Recent content by iamthefly

I BIAB in an ACE mash tun/kettle, which is a down market version of your system. To sparge I use 2 plastic buckets and 9L tea urn. One Bucket sits on garage floor and an oven shelf sits on that. Upon the oven shelf sits the second bucket which I cut a rake of slices into the bottom of using a...

I use starsan to sanitise. I'll wait until I need the keg again and if it hasn't improved I'll dump it Thanks

Hi, I brewed a rice lager from the Greg Hughes book but it's got that chlorine related taste of burning elastoplast after fermentation. I have extremely soft tap water, practically pure, but I forgot to put in a 1/4 Campden tablet to dechlorinate as usual, although I made a kit once which asked...

Hmm, not sure what you mean. Look at countries where religion is banned, Communist Europe, Nazi Germany, current North Korea. Not great places to live. Let's not pretend that the daily mass shootings in America are religiously motivated, rather it's usually people who feel empty, lose it, and...

Can't help, sorry, but Gumtree is great for fridges. Can pick one up for £20-30 if you are patient. I put an advert in asking for a free one and was offered one after a few weeks, and I live in a pretty remote area. I'm a teacher so I asked my seniors if any of them are getting rid of a...

Makes a bit of sense I suppose. Your tag line is great btw

This makes sense and helps, thanks

I don't get it,. I've ordered a big book on hops, perhaps it will explain. Hops contain acids for bittering and oils for aroma. There is no such thing as hop 'flavour', we just perceived aroma in the mouth that way. The oils boil away, the acids don't. Why do we muck about with additions...

Cool. What about a lower gravity wort? When does it become unnecessary/ detrimental?

Its a bit like putting grated potato into potentially fizzy bleach, if you stick to 6% (also called 20 vol) it should be safe enough. Unlike coke however, it will keep releasing gas when the lid is on causing increasing pressure, so just don't store it too long. The release of gas is very slow...

Probably, but i'm quite excited about the potato science. A bottle should be enough for a starter (for fun and testing) and a brew (for better beer, hopefully).

Thanks, So, ballpark figure, leave it in the wort for a couple of minutes? Was just going to order a small bottle, use the whole lot and regulate oxygenation by time. But volume is a good idea if I wanted to save some for later. I figure with the starter a diffusion stone won't be necessary...

I'm thinking about pure oxygen for starters, perhaps for beer also, but as I'm just starting out and live in a remote area, I don't have an oxygen tank and all the bitz. I'm considering using food grade dilute hydrogen peroxide 6% (20vols), which is cheaply available on ebay, to generate oxygen...

Making a stir plate does look fun...

I've only done a starter once in a 2L Pepsi Max bottle with lots of shaking periodically. I thought I could leave the loud only half on a as a kind of airlock, but I must of forgotten to loosen it after shaking. Blew gunge everywhere when I released the lid, like half my fungus. Felt like I...