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This sounds great - do you mind sharing what sort of OG you are pitching onto, and how long you run the starter for? I brew 10L batches and have previously been using half a pack of US-05... I’m switching to kveik and plan to top-crop, but any way of getting more yeast from a pack would be...

I’ll preface this by saying that yes, ideally I would be fermenting in a temperature-controlled fridge. At the moment though I don’t have the space, and am mitigating the lack of cooling by fermenting under pressure and using Voss kveik. The only issue I have come across is not being able to...

Hello! I like the BlowTie from KegLand - it works really well and is reasonably priced

You can also sparge cold. You’re efficiency may drop slightly but your beer will be fine

Yeah I find 15L to be the most I would do, but now I serve from 10L kegs I don’t find myself fermenting more than this anyway. I like drinking relatively highly dry-hopped beer, and so brewing smaller volumes means I can drink it all whilst it is still fresh. Plus I get bored easily and would...

I find it’s very straightforward to scale batches to whatever volume you like with software like BrewFather or BeerSmith. Gravity reading are as you said just poured with a picnic tap.

I completely agree - I much prefer the Grainfather design of having the controller mounted higher up

I also like this link which I find a bit easier to search through than going through the guidelines page by page. https://dev.bjcp.org/beer-styles/beer-style-guidelines/

In case you fancied switching them over BrewKegTap sell an upgrade for the screw connectors on the GF so they are more like the BrewZilla connectors https://brewkegtap.co.uk/products/grainfather-sparge-arm-camlock-conversion-kit-type-2

Here’s how I have my fermentation side set up. I ferment 12L in a corny keg, which allows me to have 2L for trub before packaging 10L into my 10L keg and 7L of headspace for krausen. Replacing the liquid dip tube for a gas one is very easy, and as Neil mentioned means you can attach a floating...

Why do you want to change your system? What isn’t it doing that you want it to? I’ve used both a Grainfather and a BrewZilla and found the BZ to be the equal of, and in some respects much better than, the Grainfather. The only reason I sold my Grainfather was due to moving from the other side of...

The SmartPID also integrates with BrewFather software very nicely

I do ferment in kegs and it works perfectly for me. Corny kegs are sturdier than plastic, are pressure rated to over 100psi, have easily serviceable and replaceable parts and can be used as a keg again in future if you decide at a later date you want to ferment in something different. The only...

Wow that is expenSSSive... the video for the siphon on the malt miller website was interesting mainly for the fact everyone seemed to have massive hair?! It’s a pass from me unless they also throw in a massive wig.

If you have corny kegs already, why not simply ferment in one of those? All the benefits of being able to pressure ferment and do oxygen-free transfers, they are opaque, and most importantly you have them already so don’t need to buy anything!

Drear

Too slow!

This is going to sound stupid on a beer forum but I dislike the look of kegerators... they seem a bit too much like being in a pub! There isn’t really a good space for me to put one in our place either but I wanted the convenience of kegs, so went for these which will happily fit in my fridge in...

Hi Ben! I’ve just been buying kegs myself, and went for a couple of 10L kegs from BKT. They are not the cheapest keg out there, but one of the few which state their max operating pressure. Some kegs I have seen which do state this only have a max pressure of 30psi before the PRV vents, and as I...

Oh gosh - what a shame. Thanks for letting me know 👍