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Getting over enthusiastic in a group grain buy, buying three and half sacks of base malts, then moving house twice in seven months, breaking your collarbone badly that prevented brewing for nine months, and eventually throwing out the last 20lbs of grain three years after the group-buy when the...

I was trying to do the primary in a bucket for my first BOMM today, but the 2 gal bucket and lid I bought at the LHBS don't fit together. So I'm doing it in a gallon carboy. I'm going to split the 1 gallon between a straight dry mead, and rack the other half onto 3lb of blueberries from the...

The public water supply for London generally comes from quite a bit further up the Thames Valley, off the Chilterns (hence the high carbonate as those are chalk hills) and via the reservoirs near Heathrow. If Fullers are using well water, like most older breweries in the UK, their water could...

AIUI, the kinds of eye damage being warned against mostly don't cause immediate injury, but cause serious symptoms later in life. Things like macular degeneration, and damage to the lens and cornea. These also have additional genetic and environmental risk factors. When those symptoms appear...

Yes, I've used a very similar transformer for stepping up 120V to 240V for a Gaggia Espresso machine. The 2kW model worked perfectly well with the 1475W Gaggia Classic. BTW, you can buy them on eBay, and getting it shipped to your new European address is probably cheaper than getting one...

Although welding masks are pretty good as eclipse glasses, and you can reuse those. Just so long as you buy a welder with them. </totally not angling for an excuse to buy a welder>

I've had good luck getting chalk to dissolve in seltzer/carbonated water. Shake up the chalk dose with maybe a pint of freshly opened carbonated water until it goes clear (add more water if it doesn't completely dissolve/clear), and then add to the strike water. You can do a more complicated...

I think you usually (AFAICT with e.g. BeerSmith) don't count the dead space in the qt/lb mash thickness (it's the thickness in the space with the grain that matters as far as hydration and extraction of the starches from the grain), so I think you could take the Grainfather profile in something...

Thanks again, I'm sure if you were developing this as a product, you'd go with a narrower dip tube that would make attaching the flare fitting easier. But there's probably not demand for that just yet. Maybe when the long awaited day of cask bitter becoming the next big thing in the US...

I run my brewery near the laundry sink and washer, so I've put a garden hose tee with shut-offs on the cold side of the laundry hookup - laundry hook ups are the same threads as garden hose. I run an RV hose from there to the brew area, and tee again with shut-offs to the chiller and a feed...

Typically for moving fermented beer/wine, you want a self-priming diaphragm pump, which puts low amounts of shear on the beer, and doesn't beat oxygen into it or have a risk of cavitation. Something like this is what's generally sold for this job, and is significantly cheaper than your option...

You, sir, are a genius. I did this to my NEIPA keg a couple of days ago, and after one extremely murky pour (which I drank anyway), the subsequent pours are hazy and hoppy again.

It turns out Jay can do that! Thanks, it looks great. I can't post pictures here, so I can't show the pictures of the final setup.

Installing a whirlpool inlet will make your chilling a whole lot easier on your arm, and probably a little more efficient. I can thoroughly recommended the Brew Hardware Spin Cycle for that, particularly if you only do one size of batches, as it means you don't need a valve on it.

It depends on how hard you are going to boil. If you keep boil-off to <10% of your volume, then you don't need much venting. I'm using a 4" vent and 6" vent fan (yes, I know this is wasteful), with it drawing through the side of a shallow storage box screwed to my basement rafters (could...

I'm not willing to go that far. >99.9999999999%, yes. And it probably depends on your definition of "death". I think there's a tiny but not quite zero chance that an Elon Musk type or someone younger but currently alive will go for a moon shot project, and either work out how to prevent...

Well, not quite 100%. 6.5% of all the people who were born haven't died.

I've not noticed either. I believe the risk is of infection if the lines aren't sanitized well enough.

I'm not sure how strong the flakes of calcium oxalate are, but I could imagine them lifting off when the line is flexed. When I clean my lines, they definitely come off in small flakes (maybe 1/10th inch or smaller).

The faucets themselves may be usable, as it looks like they come off the ends with a regular faucet wrench.