Recent content by dieWerner

Blood on YOUR hands - Arch Enemy

I ordered mine today from china, this (http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/temperature-controller-STC-1000/1305777_2004466302.html) is the correct one if you want to flash the proper firmware to run automated temp profiles as detailed by matt https://github.com/matsstaff/stc1000p

The Iodophor works really well and lasts forever in its undiluted form, but it WILL stain your plastic utensils, fermenter etc.

I've attached my water report, it's a month old but the other months' reports look pretty similar. I used the values from the "mean" column...

Not close-by where I live, this is my preferred supplier

http://brewcraft.co.za/index.php/beer-products-and-equipment BTW, Greetings all the way from South Africa!

Right, as was suggested, I used the brewersfriend.com online calculator and went for the "Balanced Profile" setting, I found everything in the water report except for the "Bicarbonate" amount, here I just guessed 100mg/L It calculates my mash pH as 5.9, and in order to bring it down to 5.5 I...

Thanks for the great info guys. The reason that I'm asking about upping my efficiency is that my pot really doesn't have any more space to add a few extra kg's of grain or water, it's close to the brim of the pot, I'm trying to better utilize that which I have. I've been reading a few...

Hi guys I'm still a newbie, with only 4 brews under the belt, so I have a lot of questions for all the hardcore all-grain brewers! This past weekend I decided to do my first all-grain batch using BIAB, I bought the largest pot that I could find, a 20L Hart Alu pot, which I prepared by...