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If they were clear, they'd be PET and couldn't handle the temperature of boiling wort. The Pol: looks like you plan to have some headspace in there, so you'll need to pitch yeast pretty much as soon as temperature drops into fermentation range. I'm sure you know (and I've probably already...

Well, apart from the mashing ingredients and the shear number of brewers, I'd say we're catching up ;) We get a decent range of malts from Britain and Germany, and we have some decent local maltsters as well. We get pelletised hops from everywhere that grows hops. Personally, I'm a fan of...

While I think of it, you'll know if your container is leaching plasticisers. For this to happen, it will have to "go plastic" or deform and not resume its normal shape when cooled, so you can test your vessels with boiling water if you're unsure. We spent lots of time trying to find fault...

The fella standing next to it owns it and built it. It's a PID controlled HERMS. "Food grade" HDPE uses citric acid as a plasticiser, so all it should leach is citric acid. Whether a particular container is "food grade" we have been unable to ascertain, although most of the cubes...

Mate, most of us don't do this, as it's a difficult task to free your cube of all yeast, trub and krausen ring before filling it with your next batch of hot wort. You'd be looking to clean with caustic soda (lime?) or the like between uses? Front page of this site IBU's Home Page you'll see...

10% of your gravity as sugar in the kettle won't hurt, either!

This is a beautiful thing. On the botulism thing... I've just come across this: "Microbiology, B.D. Davis, R. Dulbecco, H.N. Eisen and H.S. Ginsberg, 3rd Ed. 1980." "Most clostridia produce large amounts of gas (mainly Carbon dioxide and Hydrogen)." From a post here: HOMEBREW...

I'm very interested in the results of your experiment. I'm a member of the Illawarra Brewers Union (the IBUs ;)) who were the club that popularised this method amongst the Aussie brewers. Most of our members (including the FatGodzilla fella posting in this thread) use no-chill almost...