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Modern galavanized steel is lead-free, but there can be residual lead in older products ('tin' baths for example) and older manufactured items with soldered joints. It basically depends on the grade of galvanized steel, so it's a concern worth investigating. But I'm too damn tired, so I'll...

Hmmm, MightyMouth over at JBK thinks I might be at risk of introducing heavy metal poisoning through the galvanised steel, so I need to look at the ability of running water at 75c to strip the zinc coating before i do anything else, really...

A Larch. Arg, my hovercraft is full of eels! What a long, long, day this was. The most exciting thing to happen to me since 6am was this parcel, I'll have you know.

Can you guess what it is yet?

I did! I did! On Saturday! I made a stout with it and wrote it up. My cornies are full and so is my fermenter, so I have to pace myself just a little.... The Boxshed & Twisted MUST be knocked back in time to clean the keg for the stout, and another bitter is in the pipeline in my head... ...I...

Measured today at 1.016 from 1.048 after 48hrs and still burping like a good 'un. Nice.

Thanks for the replies - it's funny how each brew still feels like a shiny new toy, isn't it? I'm very pleased with the liquid yeast, which went off like a rocket after just a couple of hours in a nice warm room. This morning, about 20hrs into fermentation the airlock is bubbling continuously...

The brewday went really well. Of course what with everything going to plan and all, it wasn't particularly exciting. I also really missed adding aroma hops - it's one of my favourite steps I think. Still, the brew looks great and its airlock is bubbling away very nicely, so I have high hopes...

A good day with little incident. Pictures and details later, but 23L at 1.048 in the fermenter! :cheers:

Cheers all. I've cleaned and prepped most things, but I'm off to the local now, so who knows how I'll feel in the morning. Have good evenings everyone - brewing or otherwise! :cheers:

Boiled up some spraymalt and went with an overnight starter in any case:

I know i should grow it over several days really BS, but I have a window of opportunity tomorrow i need to grab and so I'll hope this once the yeast will do what it says on the vial... :| On the plus side, I'm definitely in business tomorrow! Nice yeast for a dry stout (shame I don't have...

Hmmm, I take your point, but I have pitched directly before and it has fermented out in time. It's just arrived though this second! So I think I will make an overnight starter and go with that. Should be okay I hope? :pray: EDIT : Actually it's well within date, so I think I'll just risk it...

Assuming I can half-inch a few kilos of pale malt ahead of tomorrow, I'm planning a nice relaxed brewday on Saturday with my new mashtun. Because I haven't sorted out the sparge manifold to my satisfaction just yet, I'm going to revert to batch sparging for this one - there's plenty of headroom...

Thanks Aleman. Maybe this then: Pale Malt 3.75Kg Flaked Barley 800g Roasted Barley 500g Wheat Malt 200g WGV 60g, 60 minute boil (approx 34 IBU @ 5%AA) No aroma hops Irish Ale White Labs WLP004 1.049 - 1.014 > 4.6%ABV I want to keep much of the dryness but the small addition of wheat...

Thanks for the feedback - I calculated this based on 75% efficiency, but I'd hope to get nearer 80% in reality. You used WGV did you? EDIT : Just seen your Genius recipe and it is almost the same isn't it, except you have 24l brew length and I calculated based on 23L. I must admit that all I...

Hi there. I need to try out my new mashtun sooner rather than later I think. As soon as I can lay my hands on some more malt from my chum at the local micro, I'm going to make a stout using tried and tested grain balance (7:2:1) and hops from this year's garden crop of Whitbread Goldings variety...

No, I just twisted and forced it in about a cm or so.

Of course the first bitter wort will have to pass the Vossy clarity test... ...unless its stout... :drunk:

I'd LOVE a workbench like that.