Recent content by therichieboy

Interesting. You think it may be rouging? Our FVs came from China on the cheap so seems highly plausible. That said, it was purpose built for use with PAA and would rouging happen so quickly? We've only been using it sporadically for 6 months. We have a home made bottle sanitiser that uses a...

I'll send a pic when it next happens. Caustic and peracetic never come into contact with each other. That said, a couple of us brew and bottle separately. We run caustic and rinse after bottling and next one brewing runs acid. No one's had the problem except me so maybe it's the guy using the...

We increased the concentration based on a recommendation from a brewery that use the same brand. We use perform caustic cleaner and the pipes are all polypropylene- no copper. The pH is pretty low- 5-6 if I recall correctly. Your theory about manganese is interesting as we do use...

Hi again. Thought I'd solved the issue; been a while since I saw pink. We lowered our dilution from 1 to 2% a few months ago. Then tonight again....pink!! Any further insights?

Sounds like the cloth is the culprit. It has long been disposed of and next brew I'll check. Thanks for the input.

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Hi fellow homebrewtalkers, Been a while since I said anything on these forums so nice to be back. Pls don't burn me for my following question. I've done a menial search here and across the www and am stumped. So........ We've recently acquired a 100l automated stainless system and as a...

Thanks- fingers crossed!

Hi, I'd hoped my 1st post to this wonderful forum would be more positive but I need some help with a worrying brew. Firstly sorry to all you non-metric guys for my units!! I did an all grain mash at 65C for 75 minutes with 4kilos pale malt, 1200g munich malt,330g carapils, 300g white...