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Hi, I am being forced to do away with my propane set up and I'm looking into how I can set up my 6 gallon aluminium boil/hot strike water pot to work using an element and some type of boil control .I wont be needing to worry about mash temps or pump systems just a way to heat up my strike...

Hi all, A friend of mine recently made the following recipe, but it didn't ferment down less than 1030 (very sickly sweet). the OG was 1058. 5,250 kilos of pale ale; 500g of melanoidina; 400g of carared; 300g of caramber; 300g of cararoma; 100g of chocolate. malt scottish...

so I've sent various emails, it's been more than a month now since the order was 'processed'.so far I've only received my yeast but the main thing I'm waiting for is the shank for my perlick, along with some other hardware. I'm posting here in the hope that someone from the company sees the...

Well I knew one day it would happen! finished off my brew day thinking it had gone seamlessly when , oh no I forgot tha whirlflock. it could have been worse (no hops i suppose) its a bitter, I plan to crash cool as always after fermentation but I was wandering if theres a way I can add more...

hi there, well I'm using one its real narrow, I'd guess smaller than 3\16 and 10 foot long . works real well but I'm sure someone is going to say its a bad idea. feel free thanks.

hi, i'd just like some assurance from the forum to confirm that 8psi is around 0.5kgfpcm as my new regulator is calibrated with the latter only and is from zero to 4kgfcm2 thanks .

hi, does anyone know if I can use a regulator that is calibrated for oxygen for use with co2 Ive heard some peolple are using them but I just wondered about the pressures that are exerted . thanks

Hi , suddenly now my regulator doesent seem to work. I'm a bit new to kegging so please bear with me . when I open the gas bottle with the regulator turned off ( all the way clockwise) the low pressure dial climbs , to the limit. it didnt' do that before , this is with the disconects off the...

Hi again clever people , please does anyone know if I can use this pressure guage for my keg it came with the regulater which is for co2 when I got it home I realized the calibration is actually for litres per minuite, I know it should be for kgpcm2 but well, is there an equation whereby I can...

Hi , I'm getting ready for my first keggging attempt with a second hand corny ,Iv'e checked all the valves, connections, posts and lines for leaks with lots of foam and cured them all. before I attributed the slowly falling pressure on the regulator when given a blast at 30psi to the...

Hi, I'm new to kegging and have a query on co2 tank size I'm looking at one with a capacity of 5lb . does anyone know how may 5 gal. this tank would push out? Its nice and small to fit in my fridge and I only would use in a kegarator set up, thanks .

O.K. I'm an english man living in Brazil, out here pilsener malt from argentina is pretty popular to make lagers, which most people here love . but me i like my english ales, bitters IPA's and the like . I've been making several ales which iv'd liked using Pilsener as the base malt, and...

Hi, I am using bottled water, 4 gallon kegs to brew pale ales and stouts as my tap water as a taste of clorine and i dont really trust it but i was wondering what kind of additions eg epsom salts adjunts i need to bring it more in line with the water in england (burton ) I tried but cant...

Hi, anyone know of an home brew store within easy reach from the centre of New York. I have tried looking om the web but can not find any , for example in the downtown region, they all seem 30 miles or so away . thanks Ian .

Hi there, In July I will be coming for a visit to the states from Brazil and I was wondering if there are any home brew shops in the manhattan area in downtown New york and it would be great to stock up on some supplies to take back with me thanks in advance if there is someone who can give...

So I used whirlflock for the first time yesterday , making an IPA I added ! tablet 15 mins before end of boil then stirred vigorously for 2 mins I took the 20liter batch directly to my ice bath after 1 hour it was down to 18c but when I took off the lid it was as if there where jelly fish in...

I will be doing my second all grain soon and I was wanting to know how to caculate the effeciency of the starch conversion . thanks

hey there my stouts horribly flat it tastes ok but its going to be difficult drinking thirty bottles of the stuff and I cant bear throwing them all away. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might put the fiz back in , I know why its flat, I changed from allways using demarera sugar, to...