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It depends what's meant by "better" too. Guinness Rockshore (lager) for example, I'd bet less than one in ten thousand amateur brewers would have enough mastery of the brewers art to create something so lacking in taste. The nearest thing to alcoholic fizzywater I've ever tried by far and making...

If you're anywhere near the Dublin/West Wicklow border I could certainly use a few. Almost run out of space and I'd been planning on making some wooden crates if the local boozers can't spare any.

Would putting it on a bathroom scale work? Take a note of the empty weight and you should know it's about out when it's within a kilo or so.

+1, using a under counter sized freezer here and it works really well, only needs to run for about 5 minutes in an hour at peak fermentation to keep temperatures in check. It does overshoot a little on cooling, only about half a degree. It's not a problem and adding a fan should easily halve...

0.5 deg heating and 0.3 deg cooling here as I'm getting about 0.4 deg overshoot after refrigeration. A small fan should reduce that to less than the 0.3 deg minimum setting, just haven's got around to putting one in there yet.

Same here, brewing small batches to try out lots of different things though and there are only so many colours available. Splitting batches to try out different yeasts too and different colour bottles helps there. Going to check out those sample bottles of house paint at some stage, can probably...

Thanks. I seem to be getting the balling too, might try a different brand sometime just in case but finding it really good otherwise, nice clean taste, drops clear in no time etc. I'd wondered about it because another yeast doesn't seem to be acting as it should either, gervin gv12, supposed to...

A quick question on 05 if that's ok, do you get a kind of slimy stuff bubbling up on top of the krausen after fermentation peaks? So far I've had it every time with 05 and will be leaving extra space in the FV in the future as it's come through the airlock a couple of times. Just wondering if...

No end of it never reach the headlines. Credit card details for example, more than a billion leaked (accounts, not necessarily unique individuals), but only the big names ever get reported in the news and even then only briefly. There's a good chance the way the internet works will flip over...

A variant of that stout from earlier in that thread (occums razor) was my second try at AG, its only a few days in the bottle at the mo and I'm already blown away by it athumb.. Made 2 gallons split into 2 demijohns with US-05 in one and S-04 in the other and was surprised by how much difference...

Fluid to fluid heat exchange is very efficient so copper should be a little better but probably only by a very small amount, maybe not even noticeable with ambient and water temp variations. A week or so ago someone mentioned using a second a pre-cooling coil inline, in a bucket of iced water...

Read up a bit on fermentation pressures after, pressure breaks down the yeast cell walls and the most they'll survive to is about 35psi. Tried pitching with the saved yeast yesterday too, worked but I'll be doing things a bit different the next time: Had them out of the fridge for about 3 hours...

A bit of everything, most of it not nearly ready but my first go at AG is pretty close and has got my hooked already :) One thing that deserves a mention though, Guinness's Rockshore "Irish Larger". I'm taking their word for it that there's alcohol in this 'cos it's the closest thing to...

Lol, maybe a used toughbook, the more recent models are waterproof! ;)

Thanks :) Post 15 is interesting too, seems 35psi is about the limit. I'm guessing that's plenty for pouring but would it be enough for carbonating? Temperature is mentioned in another of the posts and there might be something interesting in it, controlling the temp of the fermentation vessel to...

What if you mixed up a cheap as chips brew, probably just sugary water and yeast and let it do it's thing in a pressure vessel, maybe something like a food grade plastic weed sprayer with a relief valve... would it be enough to run something like a corny keg? Someone had mentioned trying to...

Have you any idea roughly what percentage of total fermentables that would be? Sounds interesting, I've a bottle of that syrup here and very tempted to have a go at a small batch of AG with it :) It'd be more like a pale ale than a pilsner without putting in an order though, better to wait a...

Potentially the same as highly overcarbonated bottles if the yeast keeps working away, explosive pressures! I think a rag or bit of kitchen towel stuffed into the tops might do the job, maybe moistened with a sterilising solution.

From what I've heard it should be fine after a month and 3 or 4 months seems fairly common but whether my procedures, hygiene etc. is up to standard for those kind of times... I'd certainly have no hesitation in re-pitching with it after the week or so it's been in the fridge so far and will...

Congrats on finding that :) I'd been scouring adverts.ie for about a week before biting the bullet and ordering a new one. Kind of glad I didn't see the Woodies ones earlier too, I got one afterwards and they're kind of tinny compared to the one I got first, really thick base with no burning or...