. The 'dextrose blocks' were wonderful and I enjoyed the use of freezing, drills, spinning, centrifugal force and the sweet hint of nashi taste in my whisky. All without a still.
Anyhow - the lack of freezer space and pet bottles stopped that again. The wife was so not fair. Like we need a freezer!
I bought a 'brand new unopened' brewing kit off feebay a few weeks ago. Brand new and unopened it was, yippie , but upon closer inspection ( under the rust from the can ) was a expiry date of 2006!... A lager at that.
Being a week away to getting to a shop ( or could not be bother too ) I brewed it. It was all bubbling away within 18 hours. It's now sitting almost two weeks old in a racking bin in the garage. I'll bottle it in a week or so :lol: , and this will be for my 'special friends' :huh:
Racking a spicy Ghost this weekend, hence my need for a hole size in the new fermenter lid , and straight into the APA....
Thanks in advance for all the unasked help I have had from reading the forum and look forward to many years of solid and dedicated brewing ( mashing ) in the future!