Recent content by Williac

Love your thinking! I don't know why this didn't cross my mind :p That kind of thing's pretty wide spread here, the lack of health and safety is mind boggling. Only thing I would be concerned about for this application is having more difficulty getting the insulation panels to line up properly.

Cheers for the advice, I'll see what they have at the plumbing shop here. Just trying to figure out if there's a reason this hasn't been done. Would seem to be a cheap simple way to put together a small fermentation chamber too.

Hey all, I'm working on putting in a walk-in cold room in our new nano brewery build in south east Asia and have run into some local labour hitches. We have a coolbot unit ready but have been getting some stupidly high quotes to build the unit (almost 3x the cost of the materials). I can...

We'll be looking into harvesting our yeast at some point but have just started selling (only kegging for now) so consider a fresh pitch a safer option for the moment. One step at a time and all that. We're based in Laos :)

Should be noted we always use dry yeast, only thing we have access to over here :(

Fully agree, I probably should have mentioned that. I think the yeast nutrient is a handy addition at this point as it may not be the ideal conditions for getting the yeast to wake up again and complete their job at the best of health. I wasn't seeing any signs of reactivation after a few days...

Thought I would post this up to assist with anyone who may need it in the future. We're brewing on a nano (1 barrel) setup but the principles should be the same. We run three brew days in a row to fill 3, one barrel fermenters in our fermentation chamber. Given the lack of individual control...

Thanks for the feedback guys, confirms a few of my suspicions. We're in Vientiane, Lao PDR. We can get things sent in from China but it's more expensive than it should be given the proximity. The 60cm ones can be found in town for around $60 so it was definitely worth considering. We may have...

Thanks very much for the fast response! I agree, if we had other options at this point we would be going for something /larger/taller/both. These really are our only (economic) options at the moment as the next vessels you can buy here are 500l! We can take measures to try and avoid boil-overs...

Hi, I know this topic has been beaten already on here (I've been through the table in the sticky thread and read through pretty much everything else) but I'm still trying to get some clarification now we're up-scaling. We're trying to set up a 1bbl brewery (2 full size kegs per brew) and...