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So I'm working my way through attempting various recipes I've created as concepts, some of which are based on folk songs. Dark Honey is such a muse, and is about bees swarming in a cemetery, supping on the nectar of the flowers on the graves. Sounds morbid, but I guess that's the juxtaposition...

Ideally available in the south west, but willing to travel a bit. If you've been thinking of selling yours, let me know!

Well, I imagine there is somewhere to start, like "~cm if you're ~ tall" sort of guidelines, rather than a fixed amount. For example, I read somewhere that if you stood upright with the workbench behind you, and rested your hands on the workbench, it should fit comfortably under your palms with...

I am fitting out the workshop space that came with the rental to use as a brewery, which means whatever bench height I want that suits me. How do I know how tall the bench should be? It will have on top a mash/boil kettle (changing for an AIO eventually which will be 67cm high, or 80cm when the...

Yes, I contacted the water supplier for the report in the first place. I replied asking for more detail. They said there was no further information, unfortunately. My landlady says they are very difficult and the owner is, in the words of her husband, a bit of a see you next Tuesday.

Ah interesting, I'll look into that thank you. Yes, I'm planning on getting the filtered water analysed too. My mains supplier has a pretty useless water report, frankly. Nothing on what disinfectant they use, carbonates, alkalinity, let alone mineral profile.

This is what I had in mind, glad someone else thought of the same thing. As for whether or not a filter can achieve the volume of water required, Brita have a system that can process mains water and each cartridge lasts 34hL. As my brews won't be using more than 35-40L at a time, this gives me...

Oh for sure, but the pH change, along with the drop in scaling, does indicate it does in fact remove carbonates. Whilst boiling does cause precipitation of carbonates, they don't go anywhere, they're still in the kettle and can be transferred over. Furthermore, they will precipitate on the...

For sure, but it's not easily measurable and repeatable in the sense that the results may not be the same every time.

I guess I will either have to Heath Robinson it, or just continue using the jug for now, considering it does the job, albeit slowly.

My filter jug water did not scale up my kettle and reduced pH by nearly 2 points. How else could it do this if not for removing the carbonates that make the water hard? I'm not sure why you put temporary hardness in quotes, are you not familiar with the term? What exactly do you think it is I...

I'm not being unfriendly. I'm just tired of people who answer questions not being asked like this wasn't something I had thought about and decided against. Frankly I was as polite about it as can be. Regardless, I have put both on ignore.

Why are people obsessed with giving the response of "just use a campden tablet" on every platform, when that's not what I asked? If that's what I wanted to do, I would do that. But that's not what I asked for and so it's not helpful. If you don't want to answer the question, just scroll on.

I'm looking to get a filtration unit for my brewing water, but I'm not interested in getting a RO filter. My water is pretty decent so I just want to get rid of temporary hardness (some of it anyway), chlorine and anything that might negatively affect the wort. I'm basically looking to preserve...

Ah great, my girlfriend passes nearby on the way home from work, handy!

I need tubing for running my wort from my kettle to my counterflow, but it always kinks with the heat affecting the flow. How can I avoid this? Thicker walls? Specially coated tubing? It's very frustrating.

The brewery I work for switched from verdant to saturated. It sucks. It took far longer, lacks the fruity contribution and is a poor flocculator. And no, yeast in suspension is not the basis for good haze! So we switched back to Verdant, which we won gold at BeerX with, in our hazy. All but our...

I'm also looking to find out! Can you let us know what exactly you did?

Hmm, the taps aren't really very secure for piping, there's no circulation and none of them seem to get big enough for me. I want a final batch size of 30L. Still, the lack of compatibility with SS conicals etc, and can't be amended to be so, is off putting. I think I'll stick with looking for...

Interesting, how? All I've read, because I considered getting one before, is that they have a switch to prevent it ever actually getting to boiling temps due to a chip inside.