Recent content by mcinnes01

Hi I'm just getting back to brewing after a hiatus (about 18 months) whilst I built my new brick brew shed. I'm using a chiller with glycol and used fermentrack previously, using the chamber sensor as you would for a fridge but that is actually going in my ss brewtech chronical thermowell was...

yeah mine worked eventually using the script even though the script said it failed. What I did was: apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change apt-get upgrade sudo reboot docker stop $(docker ps -a -q) docker rm $(docker ps -a -q) curl -L install.fermentrack.com | bash It said it failed, I...

I also just bumped in to this issue when updating from the UI, however using: curl -L install.fermentrack.com | bash still required me to use this before it would work: sudo apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change I also got an error on the redis install, which I assume is because redis is...

Hi, I'm currently brewing a Raw Mango IPA, this is a bit of an experiment using some techniques I've not done before, including no boil and hop tea. Here is my recipe: Brewfather The recipe has the hop additions as I would normally add them, but I'm trying to work out what I would need to...

Yeah I've got a flat top too with an extra TC port, but it can't take pressure the same as the domed lid. It used to have the chiller coil suspended from the flat lid, but I've drilled and mounted it through the side of the fermenter now so I can use this domed lid. The BME version has a 3" port...

That's really helpful thanks. I've just built a glycol chiller out of an old MF ale chiller and I've rewired it to control using brewpiless and fermentrack. Not quite finished yet hence my early control issues where the temperature shot up to 26c and I've not wired in the heat wire that is...

I've not tried a secondary yet for that reason, but other than late hopping it seems the only way to leave your hops behind if you want to minimise contact time? Both seem like opportunities for oxygen pickup. Sadly my fv isn't a unitank so I can't get a spunding on it and there is no hop drop...

Brilliant thanks for your help :mug:

Yeah I guess I could transfer to kegs for my secondary leaving the hops behind, do my d rest in the kegs and then cold crash, before transferring to another keg and carbing. Or get a brite tank :D

Awesome thanks, I've been trying to do these fast turn around NEIPA processes. Ferment fast, minimum dry hop exposure, then package. But just doesn't seem possible to pull your dry hops out without potentially introducing oxygen. Like I said I am dry hopping in sealed hop filters but I would...

Great thanks I will definitely incorporate that in my next brew regarding the d-rest temps/time. It does make me wonder where I'm getting diacetyl from if it's not hop creep :confused:, maybe I'm just not resting it long enough before I crash although you can see on my graph up top I did leave...

I dumped some yeast after cold crash whilst getting ready to keg, but decided to do a diacetyl test before I kegged. I'd had stable gravity for a number of days before cold crashing.

Great thanks, sorry I was assuming this meant high krausen. Yeah I have been doing fairly hop heavy beers, not ridiculous mind like 13-18g/l, and I've not double dry hopped recently as I've been trying to resolve my oxidation issues, so only dry hopping once at high krausen and the brew before...

I've had most of my beers over attenuate, I wondered if it was the temperature of my grain bed, but I've been stirring quite a lot whilst mashing and checking with another temperature probe to rule that out. I wondered if I wasn't getting the amount of dextrin extracted that I expected on my...

Great thanks, do you think I need to add more yeast/sugar? My beer already over attenuated as it was meant to finish around 1.024 and it was down to somewhere between 1.018-1.02 hence my thoughts around hop creep.