KegLand Questions and Answers

[KegLand-com-au]

How often should I calibrate the pill? I've done a bunch of medium gravity beers and it was pretty accurate up until now. However, I just brewed a 1.080 OG, but the pill only read 1.060 when I dropped it into the fermenter.

If you use wireless charging then you pretty much will never have to calibrate again. If however you are often opening and closing the casing to charge the battery then I would calibrate every use.

When you did the initial calibration did you calibrate at 1.080? It's always best to calibrate at water being point 1 and then use the highest gravity you are likely to use being point 2.

 

[jimmmybrews]

Excellent news on both! Are you able to share any design photos/cad of the SS Fermzilla? On the market for a stainless vessel and would happily hold out knowing this is around the corner

Bump

 

[H@wkeye!]

Afternoon.

I'm trying to register my RAPT Pill with my network, but i've not been able to get it to take me to the 'captive portal'. I've tried on by phone (android) and my windows based laptop. Neither open up the 'captive portal', and as i can't get it to the wifi network to open the 'captive portal', i can't enter via the Pills IP address.

Am i missing something? Perhaps this has been answered before, but i couldn't find anything.

Hawk

 

[H@wkeye!]

Afternoon.

I'm trying to register my RAPT Pill with my network, but i've not been able to get it to take me to the 'captive portal'. I've tried on by phone (android) and my windows based laptop. Neither open up the 'captive portal', and as i can't get it to the wifi network to open the 'captive portal', i can't enter via the Pills IP address.

Am i missing something? Perhaps this has been answered before, but i couldn't find anything.

Hawk

Got it to work. Issue was my phone antenna continually switched back to my home wifi as it couldn't find a wifi connection via the RAPT Pill connection.

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

@KegLand-com-au what plastic is the little red low volume spray unit made from and what is it's maximum temperature?

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

@KegLand-com-au what plastic is this kegmenter/unitank lid made from? It says "Industrial Plastic" but you are normally more specific with that on your products... am concerned it is something riddled with BPA or other non-food grade components.

https://kegland.com.au/products/4-i...th-2-inch-tc-port?_pos=6&_sid=0adc90177&_ss=r

@KegLand-com-au any chance of a close out on this query?

 

[livo]

Does a new Digiboil need to be passivated or just cleaned with PBW and rinsed?

 

[TwoCrows]

Wash it twice and dry . Passivated.

 

[livo]

Wash it twice and dry . Passivated.

Ok, so just Stellarclean (PBW) wash it twice, with no phosphoric acid soak. The instruction sheet is vague but it does just say that they (Kegland) recommend washing with PBW before first use. No concentration is recommended so just used 1 g per litre.

I started with 65 grams dissolved in 45 litres, which I then brought up to 50'c. I used a microfibre cloth to wash the upper wall and then filled it to 65 litres, raised to 60'c and held for 30 minutes. Power off and drained the hot cleaner into kegs. Spray rinsed with fresh water and emptied to dry.

You reckon I should repeat?

 

[TwoCrows]

You just want to remove all oils and contaminants. Washing and rinsing and washing again just ensures that you got it all.
When stainless steel air dry's it self passivates.

 

[Coalface]

HI @KegLand-com-au any info on when the polyphoenix still kit will be back in stock?
Cheers.

 

[WAYNOMAD]

Hi @KegLand-com-au

Will you please consider making these baskets? but taller to maximise grain bill payload, and much cheaper, of course

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1656958...Vz5zDpWSJ6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[crowmanz]

@KegLand-com-au are the 4L/8L oxebar keg parkas as part of the new nukatap mini draught kits going to be available on their own?

https://kegland.com.au/products/4l-8l-oxebar-nukatap-mini-draught-kit

 

[sp0rk]

@KegLand-com-au do you guys recommend thread tape when using your MFL to Barb adaptors on one of your gas line manifolds?
I've just had 3 MFL to Duotight adaptors start leaking (through their body cracking) over about a month and lost a 6kg & 2.6kg bottle of CO2, I didn't notice more had cracked until after I'd replaced the first leaking one

 

[KegLand-com-au]

@KegLand-com-au do you guys recommend thread tape when using your MFL to Barb adaptors on one of your gas line manifolds?
I've just had 3 MFL to Duotight adaptors start leaking (through their body cracking) over about a month and lost a 6kg & 2.6kg bottle of CO2, I didn't notice more had cracked until after I'd replaced the first leaking one

Thread tape is not required on these fittings. If you use the fittings and tighten to the correct torque you will not get leaks and cracking.

My advice would be to do up the fittings as tight as you can by hand and then tighten by an additional 180 degree using a spanner. This will give you ample compression without cracking.

The only other reason for cracking that I am aware of is that some customers would repeatedly spray the outside of the fitting with sanitiser and then air dry. When the sanitiser dries the concentrations of the acid would get close to 100% as the water evaporates and this would damage the acetal plastic. With that said the new MFl Fittings here are made with POK:
https://kegland.com.au/products/duotight-8mm-5-16-female-x-ffl-female-thread-to-fit-mfl-disconnects
The new POK plastic can handle pure phosphoric fine so even this unlikely failure mode has been solved and it's one of the advantages over the John Guest brand that is still using acetal.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

@KegLand-com-au are the 4L/8L oxebar keg parkas as part of the new nukatap mini draught kits going to be available on their own?

https://kegland.com.au/products/4l-8l-oxebar-nukatap-mini-draught-kit

Yes we are in the process of getting these up online. They should be up on the website in the next 1-2 weeks.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

Hi @KegLand-com-au

Will you please consider making these baskets? but taller to maximise grain bill payload, and much cheaper, of course

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1656958...Vz5zDpWSJ6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

These are really easy to manufacture and we have looked at this previously. The only issue is they are quite inefficient and you will fine a signficant loss in efficiency especially if you are fly sparging.

