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Thanks, yep a crash is always a concern as house prices are pretty high compared to incomes at the moment here but i have enough margin i should be fine. My house value didn't change in the previous 7 years, just the last 3. I brought a year before the previous peak but wait long enough and...

Got the cortisone injected in my knee on friday. I really don't like the needles but it does help. Friday morning it was good due to the local ansthetic but its taken a few days to start working and still improving. Weirdly saturday and sunday my knee has been more clickey so i guess some...

How's your preboil gravity? I recently had an issue with og being low but preboil being ok and i found out i had accidentally reverted to an old profile in beersmith with the wrong boil off rate. I don't see too much variation in efficiency on my herms with a 60m mash between just cracked and...

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I edited a introduction and grain to glass video of this brew and uploaded it onto youtube. The editing is a bit rough as i was short on time and learning how to use the kdenlive video editor on linux. The beer came out good. Definitly a little sneaky alcohol wise. The alcahol is well...

A glass of my Speights Old Dark Clone (porter) and enjoying a couple of bacon and egg butties with cheese :-). Some nice smoky streaky bacon smelled great while frying and tasted great too.

I run a 4500W element at 80% for 5 or 6gallon batches so 3600W so as Bobby_M said It will work fine. Mine is in a 50L pot with a pretty wide top so more surface area

I brew alone (well apart from the cat). nice and relaxing. Occasionally I have had friends visit when I'm doing it and as long as I done forget what I'm doing its fine. Good to show others whats going on etc, They get more of a sense of what is involved in all grain rather than thinking you...

I suspect your PBW soak is way too short or too cold. I clean bucket fermenters by soaking with sodium percarbonate or PBW for 24h if cold water used. takes a while to eat all the krausen off when cold. My plate chiller just gets a boiling water recirculation (I do use hop spider though) and a...

You could mix up a larger amount with water then work out the dilution to get what you want by adding x ml of the mixed up solution provided its well mixed Seriously pick up a 0 - 100g scale. real cheap and great for hops as well as water additions.

Autoclavable plastic vials to try for yeast freezing etc. Cheaper than glass so keen to see how they go. Some glass ones as well so i can try both. I have everything i need to freeze yeast now and if I find some reasonably priced agar I can play with slanting as well.

Just added Motueka hop pellets to dry hop my motueka pale ale. Should be able to cold crash sunday and keg late sunday evening or monday after work. Tomorrows sort of brewing related activity is hopefully getting more cortisone injected in my knee that should make brewing and other things...

The restriction will naturally throttle the pump as its on the output just like a control valve should be do fliw will be reduced

Pretty shoddy electrical work. If they do that do they also randomly connect the earth terminals to phase?

Mistakes in bottle priming are easy. I managed to double dose a few bottles and miss a dose in one. I was using carbonation drops. Bottling is a repetitive boring task so easy to get distracted. Now if i bottle i batch prime but the first few times i didn't get proper mixing but now its...

Making things. Currently building a CNC mill and renovating my house. Some previous projects: Homebrew eHERMS out of 50L pots 3D printer Electric bike. Television transmitter (amateur radio).

Great to see your enjoying your robobrew. The pump version didn't exsist when i built my eherms and to be honest i would have probably built my own system anyway because to me thats half the fun but a friend at work got one once they added the pump. They do seam like a good way for a lot of...

A lot of bottles to sanitise and fill when using 330s for a 23L batch isn't it. I did my first bottling day with only 330ml bottles a three weeks back. Normally use 750ml bottles although i went to kegging for most beers as the bottling became tedious after every batch but the last batch was...

It sucks to have an early failure but it happens sometimes, hopefully they get it fixed and back to you real quick or another one so you can brew on. :mug:

The household cleaner marketers have encouraged a generation of germophobes. Bound to be a lot more than just mouse excrement in his grain...