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I rinse mine with water once I pour the beer and store them til bottling day. On bottling day they get 15-30 mins in vwp, rinse with water, drip dry on bottle tree, then a few squirts of starsan from a bottle washer, let most of the liquid drip out and fill with beer. The vwp is probably...

For much the same reasons as outlined above, I alternate between 5 and 12 litre batches for the following reasons: quicker to heat strike water lower weight of grains to lift/dispose of quicker ti reach boil quicker to cool post boil i can buy nicer kit in smaller sizes (ss brewtech brew bucket...

Oh yeah I’m Irish but lived in London for a number of years, and some of my best friends are English, but when it comes to sport I enjoy seeing you guys getting beaten 🙂

It’s not like the “anyone but England” mentality is without good reason 🤷‍♂️

To answer OP, I’m not sure how big of a batch you’re making, but I have done a few full volume biab mashes in a buffalo boiler with 15 litres of water and 3-5kg of grain and it doesn’t lose much temperature over a 1 hour mash, so you shouldnt need the heating element on. check your temperature...

https://brulosophy.com/2014/06/02/the-great-trub-exbeeriment-results-are-in/ I very rarely worry about trub unless I’m maxing out the capacity of my fermenter

21 March 2021: Pale Ale Batch Size: 11 litres Boil Time: 60 mins Mash water: 17.5L Total water: 17.5L Boil volume: 15.5L Vitals: Pre-boil gravity: 1.039 Original gravity: 1.048 Final gravity: 1.010 IBU: 37 Mash: 67 Celsius for 60 minutes Malts: 1.73kg (66%) crisp maris otter 380g (14.5%)...

Despite fermenting almost at ale temps, the Wyeast 2112 took a while longer than yeasts I’m used to before it finished! By day 5 it had hit target final gravity so I bumped the temperature up from 16 degrees to 19 degrees, planning to check back in two days to confirm it was finished, and start...

That’s a good idea actually, had never considered that myself. Don’t see why it wouldnt work but interested to hear others views.

Sorry, I was responding to your question around co2 flushing. I serve at 7-15 psi depending on the beer.

If priming with sugar I don’t, but if carbonating with co2 I do. I fill it with starsan and force it through the tap with co2, but that’ll use another bulb and is quite wasteful. I’m hoping to pick up a sodastream canister as I bought the adapter for my regulator.

I got an ikegger 5 litre keg in december and had a lot of the same questions you guys have prior to receiving it so hopefully I can impart some knowledge here. carbonating with co2: I put it in the fridge and hit it with max pressure in the regulator as soon as I fill the keg for 24 hours, and...

You can just reduce your batch size for bigger beers if needed

I removed the majority of the electrics from my buffalo and now it’s effectively a cable directly to the element, so it holds a strong rolling boil. I added a 3 piece 1/2” ball valve and a layer of reflectix and a full volume biab mash would only lose maybe 1 degree over an hour long mash, and...

Having faffed about with adapting a buffalo boiler, I say get the klarstein.

07 March 2021: California Common First brew day on the hacked together buffalo with recirculation and PID. Batch Size: 11 litres Boil Time: 60 mins Mash water: 15.31L Total water: 15.31L Boil volume: 13.46L Vitals: Pre-boil gravity: 1.043 Original gravity: 1.051 Final gravity: 1.014 IBU: 36...

I sort of forgot about updating this for the last brew, but I dry hopped it on Sunday 28Feb, and started cold crashing with a rag soaked in starsan over the bung hole on 2nd March. I filled 4 bottles and put the rest in my ikegger mini keg on 3rd March. So far the kegged beer has been delicious!

Health and safety didn’t sign off on beta testing setup but I can assure you it won’t be like this on brew day

here’s a clip of mine in action with h2o, auto tuning pid and leak testing

I bought the urn a few months ago, replaced the tap with a ball valve, and just used it to heat mash water up to temp, and stirred and checked temperature across the duration of the mash, carefully heating if needed. since then I have added a few quick disconnects, a dc pump, a pt100...