I will bring this up with the other product development team and we will raise this again as it's been spoken about a few times in the past.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

HI @KegLand-com-au any info on when the polyphoenix still kit will be back in stock?
Cheers.

The PolyPhoenix products have been quite quite difficult to keep in stock as they have been selling quite well but also there are a lot of small components and when one common component sells out of stock it removes all the derivative components out of stock. We have a container arriving on 23st March and then another container arriving about 10th April. If you check the website close to these dates the products will be back in stock but I assume once the container lands they will sell out again quite fast so you probably want to purchase within a few days of the container landing.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

@KegLand-com-au any chance of a close out on this query?

This product is made from PolyKeytone (POK). This food grade POK is free of any BPA or any other plasticizer.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

Got it to work. Issue was my phone antenna continually switched back to my home wifi as it couldn't find a wifi connection via the RAPT Pill connection.

It's probably best for you to email us a video of the process that you are trying. We have found this to be most useful and it generally speeds up the troubleshooting a lot if we can get a video from you.

 

[clickeral]

@KegLand-com-au Bump

Any plans to do a 3/4" version of these? would be good for the 65w pumps

https://kegland.com.au/products/keg...-1-5inch-tri-clover-with-1-2-female-threadbsp

What is the part number for the replacement bottom seals on these?

https://kegland.com.au/products/cor...-mytton-rod-rheem-kegs?variant=43494609748224

@KegLand-com-au Any update on this?

 

[bloombrews]

Any plans on USA distribution of the - https://kegland.com.au/products/4l-8l-oxebar-nukatap-mini-draught-kit ?
The Nukatap works so good, many of my local Homebrew Club Members are buying the tap - Thanks!

 

[KegLand-com-au]

Any plans on USA distribution of the - https://kegland.com.au/products/4l-8l-oxebar-nukatap-mini-draught-kit ?
The Nukatap works so good, many of my local Homebrew Club Members are buying the tap - Thanks!

KegLand has two main distributors in America. www.morebeer.com and www.williamsbrwing.com

It's best to contact these guys directly and they can give you lead times and approximate arrival dates.

 

[KegLand-com-au]

@KegLand-com-au Any update on this?

https://kegland.com.au/products/keg...-1-5inch-tri-clover-with-1-2-female-threadbsp
We do not have plans to make the 3/4 quick swivel connector at this stage like the one above. With that said we do have this fitting already:
https://kegland.com.au/products/1-5-inch-tri-clover-to-3-4inch-female

We do not have seal kits for these:
https://kegland.com.au/products/cor...-mytton-rod-rheem-kegs?variant=43494609748224
With that said I think this BS117 oring will probably work:
https://kegland.com.au/products/high-temperature-silicone-oring-for-1-2-bsp-20mmidx2-5mm-bs117

 

[sp0rk]

Thread tape is not required on these fittings. If you use the fittings and tighten to the correct torque you will not get leaks and cracking.

My advice would be to do up the fittings as tight as you can by hand and then tighten by an additional 180 degree using a spanner. This will give you ample compression without cracking.

The only other reason for cracking that I am aware of is that some customers would repeatedly spray the outside of the fitting with sanitiser and then air dry. When the sanitiser dries the concentrations of the acid would get close to 100% as the water evaporates and this would damage the acetal plastic. With that said the new MFl Fittings here are made with POK:
https://kegland.com.au/products/duotight-8mm-5-16-female-x-ffl-female-thread-to-fit-mfl-disconnects
The new POK plastic can handle pure phosphoric fine so even this unlikely failure mode has been solved and it's one of the advantages over the John Guest brand that is still using acetal.

Thanks for that, I just noticed the product page states to use thread tape with stainless disconnects so thought I'd best double check
The fittings that cracked were around 5 years old and I'd only ever used soapy water to check for leaks every few months, so maybe it was just their time to go

 

[sp0rk]

These are really easy to manufacture and we have looked at this previously. The only issue is they are quite inefficient and you will fine a signficant loss in efficiency especially if you are fly sparging.

I will bring this up with the other product development team and we will raise this again as it's been spoken about a few times in the past.

I doubt the fly sparging issue will be relevant, most people mashing in these baskets are likely full volume mashing

 

[Mayor of Mildura]

Since G&G closed, I've been using KegLand and appreciate their products and prices. However, the shipping timeline is frustrating. It typically takes 3-4 business days for my order to ship, meaning that if i order early in the week it often sits in AusPost over the weekend due to my regional location. I'm wondering if there's a way to request shipping on Mondays to avoid this weekend delay. Has this been discussed before?

 

[dkril]

Ke

Since G&G closed, I've been using KegLand and appreciate their products and prices. However, the shipping timeline is frustrating. It typically takes 3-4 business days for my order to ship, meaning that if i order early in the week it often sits in AusPost over the weekend due to my regional location. I'm wondering if there's a way to request shipping on Mondays to avoid this weekend delay. Has this been discussed before?

ep in mind that parcels are often processed and/or move over the weekend, even if the brilliant auspost tracking website doesn't bother updating the reported location of your parcel .

 

[TwoCrows]

Some of kegland's distributors have great shipping and prices.
Admittedly I am on the other side of town, and get my deliveries in under 24 hour.

 

[clickeral]

Since G&G closed, I've been using KegLand and appreciate their products and prices. However, the shipping timeline is frustrating. It typically takes 3-4 business days for my order to ship, meaning that if i order early in the week it often sits in AusPost over the weekend due to my regional location. I'm wondering if there's a way to request shipping on Mondays to avoid this weekend delay. Has this been discussed before?

I found if you pay the little extra for express auspost it ships faster and typically get it next day