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Received 5m of silicone hose this morning from Vossy, superb service & next day delivery so I can't recommend it enough!

Ok so the pressure's on to finish this, deadline is the weekend! Got a 25kg sack of maris otter on the way from Paul at barleybottom.com and I plan to brew once a week for the next two months :D Silicone hose is here, and I've done about 50% of the control box. I've never wired anything like...

Nice site! Brewing-tips.com blog of the week today. Cheers, H

Your help is REALLY appreciated guys. I think I'm going to do as AM says and make do with a 22mm to 15mm reducer with the hose pushed over it, but might use john guest fittings to make it easy to swap over. I'm going to order one type A camlock fitting though, just to see if it works!

That's what I thought, but intrico have told me that their 3/4" BSP camlock fittings will not fit 22mm ball valves! :S

in other words: I have no idea why hose barbs only come in BSP fittings, when all the valves I can find come in either 22mm or 15mm fittings! :(

I am so confused :( I have bought 20mm pegler ball valves for the kegs, which have 20mm compression fittings at the end. I need to: a) hook these up to some tubing b) find some tubing. My problem is that I can't work out how to hook it up to some tubing (cant find barb fittings that go over...

Aah ok, well at the moment I use Barley Bottom's sanitising powder, it says it's fine for aluminium so that should be fine right?

Quick question.... I'm getting some camlock hose fittings, and I've got the choice between stainless steel and aluminium. Aluminium: £31.96 Steel: £79.20 Aluminium will be fine... right? Please say it will!

I put it on autotuning and it seemed to work.... until the sensor started playing up.... I think I got water in it :(

it's an italian PID made by a brand called Thermostar Scotti, I bought it off ebay second hand but luckily thermostar were great and posted me a manual from italy costing them 5 euros and didnt charge me : ) Unfortunately, it's very basic, and only covers what the functions do, not how to use...

Ok the only parameters I can change on the PID are ALM1 & 2 (alarms) Sc (or 5c I can't tell) which I beleive is for sensor correction, it goes from -10 to 10 and each degree will adjust the measured temp readout. P I D T Manual says: SETTING RANGE =1 to 100 sec (0 cannot be set) *2 (times...

Oooh sorry that was a brainfart I meant Type J! I've tested the readout with a cheap digital thermometer and a spirit thermometer and the readings seem to be spot on, it's just the control turning off early and keeping the temp at 49*c instead of 66*c - not sure why that would be?

OK so I got some REAL type k thermocouples, and they work a treat! I've got the PID set up so that it turns the heater on and off, and it appears to work..... kinda. I now need to work out the settings to use. The issue at the mo is that if I set the set temperature to 66*c, it will climb to...

in my experience (which admittadly is quite limited), elderflower only smells/tastes of cat **** if you pick it a day or so after it has rained - if you make sure to pick it after a few days of hot sun you'll be fine :D

yep definitely not elderflower : )

Nope it's of it cooling down to pitching temperature :) What abv is yours? Got a pic? H

yep it's of it cooling : ) I've not got an airlock around so I'm not sure what I'll do about keeping it air-locked.... probably just cover the top in foil with a little string holding it on

'ello. I took a break from building the 10 gallon eHERMS setup I've been working on and decided to start work on a hard lemonade recipe for the summer months. I plan to brew one 1.5 litre mini-batch a week, making adjustments to each batch, and hopefully ending up with a great recipe for a 5...

I contacted the previous owner of the PIDs and he said that he checked a maintenance report and that the units were special one-off PIDs designed to use type J thermocouples, so I've ordered one to try it out. That said, the ones I got from virtual village were NOT K thermocouples, and virtual...