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Hi, Thanks for everyone's replies and apologies for the late reply myself. eric19312, Could you help me with what is a dip tube, and also what is Dunk Sparge ? Many thanks

Thank you sir, Used to only do extract so I am taking this time to learn and become a full grain brewer

I like what you have done bud, have you got any more pictures so I could maybe copy your design ;)

Would this still be the case with the clear food safe silicon tubing?

Nothing like that its a rectangle box with a lid lol Not even sure its food safe plastic :|

thanks for the welcome guys

Hi, Thank you for your reply. In answer to your questions. What size batch do you plan on making? I am looking at 5 Gallon brews. I have an All grain kit at the moment from "The Home Brew Company" its just one big bag of grain, 3 small bags of hops, yeast and a tablet. What is your heat...

Many thanks Kirkwooder :)

Good Morning Guys. Just wondering if you could help choosing what to build a mash tun from. I have a couple of options but not sure what the best route would be and I would prefer not to buy any more containers if possible. Using an old but small cool box (Maybe 20L - Its so far in my garage I...

Good Morning. Its been just under 10 years since I last spoke on this forum and in fact since I have done any brewing. So thought I better say Hello and let you all know that I am now back to brewing. Reason for waiting 10 year? My wife was ill so I didn't have the time and then she didn't...

Hi guys, Ive started writing a how to brew help guide. I was wondering if somebody could take a look at what i have so far, and let me know what they think... link to the file is here How to brew guide Many thanks in advance, and please give me some hard feedback :) Kirk

Hi, My brewing process... I put the malt extract, 1kg of suger 3 liters of boiling water, and about 21 -22 litres of cold/warm water into my 5 Gallon Fermentation barrel (cold / warm ish water to ensure the right temp for the yeast) Then after its femented, I syphon the femented beer from...

update, The beer has had about 12 hours in the house... Checked the temp last night it was at 20c again :) and this morning it was at 17c Im hoping this is warm enough to make the co2

Hi, The pressure barrel is just a plastic keg/barrel made by youngs... it has a screw cap with a pressure release valve to stop it exploding when the brew makes to much co2. Also you can buy a screw cap that has a theaded valve connection so you can force co2 into it... i dont have that bit...

Hi Guys, Thanks for your info :) I have now moved the 5 Gallon Pressure Barrel, and all the plastic 1 Litre bottles from my cold garage (appox 10 - 12 C) to my spare bedroom in the house... (currently at 21C) I have given the bottles a small shake and the yeast is clearly back in the mix...

only used 1 KG of sugar... Should this brew be kept warm while it carbs? ive just filled the 5 gallon keg and its now in the garage, ive used old carpet and cardboard to save it from the cold floor...

Hi, For my 3rd brew... today after the fermentation has finished... i had a reading of 0.996 on the hydromeater, i boiled the sugar in about 100ml of water. i added it to the pressure barrel after filling with the lager.... i then shook the barrel and im hoping it will be better :) As for...

ive put the plastic bottles on there side and stood on em... they give a small amount... but no leak or air sounds....

ok, Sorry, I have re-read my message and your right it makes no sense at all..... Ok lets try again... This brew, is my second, and was a gerodie Lager extract kit. It had fermented for about 10 days when i got a reading of 1.006 on the hydromeater, I got hold of loads of 1litre soda...

Hi Guys, Im on my second brew now, My first brew failed... big time... was flat and in the end it tasted bad.... Anyway, I tried again, I Fermented the lager, with a fish tank heater in to stop it going to cold. Everything looked good when it came to bottling... I had a good hydromeater...