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Pleased to hear it and good to know the chiller is effective. This is the one I use if anyone is interested. https://cussbrewing.com/collections/frontpage/products/short-and-stocky

I have just started BIAB brewing. Brewed a couple of batches and they have turned out good. But I have noticed these floating in the wort. It seems like these exist in the wort while boiling as much smaller particles and coagulate when the wort is cooling. Just so I can understand the chemistry...

Thanks for offering the prize. Count me in.

What's in that Carboy? The inside looks so clean??

If anyone is Stone Brewing 'Arrogant Bastard' Ale fan. I recently brewed Brewers Best Imperial Pale Ale extract kit. It's the closest I have come to brewing this clone by extract. If you are an Arrogant Bastard fan I suggest you try it...

Will do.

Great information everyone. Really appreciate the advice. I think I will go with the Ceramic Heater Bulb and fan as has been mentioned. seems like a great set up.

I have an old freezer (with Inkbird controller) which I am using as a fermentation chamber. I live in Phoenix AZ so cooling is more important to me. However in the winter the temp does get down to about 65 degrees in the chamber if left unheated. So I don't need much heat, just enough to raise...

The Oxi Clean Free instructions (for hard surface cleaning) say to fill the blue mease to line number 4 which is about 2oz. That seems like a ton of Oxi Clean compared with 1oz per gallon (ish) for PBW.

Thanks. The timing of those responses were perfect. While I hit my pH and OG, I was shocked to see that the wort in the carboy has a kind of whitish color to it. I was wondering if I had done something wrong. But maybe as you say, I just need to give it time. Also great suggestions on helping...

Being inherently lazy, I wash my bottles out with hot water immediately after use, looking inside to make sure all the crud is gone. Then put them in the dishware (no detergent). I then store them upside down. On bottling day I put the bottles in the oven to sanitize them (as recommended by John...

I used the Bru'n Water calculator as well for my first BIAB yesterday. pH of the mash came out at 5.4. OG was targeted at 1.065 and I hit 1.069. So all went well and a good learning experience.

No apology necessary. All the information provided/discussed so far has been very useful as I am purely RO or distilled at the moment.

Thanks to everyone for your input. @marc1 I have also just used BrunWater as an experiment. I think I have found my way around it using your references and got the same figures as you, so I know I am on the right track. I will also now experiment with Mash Made Easy @Silver_Is_Money . I must...

Here you go. Ignore the multiple tables, it's actually just one.

Thanks for the reply. I did reach out to my local homebrew store yesterday and they tell me pretty much no-one he knows brews with the city water here. He very kindly gave me a spreadsheet detailing the additives I can put in RO water for different styles of beer. I have been told this may not...

Yes indeed. I think all these measurements were likely originally produced in grams and then converted to TSP. So using the exact TSP size detailed would be inaccurate anyway.

I have this from my local brew shop, which I will follow for my first few brews using RO (ignore the multiple tables its actually just one). I have been told it may not make really 'great' beer, but will assure you making 'good' beer and a good starting point to tweak a little. I will of course...

I now have a list from my local homebrew shop suggested additives to RO depending on beer style. I will follow their advice as a starter and go from there. They also said definitely do not use Phoenix City Water for brewing.

That is the problem. Phoenix is now the 5th largest city in the US with 5.5m population. I think I am going down the route of RO with additives.