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Hi hoppyscotty, where do you order the Lutra from? I have had a look around and it's not too common in the UK or Europe. Thanks.

Thanks to everyone sharing their knowledge and experience. That answers it all!

Hi MashBag, I'm making more ales and stouts with some lagers. I'd heard that Kveik produces a citric flavour?

Hi all, I have been fermenting kits for about 8 months now and have had to put in a lot of temperature control due to having upward of 35C temperatures for 6 months of the year. I've got the fermentation working well and then keeping the bottles at the fermentation temperature for 3 weeks to...

Thanks for the link. That's great!

Thanks Twostage and jof. What is a rough estimate of pot capacity needed for a given wort volume? I'd like to do 9L so would a 15L pot be enough? Not a problem buying a pot to suit the volume I plan to make, I'd just like to get a reasonable idea of the volume is all. Is there a calculator for...

Hi Twostage, were you able to measure the size of the actual volume of the pot you use? I may end up using a portable hob as my Mrs hates the idea of brewing in the kitchen and 9L is easy enough to move manually. Thanks.

Hi, I was hoping I could get some pointers before I go buy stuff. I have been using kits for about 8 months and as I live in a place with a challenging environment for fermenting, I have been getting the temperature control for both primary and secondary ferments down pat before moving over to...

So you have a heater element, good news. Just remember to use it with a temperature controller and the temperature sensor slightly above half way up the level of the wort. Also recommend it is kept in an insulated or small enclosed volume. So far I've only done kits and find that the temperature...

They are connected in series. When the temperature is really high they can lower incoming water by about 6C each. I started out by having the water leave the cool box, go through the peltiers and directly into the insulated chamber. This would take a long time to cool anything so I made the cool...

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I have 4 peltier water coolers connected in series providing cold water to a cool box. This is controlled by an ink bird. I then have another ink bird which controls a pump that supplies a chamber with fan radiators (very small) and some tubing wrapped around my fermenting bucket. I have 2 of...

Thanks for the excellent advice. I have uploaded some translated pages from an online supplier in Spain. This is the kettle and mash kit available. It is still €245 but much cheaper than the https://brouwland.com/en/electric-brew-kettles/11886-brew-monk-all-in-one-brewing-system.html which is...

I have looked into modding a cool box and doing a BIAB by just letting it soak for over an hour, but I would like a bit more control over the process. Do you have any plans on how to make one?

It is a boiler with an additional kit to allow mashing. I think I'd probably follow CWRW666's advice about BIAB though as it sounds like that would be alot easier on maintenance. I live in Spain and there are not many suppliers of homebrew equipment here and importing large bits of kit is very...

Hi, I'm getting on well with various kits and am looking into what would make a good kettle for all grain wort. I have seen a Kegland digiboil 35L with malt kit. Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks,

Hi dmtaylor, the 1st fermentation I can cool to 20C with the rig I have. The problem I had is the 2nd fermentation. I wasn't sure that bottle fermentation (with 100g of sugar) would cause the high level of off taste I was experiencing. I have found that it was the case and that I need to keep...

Hi MashBag, ambient goes from 15C in winter to 45C in summer. I have insulated and cooled bags to ferment in and am now using them to continue the 2nd fermentation for upto 2 weeks. This seems to work OK. I can keep a wort down to about 20C when the temperature is in the 40s. However, it has to...

I have tried the last brew throughout the last 10 days after bottling and found, that after moving a bottle to a non temperature controlled cupboard, after 8 days in 23C conditions there were no off flavours. From now on I will be keeping the beers at 22C for 2 weeks after bottling before...

The 1st fermentation was at 20Cish for about a week. After that I bottled and left the full bottles in a cupboard which is somewhere between 28-35C all the time. The first fermentation went quite quick so I think the packaged yeast (Muntons Gold bought separately) was OK. I'm pretty sure it is...