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Thanks chaps will check with my multimeter. My LED does get brighter as I turn the dial up, the fan gives a little judder at around 70% dial turn as though trying to spin but never gives more than a little judder. Fan spins perfectly when wired direct to power. Am I looking for 12volts on the...

Might be the power supply, 5a. Pwm I ordered is 3a. Will try a 2a supply, hope I haven't fried the pwm!

What did you have to do to get it working, My bits arrived from China and I'm having similar issues but I do have a red LED on when powered up. Fan spins when wired directly to power, but won't spin when wired through the PWM. Power supply is 12v 5A. Any ideas?

I don't own cornies but have been tempted a number of times to invest - this is a good deal on 3 pack of used ones I think, don't forget the 5% forum discount code available also: http://www.thehomebrewcompany.co.uk/a-used-corny-kegs-pack-of-3-19lt-ball-lock-p-2796.html The malt miller looked...

Sounds like its progressing well, take a gravity reading with a hydrometer to check its at or around Final Gravity (usually 1.008 - 1.012 ish). If FG is where it should be and definately finished primary fermentation fully its normal to rack a lager off to a clean FV to get it off the trub then...

Maybe try a simple Single Malt and Single Hop (SMASH) pale ale next time and then grow from there, maybe adding a small amount of crystal malt for your brew the time after. 5kg of Marris Otter 100g of your favourite hop should produce a very good pale ale around 5% and is an easy recipe to put...

A NEIPA relies on really soft water, lots of hops late in the boil/flameout, yeast selection and typically is dry hopped very early (2-3 days) into primary fermentation. Its a very ambitious first brew, but this thread could be useful to you...

A gentle stir of the bottling bucket after filling makes sense, just to fairly evenly distribute the priming sugar through the wort prior to bottling.

Work on 1.5 or 1.6ml per litre of water - so for 2 litres of water use 3.0 - 3.2ml I use a both a hand sprayer plus have 5l mixed in a bottle which I use and re-use Hand Sprayer is great for spraying into taps and spraying lids to use them as resting sanitised trays for spoons etc 5litre...

Your local chemist will likely give you free a small 5ml syringe - the sort of thing you use to measure out calpol for a baby. Handy for measuring out star san. I use 1.6ml in a 1 litre hand sprayer, and 8ml in a bottle of 5ltre water I use and re-use a good number of times until it gets bits...

Thanks Fil, and yes the lamp shade spacer was made to measure and just the shape for the job, actually used 2 slotted together as they are quite thin so thought 2 together would beaf things up a bit - worked a treat. Just wished I'd bought the thermopot without a tap, would have been cheaper...

Its taken a while, and I've used the thermopot a couple if times with a makeshift tap fitted, but now got the bits together for a permanent tap fitting. Thought this may help others trying to fit a tap to a thermopot. All based on cutting a 21mm hole to the inner skin and a 40mm hole to the...

Links posted on page 2 of this thread buddy: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65471&page=2

My first second hand fridge off ebay wouldn't go lower than 7°C, picked up another one off ebay and it goes down to 4°C no problem. I only have room for one fridge in my garage so skipped the first one and running the good one only now. Seems to be luck of the draw with a second hand one...

Not tried any myself either but noticed they do a good few which are bottle conditioned so guess you could build up some yeast from the trub left in the bottles after pouring.

At work now, used just 5kg pilsner malt and cascade hops, want it to come out about 30ibus and 5% abv. Gravity down to 1010 after 6 days fermenting at 13°C, had a taste of the sample and it does have that crisp lager taste to it, so very promising at this early stage.

Nice one, always good when a brew day goes to plan

Sounds good,what yeast you using? I've got a pilsner fermenting at the moment using Saflager 34/70.

Sound great, would you mind posting your recipe buddy ?

You can store any left overs in the freezer to use on a future brew - hops can be expensive and 90g is enough for your dry hop, saving 15g of each or whatever for your next brew makes sense.