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I bottle directly from the tap ish. I sanitise a bucket with a tap on and run the star san out through the tap then transfer from the secondary FV to the bottling bucket, attach a length of silicone pipe to the tap with the bottle wand on the other end and off I go. I batch prime in the...

Aha so thats the trick. Thanks for the info.

I used a 5kg to run the burner with a full 5kg bottle on the shelf for a backup. I made 40L batches, I think i got 4 brews out of one bottle (it might have been more though).

how did you make the coils without putting a kink in the pipe?

I read it on some US based forums, my mate whose garage we were brewing in didn't want to waste the water, until recently i had to get it shipped in from the UK or states. now i am about to start brewing in my own house I wont be reusing it.

the good thing about star san is you can reuse it so long as its PH is below 3. once it starts to look off i make a fresh batch.

i was trying to be clever and do a kind of step mash but the 1300w boiler i had couldnt make the temp jump so I put the burner on, I think the pump i was using to circulate the wort between the kettle and boiler/hlt sucked the bag onto the bottom of the kettle.

we have a joint account so swmbo can see everything I spend, just spent 2.5k on a BM50l.

whichever route you take put plastic down underneath otherwise damp will come up through the floor. I remember as a kid my dad left a drum or tar in the barn on a floor without a waterproof membrane underneath, when he went to lift in the following year the top 98% of the barrel came with him...

seemed like a logical step between kits and AG. It lets you play with different yeasts and hops while someone else does the mashing but I agree its too expensive to do long term, I went to BIAB pretty quickly.

extract is a good step between kits and AG or BIAB, let someone else take care of the mashing step while you concentrate on the other new techniques you need to learn. It is expensive though, for the money I was spending on extract alone i can now brew a whole AG batch and if you spill that...

I started by doing 2 or 3 kit brews to make sure my cleaning was up to par then I went on and did some extract ones and finally made it BIAB, I havent tried one of the recipes on this site but i did buy a clone book that gave the extract recipe as well as how to convert it to AG, I can look up...

be careful if you try to heat your mash, I wasnt and burnt a huge hole in my bag, whole batch and bag gone to waste.

Hello, in case anyone stumbles across this thread in the future I managed to get hold of a qualified electrician at work today, he said dutch sockets usually have a 16A fuse and can run the BM50 so long as nothing else on the ring is pulling much power. He also said most houses have a...

I think so, It looks like the sockets in my kitchen can deliver 16A but many of the others in my house could be either 10 or 16 looking at the link you sent me. Thanks.

Hello, I am thinking of taking the plunge and buying a 50L Braumeister, does anyone know if the standard Dutch plug socket can handle the 16A requirement? Cheers Paddy

I am still looking for a suitable box too, in the meantime I canablised two extension cords, its not pretty and my kids aren't allowed near it.

No, you get a plastic one that is rated to 95C or so. I only posted the link in case you were going to use it in a kettle.

got mine from Amazon too http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009 ... UTF8&psc=1 I also found a SS probe but I havent bought it yet http://www.mashmaster.com/p/366867/ntc- ... wmate.html

Thanks. I was planning on using two packs of Belgian Abbey II 1762 from Wyeast for 40L http://www.brouwmarkt.nl/wyeast-1762-xl ... 03949.html