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Tested the temp reading during mash.. The controller was set to 67C and reading pretty much spot on. Manual temp check using a digital kitchen probe gave it with 1C.

Yep - the flower bed got it. It cost me just a little over a tenner to replace the grains from my local brewshop (with the odd substitution), so no great financial issue. Its only my second AG brew, so keen to try to follow the instructions to make a decent batch. I can start playing about once...

No big surprise. I think the thermometer must be built into the base, and the heat plate will probably effect that. I'll have a look and compare temps with a manual reading when I go again today.

It depends on the lesson... I have learned more about how the Klarstein controller works.. but maybe not what a 97C mash beer tastes like!

Update.. A quick phone call to Colchester Homebrew Supplies, and they kindly stayed open a few mins longer to give me the chance to get there! Picked up replacement malts and will go again tomorrow. Lesson learned!

Pre boil temp adjusted SG is around 1.038. Target post boil is 1.045. So I'll probably hit that at least. But will flavours be completely off?

It was def at 97C when I came back to it. No idea how long it had taken to reach that temp, so I don't know how long it had been there. Prob about 20 mins I think! I'd gone to the effort to get spotless water too, and my first go with the additions for that! 😭 Waste of time continuing?

Bugger! Ballsed up my brew, do I just chuck it? Brewing an IPA AG kit from Malt Miller, set the mash to 67C for an hour, then left it. Come back after 40 mins and I've cocked up the all in one settings and it's been set at 97C! I've set it back to 67C and it's obviously now dropping.. But will...

sorry - going back to this! Do you then have to test the water each time and adjust as needed, or do you assume consistency across batches if the ratio you use is the same? I was hoping to use spotless so that I didnt have to keep testing, but I get what you mean about tap containing other...

I've gone for 1 of the 8L ones, but the 4s look great for taking some into the house an not have to walk all that way to the kegarator in the garage! I grabbed 2 tapping heads from Ali last week, £7 each, but now out of stock. But they do have just the black but for half that, but you need your...

My concern isnt really the oxygen, but if you are swapping over to a full & carbed keg, the pressure release will cause frothing and likely spillage.

@AngelHomebrew. Great - thanks for the update. I can see these being VERY popular, and don't blame you for just grabbing the stock you could and getting them out there quickly!

But only selling them as a lot with 2 kegs and one tapping head?? What's the point of only one head? Surely that leaves one of the kegs useless... I wouldn't want to have to release pressure to move the head over, and oxygen in etc. Seems a strange way to sell them @AngelHomebrew or am I missing...

Sold out in 5 hrs apparently !

Ive got 2 of the tapping heads on the way from Ali, and received the oxy from BKT yesterday, Its a great size for me and will sit on the compressor hump in my kegarator behind two cornies - so using up otherwise dead space. The 4L would be great too and I'll probably get one of those when the...

I've got one of those cone bits that I used to drill holes out of a plastic brew vessel - that should do it and be easy to control.

Fair point... Never really thought of just drilling out a new hole!

Anyone tried replacing the tap on the Aldi Mulled Wine heater with a ball valve? I'm thinking of building a simple spinning sparge arm and use gravity from the heater. But it would be far easier to connect to a proper ball valve output than trying to force a suitable tube onto the inbuilt tap.

I have an old Brew2bottle beer heat pad that I'm not using, and wondering if I could use it for helping my chili and tom seeds along? Has anyone done this? It wont have an kind of thermostat, unless I hook up a temp sensor and a smart plug to measure the temp of some of the soil. Thats fairly...

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