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Hi Jamie, hope you still enjoyed the brew Making mistakes is all part of it. You learn from it and adjust for your next brew and then compare the difference :beer1: I was brewing on Saturday with my Dad and cousin for the second time on a new system and still made mistake, it'll be the 3rd or...

Cheers Aye it could be hard getting a quarter with them being so brittle lol I'll maybe try weighing it out and if it's too difficult or futtery I'll just go half

Great thread @strange-steve I had a few searches through this thread and a quick read through the water treatment on the main forum too but just have a brief question I'm only getting into water treatment now and have only done it with one 25litre batch where I added half a Campden tablet. I...

Great @Hoppyland that makes a lot of sense now athumb.. Actually thanks to you both (@peebee) - your answers here are giving me a good picture. We are brewing this weekend into the conical so will be able to put it into practice soon. The recipe calls for 19C for 60hrs main fermentation, then...

:laugh8: I know what you mean by the yeast squeezing, I have the same issue with my basic 1 gallon set up. BTW you asked in one of the previous posts why I would transfer to the bottling bucket - it was so that the hops from dry hopping could be filtered out and not enter the bottles. I assume...

Great cheers Regarding the fermentation trap I assume you mean an airlock or breather pipe? I suppose when you used to dump the trub out after primary it was a case of slowly emptying before the wort comes out lol

Yeah that was one of the reasons we went for it. That plus the jacket around it helping to control the temperature. Our plan is to ferment in the primary/conical and dry hop in it as well, however then transfer to a bottling bucket with a bit of extra filtration and then obviously bottle. You...

Bit of ignorance here but what do you mean by purging themselves and why would I have needed the CO2 cylinders Do you have a link for the video btw??

OK thanks. We have always bottled and carbed using the carb tablets so I never thought about the priming sugar, syrup etc. That makes more sense why the bottling bucket would be used. Do you know what the craft breweries do at this stage? Is it the same idea of going from fermenter to another...

cheers. Out of interest what sort of primary fermenter do you use?

Great thread folks athumb.. We've bought a speidel conical fermenter and we're wondering about when it comes to bottling. We were under the assumption we could bottle straight from it but I see a few people mentioning above about using a bottling bucket. Any advice? Or know of anyone on here...

Great LeeH/Beer at thanks good point

Looks good athumb.. did you use the same model PID for both then?

This is a great thread folks :thumbsup: I've been on looking as I want to build my own system (HLT and then a combined mash tun/boil kettle) so have obviously been looking for how to control the heat of the mash and boil, however, I didn't have a clue what PID sensors were, STCs, PT100s etc...

That's exactly the review was looking for about the greg hughes book athumb.. sounds exactly what I need ie to understand all the terms and processes.

:D happens me on a Sunday too. Good idea with the spent grain and the birds, I must try it. Bird feed isn't the cheapest

Brilliant Steve thanks Yeah I can use bottled no problem. I'll probably do that first go and that gives me time to figure out which of the other options to go with

Great info Steve I haven't started looking at water profiles yet so this is the first for me. I actually came on to see about how to reduce the calcium content to as low as possible for pumping through the cooling jacket on our braumeister plus. I appreciate this isn't for water to brew with...

Couldn't believe my luck when I found this thread - exactly what I was looking for Birthday coming up soon I wanted to give my wife a list of books to pick one from so I've since given her 4 from this list athumb..

That's good enough for me athumb.. thanks