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I concur on the reserve kits - find them excellent and well worth the extra money. I don’t drink white normally so have brewed their Sauvignon blanc for the wife which I thought tasted okay but she wasn’t all that impressed. Not had a bad red reserve yet, find them far better than supermarket...

Good advice here thank you. I’m new to pressure fermenting and wanted my beer fairly well carbonated. But yeah I may have overdone it first time around. Time will tell, but I’ll keep ya all in the loop. Thanks all for the advice and pointers 👍🏻

I can’t believe I was so stupid to miss this. It’s in a serving keg! 🤦‍♂️

Hey experts. So, first attempt at pressurised fermentation recently using a corny keg and a keg land sounding valve. I was expecting fermentation to take a little bit longer than traditionally but it’s been in the keg sitting around 19C for almost 6 weeks now (cranked up at 21C for the last week...

I somehow missed this originally, but if you’re ever on the mainland waiting for a ferry drop me a message if you fancy a blether. I live in Halkirk (6 miles from Thurso) and work in Thurso 3 days a week. Highly recommend the distillery just a few mins from Scrabster by the way (Wolfburn)...

What I do with my bottles is put some crushed ice in my bottle cleaner device (you know the one you put the bottle over and push it down a few times as the starsan/other sanitiser squirts up). - this seems to reduce the temp in the bottles enough that it reduces foaming. Works for me anyway :-)

I sometimes do this but when moving the wort from mash tun to boiler or boiler to FV. I just leave my bag steeped in starsan and then filter through it. Gets the worst of the bits out and I think helps with a cleaner beer. Never had any probs.

I’m near Thurso (Halkirk). If you still plan this far north let me know, I’m usually working from home on a Tuesday so might be able to grab half an hour for a quick blether! Not many real ale places up here. The comm bar in Thurso usually has a cask ale on (but just one pump). The Ulbster arms...

Dairylea 😜 Can’t wait til tomorrow! Why, what we doing? Errr watching you kiss Veronica dribbleweight! 😂 One of my favs from yesteryear 😉

Can’t …. … tomorrow. Why?

Not quite a polish 😂 Just a good scrub and clean on the outside. I wondered if they were so dirty that it was throwing them off so they thought they were hotter than the actual surrounding water temp? Either way - they seem to be working fine now….probably until the next brew day! 😜

Have this a blast today with just a small amount of water but up to boiling temp and happy to report that both elements seem to be working perfect! Looks like they just needed a good scrub and polish 🤓

Thanks guys, good info here, much appreciated! I’m going to give it another go with water now that I’ve cleaned them up and see how it goes. I’ll keep you up to date 👍🏻

Here’s a few pics of the elements. They would click in (and turn on) for a short period, maybe a minute or so and then click off. Like some sort of relay? These are pics AFTER cleaning. Should gave taken before pics, but they weren’t overly baked.

There is no thermostat though (unless there is one built into the element?) - it’s just a straight power cord to the each element. Yep - power draw drops when they click out 😞

Had a brew day last Saturday using my 60L kettle. All was going okay - mashed in left for an hour, sparged, transferred to kettle and turned my two heating elements on. Then came lots of waiting! The elements kept “clicking” off and on so after about an hour and a half I was only at 94C and not...

More of Sarah ☺️ she must make a lot of sacrifices for you to be in that brewery so much (although mine quite enjoys the peace and quiet!) but she seems really supportive. Is she helping with anything behind the scenes? What’s her take on the whole project? A slightly different angle on things...

Cool thanks @MashBag, I'll adjust accordingly. Would 7 corny kegs of beer count as thermal mass? :laugh8: That's currently what I have in there - and I can squeeze an 8th back in there now that I don't have to faff about with that thermostat/control unit. I think I'm going to get the STC...

Ah cool thanks. I think that’s fine then - this is the chart over about a 6 hour period. Seems pretty good to the untrained eye?

I’ve got both and inkbird 308 and a spare STC-1000. I use my inkbird on brew days. Would I be better getting another or is the STC just as good/better? What’s the recommended delay for the fridge setting then? I know I could google it but I trust you guys more 😬