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Nothing :( Can't find anything here that is drinkable or not exorbitantly priced. I won't drink bad industrial lager and I'm not paying $10 a can for Thatcher's cider. Been more than a year since I've had a decent drink so now I must simply make my own.

OK, so who has built a device to emulate the beer shower in the small scale? I want to see pics!

I was poking around at the home store today and was looking at the stainless steel drinking water tanks that are pretty much everywhere over here. They are pretty cheap too. The 800L was the smallest they had in stock but it was only about $200 usd. They make them down to the 100L size but I'd...

Those tanks hold about 5lbs of CO2 right? So a cheap kitchen scale would work probably. It would not have to be exactly calibrated, just have the right range to notice if it drops a half pound overnight.

I have been poking around with a couple different brewing software apps but it seems most of them get kind of cranky if I'm not adding hops or grains or extracts or boiling anything. Most of the ingredients I'm wanting to add to a recipe are not in the ingredient databases. Can anyone point...

Do you have room to put your co2 tank on a cheap mechanical scale? As the co2 leaves the tank the tank will get lighter, sudden or unexplained weight loss on the tank would indicate a problem sooner than the pressure valve would.

Once the carbonation is where you want it could you not pasteurize it? That would stop fermentation and all you would have to worry about is keeping it at temps that wont let it get funky.

From my further research it seems that nitrogen may be the most important thing that the dead cooked yeasts provide. So yeast or some other nitrogen rich food is going to be in the next version of the recipe

Here in the lovely tropical Kingdom of Thailand glass carboys do not exist, there simply are none to be had. So I must find some other option for fermenters. From what I can see my options are plastic or stainless steel. Aluminum pots are around but I don't think I'm down with aluminum as...

Air pumps are not really very good at oxygenation. Bubbles in the water don't put much dissolved gas into suspension. Pure O2 is an exception because of the purity. Breaking the surface tension barrier and getting more water in contact with the surface is the best way. Aquarium folks have...

I see the inherent logic in that approach but I have two thoughts that make me question it's efficacy. First, there aren't that many yeasts in a packet, so there does not seem like that would be a really significant amount of nutrient. Second, As an organism metabolizes vitamins and mineral...

Where I am located I cannot run down to the LHBS for supplies. There is only one brewing store in the country and the stock there is pretty thin. It's a beer focused shop so anything wine specific or outside the bare basics of even beer making they don't have it. Honestly I'm grateful we have...

What kind of box is that? Really unusual shape!

Guys here in Thailand do this all the time to make fermenting fridges. You just have to use your controller to switch power on and off to the whole fridge. Then you set the built in thermostat to it's lowest setting. When your controller decides the fridge is too warm, it switches the fridges...

Thanks for this thread! Getting yeast strains here is a huge pain in the ass and anything I can do to propagate and stretch out the useful life of what I can get here is a huge benefit to me.

Have you seen the 'sons of fermentation cooler'? It is a pretty neat design for a DIY stand alone fermenter cooler that uses frozen jugs of ice for it's cooling source and looks very easy to build. It should keep your temperatures far better controlled than setting your fermenter in a tub of...

I'd recommend doing both. Not every day, but on some sort of regular schedule.

This is totally the kind of thing I am looking to try here in Thailand. Please keep us posted on how it turns out.

Could you get a similar effect as the stirplate with an aquarium air pump? As long as you set up some kind of filter on the incoming air and maybe went for a different shaped (tall and narrow?) flask. Maybe mount the air input inside a tube which is then set inside the flask to make sure you got...

Awesome thread! With my current living situation I have to get all my yeast brought in from out of the country and this plus the freeze banking will let me become essentially self sustaining with my yeast cultures once I get them here. At the very least I should only need to have friends...