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Yeah, I only juiced 4 large oranges by hand (with a fork... lol) after zesting them. I'd go with 8 maybe. 4 was perfect for 14 litres into FV, so you should get some flavour from 8 in 20 litres for sure, with quite a good orange flavour. The type of orange I used, combined with the cascade...

Possibly, but the amount of sugars in juice you squeeze from 4 oranges is quite small, so I wouldn't worry about it. Most of the flavour comes from the orange zest and the yeast with this to be honest, I just used the juice to increase the acidity a little and to use more of the oranges, rather...

This is a quite delicious pale ale, infused with the flavour of oranges. Deliciously summery and ready quite quickly. I brewed it full volume, aiming for 14 litres into FV, so if you want more you will need to scale the recipe. Recipe was calculated for an estimated brewhouse efficiency of...

Ok, we just split a bottle of the Squirrel Brows orange infused pale ale again (my wife and I), and I have to reconsider my opinion on the MO malt. A bit more conditioning, and the flavour has blended in really nicely, all of the flavour have. It has a predominantly delicious orangey flavour...

Given how many older people there are on this forum, you would thing that more would be familiar with old sayings, and not get so far up their own rear ends when one is used... I stand by it though, if you spend £75 for a small pressure fermenter that FORCES you to only ever use extract kits...

A larger capacity one usually allows you to brew with a larger grain bill, allowing you to brew higher ABV beers without reducing the volume you brew so much, where a smaller machine just won't handle it. If you want to save modifying, have a look at the standard Klarstein Beerfest, or...

Mine came with an auto shut off, as it's a tanked system that came with a "faucet" (which I replaced with a plastic ball valve tap so I could tuck it away in a cupboard). You can buy a complete kit though, with float valve, for just over £12 from RO-Man.

I have the 30 litre version, and yes I'd recommend them. HOWEVER, I'd also recommend if you do go for one that you also invest in your own malt mill. The holes in the bottom of the malt basket are a tad large, and if you buy pre-crushed you get a LOT of particles going straight through and...

I've massively reduced how much stock I keep in this time around compared to the last go around. I used to buy 25kilo sacks of different malts, order hops "just in case" then put them in the freezer etc... All that happened was I ended up binning loads when I had an enforced break. This time...

A quick google for other sources says the same thing, so yeah probably. I just know on the aquarium side folks found that using dechlorinator they were left with ammonia or ammonium which wasn't wanted, which left them either having to filter with zeolite/zeolith, or just use activate carbon...

I have to be honest, I've not seen silicone rubber used in seals very often. Most products I have bought come with the advise to use food grade lubricant, which is silicone based, as opposed to petroleum based. Bungs on the other hands, lots of those are silicone rubber, apart from the ones...

I'd use a silicone based lubricant, rather than Vaseline, just in case the seals are rubber.

I used to use one, now I just use tap water and treat it with campden tablet and CRS/AMS to adjust the alkalinity. If you are wanting to treat because you have chloramine in your tap water, I would recommend looking into carbon block filters before you look at RO. They don't produce waste...

They keep the sun of ruddy everything... lol We have trees too on our back, it takes a heck of a hot and sunny day for it to get hot in our back garden! This also means during storms you have to worry about falling branches too, buuuut on the flip side they give a fair bit of shelter from...

That storm photo was taken on a summer day recently Foxy... lmao British summer.... lol

Ours has an external vent on the side of the house, massive big fan assembly thing up inside the hood, huge hood.... It actually worked ok when I had my ACE under there, as the top of the ACE was closer to it, and narrower. But when I used my DIY rig it had a larger surface area (so more boil...

You think that fools and their money aren't easily parted? 🤪 Not often you see somebody who decides to stand up for fools.... lol

Or, if you are loaded, buy a Braumeister. You can then buy the optional hood for it, and duct it outside.... lol Anyway, apparently experts want us all to spend more time outside anyway, so heh.... Get yer coat on.... lol My gazebo soon warms up once the boil gets going, and come the really...

Yeah, they're much easier to use for sure, and made it much easier to tidy up the cabling. lol Not that it matters any more, as it's gone up the loft. lol My box used to get put away after each brew day. No garage or utility room here, so I was brewing on top of the cooker. A right PITA to...

I've used Kviek multiple times, and at ambient temps it doesn't ferment out in 3 days. lol I can't see a power cable on that kit anywhere? Claiming shorter fermentation times than is the truth though, for an LME kit, is nothing new, par for the course really. It's just a fancy FV, that ties...