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OMG!! Im gonna board up the windows tomorrow, feck knows what will happen round here when there are no chicken nuggets to be had??? hoards of starving chavs without the ability to order anything else will be roaming the streets.. ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Bri, as soon as fermentation starts and alcohol is introduced the refractometer readings start getting effected and will deviate from a hydrometer gravity readings, So a refractometer is useful pre pitching, But post pitching the yeast your probably better off with a hydrometer reading...

If buying new i would consider a small chest freezer bearing in mind it will probably require a 4x2 or 6x2 constructed collar to increase the internal height to accommodate disconnects and beer/gas lines. And a weekly/biweekly exchange of the towel dropped in the bottom to absorb any...

looks like 1/2 a 'garth style' hop filter which is simply a mesh pocket or envelope feeding the kettle drain, some clever folk have sown SS mesh to create the filter, I bought 2 x £shop SS splatter guards pulled the handles off both and the rim off one and used the split beerline trick to...

congrats to the optomists who took a punt in time,, im happy to 'eat' my cynical post. welcome to the g/f owners club chaps.. you can always upgrade to a oneVessel brewing system stc1000+ https://github.com/matsstaff/stc1000p/blob/master/ovbsc/README.md

way to early to tell, give em a month or two and they will develop gender characteristics, my only experience is with rhizome propagation so am only familiar with the flowers.. google should provide pics of the male pollen sproutings and i suspect they may start shooting out earlier than the...

better get a grain bag then ;) enjoy..

was pretty sure that was the case, worth a double check tho..

@Jakeyboi i do hope you feed that from a regulated supply???? personally i would be more comfortable using threaded pipe fittings.

email Norm [email protected] aka Corny Norm, ive not bough from him for a few years now but he sells on ebay and is known to sell good stuff at a reasonable price and is expert on all things corny. however a diy job employing aquarium regulators may be a better home option if at all...

its a bit (teeney bit) risky what with airborne wild yeast, but any invaders will be in tiny numbers compared to what you would normally pitch post boil so i doubt you will loose much OG if any fingers crossed.. just keep it lidded Lots of folk wil perform an overnight mash so its not that...

they will develop male/female characteristics in yr 1 BUT!! you cant get any established hop varieties from seed, Every beer hop comes from a cloned plant. the hop plants sexual reproduction involves male and female plants its the female flowering plants that we want as any seeds produced...

nice way to get a quick injection of cash into a business over a weekend before emptying the accounts once funds have cleared perhaps? but i have always been a tad cynical.. the stock 'engineer pics' on the about-us page of the site dont scream 'hombrewers' to me either..

with both fridges i bypassed the thermostat in i traced the wires back to the compressor itself, in both cases iirc the brown live feed had returned from the thermostat on a black wire, so feeding my fridge with an earth neutral and live feed connected to yellow/green, blue, and black in my...

Probably a lot easier in the long run just to raid the cereal boxes as needed, cornflakes make a fine substitute for any flaked maize requierments, and no brand wheat bricks are an easy substitute for wheat additions (flaked/torrified/etc). And rolled oats are rolled oats..

too late for this sesssion but get yourself some thin walled silicone tube, its very very elastic and can easily be stretched, ebay will provide you with lots of choices, a 1mm wall thickness is ideal, but thicker walled tube still works well just takes a bit more encouragiing onto hard tube...

Ha am glad i added that gallon note now, almost everyone falls for it though usually when building a recipe and not buying hardware.. the other metric that can cause some confusion especially if diy kettle building, is the BSP standard, for example the 1/2" bsp sized fitting popular for drain...

with a basic mo malt bill a brief diactyl rest post primary seems to clear the brew nicely, though i will often leave the primary for a full week regardless of gravity readings. and even then most beers benefit from at least 4 weeks to mature post conditioning. One brew was quaffaable within...

try different yeast, brews, using salsafe-S-04 brewing mainly Smash brews with MO with a target OG 1:045-1:050 and a fermentation temp of 19c primary is regularly complete within 4-5 days, a further 24hours with the temp set to 21c prior to 24-48 hours @ 0C to crash chill prior to kegging means...

wow top shelf options there, unless your looking at induction heating many of us are more than satisfied using modified stainless steel catering stock pots. £30-£40 iirc for a 50l lidded pot tho its been a few years since i last bought a pot. and the thin skins of the pots make them a doddle...