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So my cobbled setup was just some distilled water in the double airlock connected to the ball lock QD on the fermenter. So if it sucks down the distilled water, then at least it's not starsan and I can just keep topping that up easily with more water. Which hopefully won't hurt the beer and...

Ordered some cold crash guardians too, so I can use those later. As I think they'll be worth it in the long run and will help prevent any potential starsan mixture going back into the beer. I'd rather have them than not and wish I did one day :D

ok it seems like it worked. Only problem was the QD was the wrong one for the ball lock I had :D So made a quick switcheroo and now it's all hooked up and getting cold in the fridge. Took a quick sample and it's bang on 1.010. Turned out at 4% and tastes great. Just gotta get it kegged in a few...

ok, figured something out: Just grabbed some tube I had, a ball QD and a double airlock. Now I can just prop that up on the Anvil while i cold crash it. And It should work as a blow off in a bucket when I'm not cold crashing. :D

Ok, so I have this clear before I do something bad: If I do not leave the blow off tube on the ball lock when cold crashing, then I risk my FV crushing itself due to negative pressure? Yes/No? If I leave the blow off tube connected, then it's going to suck up some starsan mixture from the...

This was the last pint of my Red Ale I brewed (Extract 5 gallon batch) that I pulled from the keg on Sunday evening. Wish I could get every batch this clear:

ok, I got my Anvils in their wet suits (well one of them, the other is busy fermenting an English Pale Ale which I'm looking forward to (first attempt at transfer under pressure), kegging it on friday). I made a little modification to the 4 hole stoppers. Instead of putting the thermowell in the...

Would the scorching still happen if I'm doing BIAB? As that's what I want to move over to once I have some more brews under my belt. I love extract brewing, it's very simple, but BIAB doesn't seem much of a jump to make. If anything it seems simpler than extract, aside from needing more grain...

Ok, Radio 6 just played an Opera song on Guy Garvey's Sunday evening/night show. And it was rather nice actually: La Rondine - Chi il bel sogno di doretta

Lakes don't count :D I need ocean and sea breeze. :)

I am very ignorant about electricity aside from knowing I don't want to get electrocuted :D So I always hire someone to do wiring. That and this house has the worst electrical wiring I've ever seen. Last time I had an electrician here, fixing an outlet that burnt up, he said whoever wired the...

So far it looks like the AIO system is winning in my mind. Water may take a little more time to heat to the temp for steeping grains, but that's fine. On the stove I have to get it done as fast as I can, so I can cook sunday dinner too. If I have the AIO sitting in the kitchen while i prep...

And that's completely understandable. I wouldn't recommend anyone emigrates anywhere tbh. It's one of the toughest things anyone will ever do. Sorry, I also can't recommend land locked states :D That's been harder for me than the heat here in AZ. I grew up on the coast line, and not being able...

haha, I love Ozric Tentacles :D I don't tend to list things in favourite order, just what comes to mind at that point. There's just too many bands that I love to list everything I am (Not so much an exile though. Just met a girl and had to move from one country to the other in order to stay...

Everyone's got their own tastes, same as anything else. That doesn't mean it's not music, it just means it's not what the listener would consider to be music :) But if you're open to listening to something that may change your perception, check out Little Simz (Point and Kill is the song that...

haha, sadly she doesn't like beer at all. But yes, I get what you mean. Doing some reading on the steam condenser lids now. The great thing about this is the Anvil Foundry has one of those too I believe (or as an add-on), which would let me brew indoors, keep the stove free for actually...

Oh. That is an excellent little nugget of advice there. I will do more reading on the condensation lid. Thank you for that. I am seriously entertaining BIAB, which as far as I understand it is all grain brewing, just less steps (correct me if I'm wrong, please). As I'd like to start buying...

Actually, Mashdar just triggered another question. My current immersion chiller wouldn't be good enough for an electric system, as it's not high enough. So I would guess I'd also need to pick up something like this: https://jadedbrewing.com/products/scylla Which is fine, I've had my eyes on a...

Yup, I have a simple immersion chiller for that with a cooler full of ice packs and ice i've frozen the day before in 8lb bricks. Works perfectly to bring temps down to pitching in under 20 minutes Thanks Whisky, Yup, the caution is always something I use with advice. While I love to learn...

I like a _lot_ of styles of music. I don't play them all though, as I'm not that good of a musician :D I have BBC Radio 6 playing all day every day, as they have such a diverse amount of music covered (they pretty much cover all the genres except Opera. I don't think i've ever heard that played...