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Again dont use a CFC but have a plate chiller and always leave it full of starsan when not in use, obviously following a good flush through and hot PBW or whatever cleaner I'm using. Also obviously circulate boiling wort through it for the last 10 mins or so of the boil too. No issues as yet.

I can recommend the fermzilla type of fermenter..I think having a pressure capable fermenter is useful even if you don't want to do pressure fermentation....handy if you want to use a hop dropper to do fully purged and O2 free dry hopping, also very useful for pressure transfers. I also have a...

Yeah I guess Ford has form...they did a decent job in the early 2000's with the new GT40, but the latest GT40, as great a car as I'm sure it is, doesn't bear much resemblance to the orginal in terms of aesthetics or the ethos of the car. And the new LR Defender couldn't be further removed form...

Yeah, a cynical marketing ploy...and that's coming from someone who works in marketing! Have no issue with re-interpretation of an older car, even if its in EV form, but it has to have some level of recognisable attributes linking it to the original. BMW have done this very very well with the...

Does anyone like the diving and play-acting? I doubt they do. It's become part of the sport..like drugs in cycling and athletics, and many other sports I'm sure...just tolerated and as long as everyone is upto it then nobody has an advantage. Even my footie mates don't even register it now, in...

Not a footie fan at all, bunch of overpaid diving play-acting cheating b'stard diva's if you ask me...but I've always watched England and really rooting for them to win. Love the international banter...I work for a company that employs people from all over the world and football does seem to be...

I've heard Fermentors are like kegs...they breed...

I like your man-maths!

That works, though if you're serving from that vessel too then it just ties up your fermenter until you've drunk all your beer. I just decant into corny kegs..I have a cheap counter pressure bottle filler if I want to pull off some bottles, and that seems to work fine for me. The only complaint...

Yes but open vessels dont mean the fermenting beer is exposed to air...the Krausen protects the beer from the air and before the Krausen subsides and drops the beer is transferred to another vessel to avoid any contact with air.

All good stuff but if you consider cask conditioning as a form of double dropping though the beer is relatively safe whilst in the cask, I presume due to secondary fermentation that takes place, as soon as the cask is tapped and beer starts to be drawn and air introduced into the headspace then...

Interested in the difference between oxygenating and aerating...I kind of assume to increase the level of oxygenation (i.e. dissolved oxygen) you aerate....Its dissolved oxygen that is what's important so by aerating are you not increasing oxygenation?

Not so sure at home brew volumes any additional wort oxygenation is required. The yeast will only 'consume' as much oxygen as it needs and any dissolved oxygen that is not needed will start the process of oxidising the beer and shorten shelf life and suck any flavour and aroma from your beer...

I'd be inclined to leave it. If the lid is not good you'll be fine during fermentation. As long as the lid is mostly sealed then your o2 pick up will be minimal post fermentation. You'll have a column of CO2 sat on the beer filling the bucket space and though some 02 will diffuse through any...

Depending on the diameter of the chiller ends you might be able to use a John Guest fitting. The chiller that came with my brewzilla came with stainless steel compression fittings which I could attach normal garden hose connectors onto.

I just get the marigolds on and give everything a jolly good scrub with hot water, washing detergent and a non-stick pan scrubber to avoid scratching or scuffing the surface. Will get rid of any grease/film on the surface. Any loose parts get a cycle through the dishwasher. Job done. It's...

Actually the Keykeg company take them back and say they re-cycle them via their own process. There was a polish (I think) company who made a re-usable key keg-like solution...think you just needed to buy a new bag. I tried to contact them to make some enquiries, but never got a reply. I like...

Well a conversation with someone who was a lifetime career brewer with the big macro breweries and has all the academic qualifications as well as Phd, maybe two, said that the big macro breweries use their lab analysis to determine the exact boil time for the brew depending on what they're...

never got soap from coriander and have made saisons with coriander myself several times not to mention many curries over the years laden with the stuff. Haven't touched it for over 20 years though. Maybe time to revisit.

Well if anything can grow in starsan solution then either a new form of life has spontaneously evolved or contamination with an alien lifeforms with a whole different kind of organic chemistry has occurred. Not sure either of those things is likely possible in my little garage :laugh8: Think...