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That's where I keep my brew logs and also higher resolution photos. I tried to add the same pictures to this thread, but couldn't work out how to insert clickable thumbnails. The full-size pictures looked odd here, so I linked out instead. Hope that's OK ...

I started a brew last week in order to use up some odds and ends that I had floating about, including half a sachet of Hornindal that was BBE sometime in 2022. Might have known I was pushing my luck with that one. It took off all right and fermentation was done after a few days as usual, but...

All noted, thanks. I used to stir every brew every 15-20 minutes, partially in order to get a slow mash moving again, and partially because I wasn't happy with the way that my standard mash hat failed to distribute the wort evenly atop the grain. Since fitting an improved recirculation manifold...

Cheers for the response @hoppyscotty. Yesterday's brew day went pretty well and I was left with a pre-boil gravity of 1.042 against predicted 1.037, boil volume 28 litres against 28.86. Prior to using rice hulls regularly I played around with the grain absorption ratio in my calculations, and...

Serious question. In the past I've struggled with gloopy mash when brewing big beers, so I started introducing rice hulls in order to make things flow a little better, reduce reliance on stirring, reduce HSA, improve clarity, etc. Right now I'm mashing what will be a light Czech lager using...

That's probably because you left the O-rings out. 😁 Seriously though, an impressive arrangement. The only (and very minor) reservation I'd have about using that is that my spunding valve attaches to the threads above the hops, and while useful for purging oxygen, the steady stream of CO2 through...

Perfect - thanks for that. Unfortunately I'm 1.5" too short in my fermentation fridge for this arrangement. Good thought though!

Thanks for the replies everyone, it's much appreciated though it feels as though we've strayed onto the topic of whether or not we should worry about oxygen during dry-hopping, whereas I've already decided that yes, I do worry, and I'm going to take some reasonable steps to reduce it as much as...

Good call. I do have some of those knocking about in my Geocaching kit, but it hadn’t occurred to me to see if the thread was compatible. Cheers!

That’s the way I’ve been doing it until now, but I’m keen to see if I can make the hop aroma and taste last a bit longer - typically it tails off after 10 days or so. You’ve probably been there and done that, hence the comment, but I’m gonna have a fiddle anyway. Wish I’d known. Postage to my...

The Brewtools is my first all-grain setup so I don’t really have a comparison, but I’ve not found the cleaning to be overly onerous, and some of it can be done while brewing. For example, I’ve found that it’ll take 10 - 15 minutes to get to a boil after sparging, which is enough time to take the...

Howdy Folks. In my ongoing efforts to reduce DO ingress I'm using a small plastic bottle and ball valve to hold the hop pellets atop my Fermzilla during fermentation, deploying them with a deft turn of the valve when it's time to dry-hop. That was the theory anyway - in practice those pellets...

I've had my B40 Pro setup getting on for two years now, and I absolutely love it! Yes, it's a lot of money. Back in my research stage I considered several other systems, but the standard Brewtools kit looked as though it was made up of components which would prove to be other manufacturers'...

Duly noted, thanks for that. I don't have any dedicated hop tubes as yet but will probably be OK using one of my fine mesh bags, though I'll have to change my keg purging approach. Right now I tend to fill the entire keg with sanitiser and then drive it out with CO2, but I might have to leave...

That's a fair point, but I'm trying to avoid dropping pressure if possible because I'm concerned about the effects of de/re-pressurising my Tilt Pro floating hydrometer. To be honest I can't believe it's remained airtight as long as it has, so I don't want to push my luck by subjecting it to...

Hey @hoppyscotty, thanks for coming back to me. My experience is exactly the same, and it's a shame to have a substantial chunk of hops just sitting there underutilised until the day you chuck 'em out. I too had thought of shutting the valve again as soon as the newly added hops are released...

Afternoon everyone! I've been using my Fermzilla to ferment under pressure for about a year now and I'm very happy with it, but I still want to improve my technique when it comes to dry-hopping. Leaving discussions of hop-rockets, internal magnets etc aside for a moment, I wonder what you think...

Just one comment which may or may not be relevant, but if you ferment under pressure then your beer is pretty much already carbonated when fermentation is done, and bottling fermented beer can be tricky. I love my Fermzilla and use it a lot, but everything that I brew with it gets kegged, not...

Not to worry - found it. Wonder why it's more expensive than the Argon adapters ... ?

I've been using CO2 to carbonate and serve beer for just over a year and would like to try a 70:30 Nitrogen / CO2 mix, mainly because we can't get any CO2 right now where I live. I have however sourced a great big bottle of this Beer Gas, but it uses a different regulator connection. A quick...