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There's a guy in Beijing sells an awsome copy of the Speidel Braumeister in a 60 litre version with a copper shroud over all of it, it even whirlpools! He was selling them for about $800(aus) but must have got a lot of interest in them cos he put them up to $1500 (u.s) I have his details on...

For a moment I thought my wife had joined HBT

Thanks for the input, I have a 60L and a 40L pot I have a false bottom in the 60 litre pot which holds 8L up to the level of the false bottom, I have been brewing batches of 23L ( the first three I made a right pigs ear of, but still drank them ) and this last brew I did was a Donnington SBA...

Does the area covered by your mash make a difference, for example it seems logical to have a larger diameter mash tun so the grain bed isn't so deep to get a more efficient mash. Is this the case?

Thats how I used to do it, never a mind about heat or cold we used to put a slice of bread on top of the wort and sprinkle the bakers yeast on top, so as the bread sank the yeast would slowly start to work. Often used to open a bottle still had a few bread crumbs floating around in it.

Hi Everyone, I am from Melbourne Australia first started brewing in the late 60's how different it was then, no airlocks, a tea towell over the fermenting vat syphoned straight out of that into bottles. The grain we had to belt the bejasus out of with a rolling pin, and the hops we bought from...