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Here are some picks of the wiring I am hoping to implement for a bulb in a can heater. I am using a milo can in lue of a paint can, as I cannot see how it will make much difference. I am hoping to find a sparky friend to give this a once over before I implement it, but thought I would get...

Here are the labels I threw together for my first few brews. A Cider, and a spiced short mead.

@finsfan These are actually great examples of different labels that will appeal to diferent markets / portray different messages. The first label visually communicates a historical element to the beer and gives an impression of a liniage, or legacy associated with a beer, along with a...

cheers man. Fridge temp has plummeted to 8 degrees over night, so I am going to try and somehow raise it up to around 12. keeping the temp stable using the fridge with no temp controlled might be harder then expected. I can't wait for my temp controller to arrive! I guess I can only prey that...

If his audience is craft brewers, then sure this is his audience, But he is competing with a multitude of beers for customers, and as such, would be well advised to narrow down his target audience to a more specific niche. If it turns out that craft brewers are his intended target audience, then...

yes, I made a kind of "hop tea" with a little more boiling then a regular tea and then added the liquid to the wort post boil. Yep I am pretty sure that the coopers european lager is a pre hopped beer. So when using kits, I should boil for a shorter period? (15 mins?) Or not boil at all? The...

Great site bro. I am also from NZ and also a graphic designer. Just wish that I had thought of this first! good on you though. Keep up the good work. out of interest, how is your conversion rate working out?

I happen to be a graphic designer by trade. Is this for a functioning brewery selling to the general public? If so there are a bunch of questions that need to be asked and answered in order to inform the design your logo. If the design team working on your logo are worth their salt, they...

yeah I wondered if I had pitched a little too early for the lager. Is 8.9 degrees C not a little on the cold side? the Saflager s-23 packet suggests that 12 - 15 degrees C is optimum. It also suggested that two packets would be needed for pitching at lower temperatures, which I did not have. I...

I used a coopers european lager kit. It came for free with my brewing kit (brought second hand) so I thought I would give it ago (probably not the best idea in hind sight) They guy said he had had it for about a year, and I doubt it would have been refrigerated. It was however before the best...

Cheers crookedtail, I am just starting to get into modifying kit beers and there is some great advice here I have tried to follow for a grolch esk kit mod I am currently putting down. A couple of questions: If you are adding the remainder of the extract in the last 15 minutes of the boil, how...

How about the built on door light in the fridge. Does that get hot enough to use to heat the chamber? and are the internal electrics of the fridge 240v? or are they stepped down to 12v?

How do you think they would go placed underneath a shelf with no fan? Do they come in a bayonet fitting option?

Hi Everyone, I have been inspired by all of the fermentation chamber builds on the site, and have acquired a fridge, ordered the sc 1000, and gone out and brought the necessary cables and fittings to wire everything with a mind to use a lightbulb as a heat source. I have been looking at...

Good to know. Progress! I think under campden sanitising may be what resulted in this infection... At least I am learning.

Thanks Bluespark. that helps a lot. I was under the impression that Campden was hostile to all yeasts and bacteria. A blanket steriliser if you will. So I have learnt something today. So you are saying that adding campden does not effect wine yeast negatively at all? If this is the case I will...

ok. so its now 20 hours later and the brew is still bubbling constantly. I added 7 campden tablets! What does this mean and how should I proceed? Maybe I should rack to several small containers before returning to the fermentation vessel and then campden again, and if it keeps bubbling just...

on closer inspection I believe that the growth was brobaby bacteria rather then mould. in any case, something dark growing in circles on top of my brew. I have sucked up what I could with a syphon hose (I do not have a spare vessel to rack too) and added ample campden, plan to re pitch yeast...

Today while inspecting my 19L of kiwifruit wine that is happily bubbling through secondary fermentation inside a glass carboy, I noticed that there are small round spots of dark brown starting to grow on top of it! This is the first infection of any type that I have had to combat, And I have...