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Yep having your own mill is a great way to control more of the beer making process. The side benefit is you can buy sacks of malt and they keep for ages un crushed

I've had good crushes with just a 2 roller setup all be it a chinese one it does whats needed without too much cost. I haven't seen anything yet that would cause me to want to go to 3 rollers. There may be some benefit but it depends on if you are prepared to pay for that benefit. I'm...

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I work as a software engineer in a lab full of electronics, mechanical and software engineers and once they get past the fact that good home brew vs rough stuff they had at uni and especially if you are into the doing it right and distribute samples no issues. There is two home brewers in the...

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Yep the cost of the smaller kegs isn't great :-(. I brought new 2.5g ones for smaller batches and to have more variety in my kegerator etc but a cost of small keg is often more than a large one even comparing new to new. and the second hand market doesn't contain that many small kegs. Once you...

Yep could have been worse but it was my worst yet in terms of danger to the beer. My breaking a bone in my foot setting up for another brew day sucked but didn't risk the beer. I'm kind of surprised that my home build eHERMS system hasn't caused any problems apart from a failure of a dc pump...

I wasnt planning to brew today but was in the mood and my knee wasnt too bad but the pain killers probably didnt help with the mess of a brew day. I brewed a pale ale of 4.7kg ale malt and 250g medium crystal and lots of late motueka hops for a 19l batch. It started going wrong when i realised...

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Maybe its possessed and needs an exorcism ? Trying to cheer itself up because it wanted to be fermenting beer and nor cider? The cider is having nightmares about becomming infected? Nah just a leak somewhere you haven't found yet. Could be a seel needed to be a bit damp to seel or beeing...

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I classed the making my eherms a (making/building/electronics) hobby expense... Totally separate from brewing expense because i had fun making it. Basically an entertainment expense lol. Realistically an all grain brew is pretty cheap but my time is worth quite a bit etc but i actually enjoy...

The stuff that arrived for me today doesn't compare to the schematix brew porn above but should let me try a few things. Some Swanson L Plantarum capsuals and a preassure cooker. I want to try kettle souring and I got the preassure cooker for steralising stuff to do with yeast slants and...

Kegged my speights old dark porter clone. The gass post oring didn't want to seal until i added some food grade lube to it but sorted. Then worked out what money i need to finish my current renovation and get it signed off. Its close but due to my injory the other year i havent really been...

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That sucks free time is neccessary. I enjoy spending a saturday doing an all grain batch when my knee cooperates. Really good to switch my mind off the software I write at work during the week. Something completely unrelated to what i do at work that gives me good beer. Hopefully you can...

Pretty simple to work out so easy enough to do yourself if the origional poster doesn't reply. By doing it yourself you learn about your equipment and beersmith. I always want to understand whats going on. Nothing hard, a few measurments and a boil off rate test. I did a wet run with just...