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    My little Peltier fermentation chamber.

    Good day folks! I know this forum as lots of "Peltier = fails" comment, but then I wanted to show you my fermentation chamber that use theses littles chips. The basic is to use 4 Peltiers and two water cooling system (one for hot side, other for hot side) to get enough power to cool down your...
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    Final reading of fly sparging for high O.G.

    I didn't know how to search for this info, so I went lazy and posted a new thread... 8P Let's say I want to do a brew with an O.G. of 1.080 (or more), using a fly sparge. The first few drops will have a gravity that's a lot higher, let's say 1.100, and will slowly goes down. Now, the...
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    Yet, another efficiency issue thread.

    Trying to figure out my low efficiency (~60% for 5 batch in a row). A few numbers: - 2,9 gallons batch (11 litres) - 5,95 pounds of grain (much of them being 2 row) - Maxium O.G. of 1.072 ( 37.5 ppg ) ** According to John Palmer ** - Actual O.G. of 1.050 ( 24 ppg ) - Strike water : 2,28...
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    False Bottom out of Baker's Secret Pizza Pan

    So here is my take on a DIY false bottom for the 5 gallons Rubbermaid cooler. After looking at the options, I decided to go with the Baker's Secret Pizza Pan, which can be bought for about 12$ (CAN) and is made of aluminium. I choose it because the holes were already made, it's made of...
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    Will it prime?

    Easy question as a first post: Will the beer in the fermenter, if you lager for too long, be unable to prime with sugar when bottling? Or said otherwise, will there always be a minimum amount of yeast in the beer to be able to prime itself with sugar? Does at some point, you require to...
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