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I think Peebee and I are using these units differently. I circulate water through the ‘product’ (they are used for fizzy drinks too) coils, while he circulates the water that is in the internal tank. Which goes to show that there is more than one way to skin a cat!

I have anti-freeze added to the tank as my brewery can get below freezing in winter. You need the stirrer to transfer the low temperature between the coils. I added an external thermostat, with its sensor in the water tank, to shut the lot down when the water is cold enough, as the stirrer made...

The chillers are basically just a deep freeze compressor unit whose copper cooling coils are in a plastic tank of water. Also in the tank are one or more coils of stainless steel tubing through which the beverages to be cooled run. An electric fan blows air through a small radiator to cool the...

Sorry about getting the Brewer's name wrong, I must have mis-heard as that is what is written in my log. He went on to become Head Brewer of course. I'll think about what you said.

HSD, which stood for Hicks (the founder of St Austell Brewer) Special Draught, but was universally known throughout Cornwall as High Speed Diesel, was one to look out for at one time. Then it inexplicably failed to please, leading to the Brewery becoming known as St Awful. I am delighted to say...

Without buying a bottle, I don’t know if it is bottle-conditioned or pasteurised. If the former there is no reason not to culture from it.

No you haven’t, I use two – one to control the temperature of my Fermenting Vessel, and another to control my Beer Store. Chillers are Maxi units, controllers similar to an Inkbird, and pumps are central heating units. I had a bit of a problem with the stirrer motors, which drive a model ship...

If it is of interest, a 47Kg propane bottle does 9 Gyles, each producing about 30 gallons of beer. This works out at about 3p a pint.

Yes it is.

Due to the expense of getting the mains brought here, I ran on a 4½ KVa Lister Start-o-matic for nearly 10 years, so when I was building my 1 bbl brewery it had to be gas-fired. This is the 80,000 Btu/hr propane burner from the Copper (which is just to the left of it). I would imagine you’d...

I have never checked the pH of anything in my life, but have brewed a lot of superb beer nevertheless.

27/3/1992 VISIT TO FULLERS BREWERY, CHISWICK. Another Minibus tour organised by The Hop Shop. We were shown around the Brewery by a girl, who thankfully realised we were a group of hands-on brewers, not the usual Camra piss artists, and called in the Assistant Brewer John Keeler to answer our...

I use a 25Kg sack of Pale malt, and 1½Kg each of crystal malt and wheat malt, which is the same ratio the Brewery was using at one time. Is yours about the same? I forget which and how much hops they used, I tend to use First Gold for bittering and Goldings for aroma.

Guess which is Jail Ale from Morrisons (partially de-gassed in the large jug), and CD’s Jail Ale Clone, three months since brewing. The amount of head gives it away, and I forgot which was which whilst drinking them!

Dartmoor Bitter features in one more Log Book entry:- ADVANCED BREWING AND TASTING COURSE. 23/1/99 Dr Keith Thomas of Brewlab liked my beer. Quote ‘I prefer that to the beer I had at lunchtime. I could drink a pint of that’. So better than ‘Dartmoor’ from St Awful Brewery. I should think...

I reckon that I have perfected a beer that suits me, and as I first brewed in 1955 I bloody well ought to have done by now! Sadly all good things come to an end, and our next brew could well be our penultimate, if not our last. Mind you I’ve been saying that for about 10 years now . . ...

If it hadn’t been for that remark in my Brewery Log, this beer mat would seem a bit of a travesty, and would certainly upset Dartmoor Brewery. It’s an odd mat, made of glass, and found by my grandson in a charity shop I think. I’ll ask him when he gets back from the Boardmasters Surf Festival at...

I don't brew very often.

Those are the beers brewed by Halls Brewery, where I got my yeast from. My batch size is only 36 gallons!

I thought this page from my Brewery Log might be of interest. August 1995. BAD NEWS. PLYMPTON BREWERY CLOSING. Allied Breweries decided to close this excellent small brewery after some 11 years. Idiots. Heard this when leaving tub for yeast. All 3 employees, Ian, Stefan & ? given 90 days...