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I read a litle more about kegs. I did not know anything as i am a botler only. It seems the mini keg 5l is pratical enough to fill with beer up to the top and put the rubber bung on it. This should pratically eliminate air gap and minimize oxygen inside the keg , so i can easily transport it...

What is it with the "keg" solution that keeps the beer safe? To Keg , then transfer to freezer is a good option ? I can always invest in a few kegs...they only cost around 8$ a piece... After laggering i could bottle from KEG... good enough?

My chest freezer will be always running at 35F. The plan is keep adding lager vessels to the chest freezer. Are you recommending to ferment at 35F all lagers? If so...i wouldnt be able to raise temp to do the diacetyl rest....will have to always keep at 35F. No can do on the "all process in...

Hey all, need advice: I just purchased a new chest freezer to lager my beers. The idea here is to send the Lagers to the chest freezer for a few months, after primary fermentation is done. Problem : the chest freezer is at my 2nd house (no space on this one) with 30min car travel distance...

I understand the advice on running the MT close to its top volume, but i was truly disappointed to see that a 80$ cooler from Coleman i not holding temps that well. Also, after seeing multiple cases of the SAME cooler being used in similar scenarios (with up to 50% volume usage) and no problems...

So you are supporting the idea of occupying the 80% air gap with some kind of foam insulation to keep the heat in the grain / water ? I will experiment heat loss with 100% water, to see if there is a difference. Put 15L of water, and see if i get 20F loss in the same 90 min. Then fill the...

I will try the foam approach next time. Maybe i was not clear, but i do pre heat the MT before dough in. I wait till it reaches my mash temp and then close the lid. Maybe 8lbs of grain is not enough to keep temperature, but i find 20f in 90min a lot more than people are reporting. I will use a...

So i need to find a way to fill the cooler, correct? To occupy empty space, what kind of material can i use? Bear in mind that i am not in Usa so, dont know commercial name products. Those blue foam stuff used in insulating walls are good?

Hi all, I started using my new mash tun yesterday, brewing a dunkelweissen. Its a brand new coleman cooler 70qt extreme. I changed the tap valve , other than that no tweaks. I used 8lbs grain bill for 12l (3.2 gal) water mash. I pre heated the tun prior to inserting the mash water and grain...

Very Very nice...will try some

Yes i also believe that once the temperature is reached, a full refrigerator consums less than an empty one. But i did not try and log it yet. The doubt was...does it turn on a lot maintaing 40f instead of 10f beeing a freezer and designed to keep things frozen, not cooled.

Hi all, Considering buying a used chest cooler and use my stc-1000 to control it at 40F to lager beers for 4-6 months. Idea is keep brewing and put lagers in the cooler, so i can always have a lager finishing and another starting. To all of you that use a similar equipment, do you know what is...

There is 3rd option, which i do not favor very much : brew in a bag. Basically its the same as using the braid filter, with simpler sparges but less access to steer the water while heating...which can be a problem...but i know there are ppl doing it...i just dont know which is simpler Kind of...

I am kind of in the middle of the bridge here, would love some insights and opinions on what to go for regarding the mash vessel. I have a 27L electric boiler. I am using it to do the mash, i can keep the temperatures oscillating between 150F to 158F during the mash. The boiler looses heat...

Same situation here too !!! Wife bought me a xmas present with a starter kit consisting of buckets, hydrometer, kit beer can and cleaning stuff. Everyday she regrets the present, she thinks i am lost to the dark side... Since then i made 4 batches, the last one beeing an all grain hefeweissen...

Thanks for the pointers. I will replace the bucket with SS filter next batch, for a proper mash tun made from a 45L cooler, with an SS tubing braid. This will have no false bottoms so more wort will be collected. Problem is i still think the main problem in my wort volume from mash tun (bucket)...

I expected to yield about 11L....but it seems i was being optimistic as i do not know my math ! How do you came out with 76% mash efficiency ? I am using some online calculators and am getting 60% for mash efficiency (take in mind my pre-boil gravity was 1.042 for 13.5L....after boil it...

Hi all, Yesterday was my first attempt to do an all grain batch. I milled the grain myself using a pasta roller (what a mess this was...) I mashed in the electric boiler, at 150-160F for 90 min. - 7.5L water - 1.1 Kg Pilsner - 1.9Kg Wheat After this, as i did not use a grain bag, i...

So , i bottled it. After 3 weeks it was not moving from 1.022. It looked good, smells goods and as i don't know what it should be tasting like...well...i went ahead and added 7g sugar per litre, bottled it and stored it. They will now stay carbonating a few weeks at 18ºC (i have no other way of...

One thought occurred to me: When changing the original recipe of 500g sugar for 500g LME, was i in fact removing some sugar from the recipe? I tasted the beer today, and is far from sweet. In fact it tastes sour, and i do prefer some sweetness in abbey beer. Maybe the sugar just ran out, so...