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I tasted it and it tastes ok but still quite sweet. I took a gravity reading and from memory, I'm not sure it has fermented. At first I thought the high FG might be because of absorption of CO2 by being at low temperature for an extended period pushing the hydrometer up, but I'm wondering if it...

Hi all, A few weeks ago, I brewed a non-alcoholic beer (<1% abv). I'd done it before with good results but this time I tweaked it slightly and the OG was even lower than expected. I then pitched some old yeast. Had a taste after a week or so and it wasn't too bad but not great. Then my son was...

Tastes fantastic. Probably the best I've made, I reckon (this being my third cider). I racked to another vessel onto 7 crushed campden tablets and purged with co2. Will backsweeten and bottle in the next few days. The skin was left down the side of the carboy (see pics). The one that fermented...

Couldn't get a very good zoom on the microscope, unfortunately, so perhaps inconclusive...

Thanks. I think I'm going to give it a taste and all being well, rack it into a corny keg for treatment with campden and back sweetening, then bottle it up... All being well, that is. If I do manage to get it under a microscope, I'll stick the pics up here if I can!

Evening all, I have researched this a bit on other threads and in other forums and I'm not sure what new information I'm expecting to find here, but here goes... I collected about 70kg of apples back in August/September and had then pressed into juice. The juice started fermenting on its own...

I use something called Chemclean, which I think is basically sodium percarbonate. It says it's suitable for use in hard water, but perhaps it isn't. Still, from pictures I've seen of beer stone, it doesn't look quite like it. I hope it isn't beerstone as that's apparently a real pain in the neck...

I don't think so. I believe beer stone is a brown/yellow kind of colour and this is definitely white, like chalk, and I can scratch it off with my fingernail.

Frustrated at not being able to get above about 55% efficiency when mashing above 5kg of grain in my Klarstein all in one, and at the variability of extraction efficiency making recipe formulation very difficult, I decided to try a kind of batch sparge method today, and extraction was miles...

Evening all, I've a bit of a frustrating problem with my fermenters and wonder if someone could advise... I use a glycol chiller for regulating temperature of fermentations, which involves a stainless steel coil immersed in the fermenting wort. The coils have started to develop a white powdery...

The impeller turns when I spin it by hand, so there's not anything sticking it. I think there's an issue with the motor.

Well, now my pump won't work at all! When I turn it on, it doesn't spin. I've disassembled to see if I can get it to spin without the head attached, and it doesn't (I have another one that does, so I know it should). I guess there's an issue with the motor. Had anyone successfully disassembled...

Sorry for slow reply... Wanted to take a picture and took a while getting round to it. It's black plastic, as you can see:

I don't know if they're still going... I googled them and the only thing that took me anywhere was a Facebook page. I emailed them from there but haven't had a response yet. Do you have a contact email for them @foxy ?

Thanks all. @foxy It was a non-boil impeller that broke, actually. I only use it to recirculate the mash. I will email Kaixin, but I'm definitely interested. Cheers.

here is a picture of the pump if it's of any use.

Evening all, Today I was giving my Klarstein all in one a good cleaning, and removed the box that accommodates the pump. It was a bit of a faff, and I thought in for a penny, so thought I'd give the pump impeller a good clean. Unfortunately, I dropped it and one of the blades split. It hasn't...

Hi all, I bought a glycol chiller and am looking at setting it up with detachable hoses. I imagine regular plastic Hozelock type fittings will probably leak. Would brass hose fittings be suitable or do I need to be looking at fancy fluid fittings like you see in garages and workshops that will...

Yes, this is a really important factor. Aside from clogging, this would be my main concern.

Hi. This sounds interesting, but I can't find out what a helix filter is! Do you have a link you could share? Thanks!