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I've never needed to set the control higher to get a rolling boil. However, if you find you can't get an adequate rolling boil with it set to 100 degrees C, you can actually recalibrate the controller to think that 100 degrees is a lower temperature (folks with the Bulldog Master Brewer have to...

Just don't accidentally touch your chiller whilst doing it... Trust me on that one... lmao

As others have said, I turn my pump on for the last 10/15 minutes of the boil and pump boiling wort through my pump, pipework and plate chiller in order to sterilise it ready for cooling. I then full volume cool (recirculating through the plate chiller back into the kettle, rather than...

Buy a bottle of German wheat beer from Aldi or Lidl. The stuff they sell is usually a clove bomb in my experience, with pretty much no banana. Might help you to compare.

The time I tried my hand at brewing a Grisette using Jester hops. It came out tasting of copper pennies and onions, and went straight down the toilet in the end after been given about 6 months to improve. As to wine, I tried making actual wine, using pressed grapes from my parent's garden...

Just a quick observation, that's a heck of a lot of coriander in a 15 litre batch, I only used 10g in a 23 litre batch of Belgian wit (which is supposed to have a nice hit of clove and coriander, vs a German wheat...), and the flavour was quite apparent, you sure it's not the coriander that...

Even with a simple 10mm home made single coil copper wort chiller on the hottest day of the year I never used that much water for 25 litres. We you recirculating back into the kettle or running off in to a FV? Into buckets on that particular day, as I was too far away from the drain for the...

They're 1/2" BSP bud, I went with quick disconnects as that was what came fitted to the Klarstein. I could have switched them, but QDs work well enough. Fittings are from Brewbuilder, hose I usually get either from there or Malt miller. Hoses are all platinum cured silicone. To hook up the...

Hi, got it from brewbuilder, cost me £89.50, plus the cost of the various fittings and shipping. Not cheap by any means, but worth the money IMHO.

I have a big plate chiller from brew builder (50 plate, 100KW), it uses less water than my copper immersion chiller used to, and cools a LOT faster. I would never go back now. (pic to break up wall of text a bit) As to cleaning, yeah bit harder than with immersion chillers, but not that...

I did that when I bought it, it kinks though if you try to bend it up that far as it's the narrow sort. As I mentioned before, The Brauheld Pro doesn't have a camlock or anything on the recirc either, and the pipework isn't standard 1/2" bsp as if it was I'd fit one myself, then just set up a...

Just a note, I just did my first brew with fly sparging with the Brauheld Pro machine. I actually milled a little bit finer too. I didn't have any problems with grain passing through the bottom plate, blockages etc, like I did using it full volume, and got super clear wort. Also my BH...

IF you can afford to, then this, totally. I would have gone bigger if I had had the money to. Those 5 litres can make a big difference. I've never had more liquor into the boil than planned though, Beersmith 3 is pretty accurate with it's calculations once you get boil off etc right, but it's...

I had the same problem with selecting one to be honest, which was then made much simpler when I came to buy and discovered that the Klarstein systems were the only ones actually in stock, and of those the Brauheld Pro was the only one that peaked my interest. I mean, there are probably better...

30 litres, with a bit to spare for the boil (I just checked for you as it's been a while since I last brewed, been super busy working on the gardens here). Temps are on a par with my old PID setup I'd say, not had any problems with that side at all. Not had to calibrate boil temp either...

I find African coffees too fruity for my palate. I tried an Ethiopian one a few months back, it was like drinking weak fruit tea with just a hint of coffee to it. Pretty horrible to be honest. I prefer the dark fruit/caramel/chocolate/nut flavours you tend to get in South American coffees...

Just a tip, if you swap which side you use for wort, and which for water (if you can, mine has the same sized connections each side), each time you brew, it basically means you are flushing the chiller through for an extending period each brew day, in addition to your normal cleaning cycle. I...

To be honest, I never actually used my voltage controller for the boil, I used to pull the plug for my boiler and plug it in directly when it came time to boil. 1x2.5kw element just didn't need power control in a 33 litre stockpot I found. I used it when mashing though, combined with my PID...

Yeah, the rehoming option is, for us at least, a final option. We moved from our last home to escape similar behaviour, and had 8 peaceful years here, until a chap 2 doors down from us got out of prison a couple of years ago, and then all of this kicked off (we're pretty certain, and so are the...