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A little break from Beer now. Its Ume season! Who here does anything with Ume? I just started a batch of Umeboshi and Umeshu yesterday with my wife. Good to get her involved in some basic brewing. Soon we will get a metric buttload more ume and I will do some Ume wine. Its nice to take a...

Im trying to source an thermo probe for my STC 1000 (didnt come with one - second hand). Can I just buy a any NTC 10K Ohm 3435 probe and solder 2 meters of wire to them to connect to my controller? Does the length of wire make a difference on the reading? I don't know much about electronics...

I just double checked, add a credit card to Paypal with a Japanese Paypal account gives me a roadblock. I can't enter the billing address for my card (its a Canadian address) at all, there are only options for Japanese billing addresses. Sadamichi you have been able to set the billing address...

If I could use Ebay right now I would, but from the fine print I was reading I can only pay by paypal and can only ship to a paypal billing address, and the paypal address must match my credit card billing address, and I don't have a Japanese credit card. Long story short is I can't. Lots of...

You aren't far from me then, come up to Oppama some time for a beer! Like mpearce said, waiting on cash for the upgrade at the moment. Got the STC1000 but it didn't come with a probe so I need to figure that out before I bother with the freezer. I will probably put the chamber outside...

Instant fermentation chamber: the deep bathtub half filled with water. I am keeping the roll-up-cover over the whole bath as well, it creates a second space filled with CO2 purged from the airlock. Slow and steady for 5 days now. I can rack to 2ndary on the 7th day when I have time off...

I am trying my new refractometer out for the first time today. Just making a starter from bottle conditioned yeast and bumping up the volume a couple times over the day. This is great! I am mixing 50 ml of boiled water and DME in the microwave and I can check the gravity with just a couple...

Front Page HBT right now is a NYC HERMS system built out of coolers and designed to take up as little space as possible when not being used. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/apartment-brewery-410238/ The little cooler contains 1500 W element and stores inside the big one! Not sure if the guy is...

I dry pitched, it was just a single liter so I didn't calculate a rate, probably it was more than needed. The brand was a Japanese company, Nisshin. I couldn't tell you much about the original Blackberry I did but it was probably Fleischmann's yeast dry pitched. On the flipside of the coin, I...

Awesome! I am pretty happy that within our group there are 2 varieties of Japanese hops being grown! Next year I think is going to be quite interesting with so many more varieties showing up! I will do my best to grow a crown of every type I can get my hands on, so that I can re-distribute...

My first fermented beverage was a wild blackberry wine with baking yeast. It turned out fine and the yeast didn't die off at a low abv like some people suggested it would. Its been years since then and I thought I'd try another experiment, so my last batch (a blonde) got so4 except for one...

Just wanted to update that the beer tastes pretty good and I think its a recipe I can repeat. Thanks for the feedback!

I think I might try the smaller boil for my next brewday too. Perhaps 5 liters of sterilized water that I can cool in the fridge ahead of time. I am just playing around in the volume needed tool in Beersmith and noticed another benefit; the cooling loss for a 19L batch would be reduced by 250...

I'm Bottling a Blonde with Falconers Flight 7Cs right now (once I finish this sample):mug:. The ABV is nice and low, this is going to be gone in no time! Surume, are you talking about getting the strike water hot? I have been using a little cheat - I crank the setting to maximum on my...

Thanks guys, I think the freezer idea is perhaps the way to go and is cheaper than I expected. the STC should be the icing on the cake! I set up the Ebay account and then realized the only way it seems to allow payment right now is through Paypal and they only ship to the paypal shipping...

Hey guys, has anyone had any experience ordering either the temp controller or refractometer off Ebay from Hong Kong yet? I want to set up an account and get that done soon but have never used Ebay. How is shipping from HK? Cheap? Slow? I will be looking for a used refrigerator to set up...

I have one caution about the hoppy bottles. From the ones I have seen, they get banged up a lot more in their return system, and the built up stresses in the glass may weaken them below a safe point. The 8L umeshu jars seem to work pretty good. I put a little foil over the pouring spout (of...

I don't have a recipe either, but I think you will have some luck straight up asking the fellows at Baird brewing. At least one that I know of started out as a homebrewer and they are supportive (they held a HB appreciation party at one of their taprooms in Feb with a small batch of a...

True, its just healthy paranoia and I do other stuff in that hour like have a coffee and weigh out ingredients.

I just wanted to add some observations from using this sanitizer for 10 months. I have used it exclusively, and have not had any infected batches. However, I have gotten in the habit of spending a bit more time washing equipment with stronger detergent concentrations (oxiclean). I also give...