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Tin foil won't stop any oxygen getting in. I assume that "no problems" means that "whilst oxygen got in, it didn't cause any problems", which I think answers Wrh's point. I don't cold crash, but I expect that oxygen getting in will be a problem for high hop beers, and 'traditional' levels of...

That's been my reasoning for choosing to go with cordless 😆. But each person has their own preferences

What does that do? Edit: Oh, only to prevent the airlock liquid getting sucked back in... not to prevent oxygen getting back in. Gotcha

Like a lot of things, it probably depends on your usage. If it's just a light amount of use or out away from power sockets (in the woods etc) then battery would be better. If you want to do a lot and would fear the batteries would'nt last and are close to a power source, then corded may be better.

chains are all fairly standard sizes. You can measure the size of the teeth with a set of calipers if you have them. I think it may even say it on the chain. I bought my file about a year ago and can't remember what I did, but I'm a complete novice and bought the right one so there must be...

Whilst both the beer and airspace shrink as they cool down, I think that only has a marginal impact. what has a much bigger impact (from what I've read) is that the CO2 in the headspace is much more soluble in the cold beer and so more of the headspace dissolves back into the beer. The end...

You should start a petition to change what HMRC insist people use when commercially brewing beer.

Yes, it can. If you attach a CO2 reservoir or a balloon filled with CO2 to your fermenter, it'll prevent air being sucked back in

It's always the way!!!

+1 to this. Also, has the airlock been topped up enough? I've done that one too

That's what I have. Works very well

Very possibly a blunt blade. I have a pruning saw, which is basically a mini chain saw. The chain needs sharpening every few uses (this is the same with big chain saws too). You can get a file on the internet for under a tenner, and there are some good tutorial videos out there

My ispindel is in a brew at the moment. But there are two usb ports. The "other one" is the standard ESP2866 port, which I think should allow you to power the device, rather than charge the battery. If that's true, then you can probably pull the sled out, maybe remove the battery and plug the...

I don't, I'm afraid

I normally have radio 2 on in the morning as background - up until The Daily Mail letter Personified comes on at 12, then I switch to Spotify. I'm going to have to find something else for the mornings until Christmas is over (or I get whammed)

Hell no. It just finished at a higher gravity than intended. Nothing 'wrong' with it.

I've had a few stuck fermentations in the past. Some of those have been when the yeast took off like the clappers, generated a lot of heat, and then stalled when the temperature dropped. Here is the last one I did with S-04 that stalled at 1.020. One potential explanation is that by brewing in...

I've never been keen on Banks. Jennings Cumberland is lovely. I can't I've had Mansfield (my dad used to drink it back in the 80s/90s). Boondoggle is a decent pint, sad to see that go (same for Thumper).

With a few fining additions, you get get "pretty clear" beer into the fermenter. This is what I get with a small protafloc addition a bit of whirlpooling and relying on the simple hop filter that you get with the grainfather which is designed to stop the pump clogging. No special filtering in...