Recent content by mik82

Are they 3000W though? To provide 3000W from a 110V circuit you'd need 27A of current! Do you have circuits other than 110V?

I use something called a tea urn as my electric brew kettle/water boiler. I have this model which I bought second hand for £30 ($50). It has a 3000W element and a thermostat which is useful when bringing water to mash temperatures (though wildly inaccurate). The capacity is 6 UK gallons / 28...

I'm from the UK and I've got a 6 gallon Swan electric tea urn. It's got a 3kW plate element and takes about 10mins per gallon to heat from cold.

At the moment I only brew 2 imperial gallon (2.4 US gal) batches. I haven't got the implements or the space to brew any more. I've only got 4 one gallon carboys, a 2 gallon bucket and a 2.5 gallon brew kettle. I just scale everything down but I still use a whole pack of yeast per brew.

Yeah what the other UK ppl said is right. I've got a lot of different brewery specific bottles and otherwise they'd be put in the recycling bag. I just spent ages cleaning about 30 bottles recently. Most of the beers (Fullers, Jennings, Black Sheep, Old Speckled Hen..) had paper labels and...

Imho the easiest thing to do would be to brew up a standard porter recipe. On bottling add ginger essence and chocolate essence to taste.

Can you transfer the sample back in after taking it or is that not a good idea?