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I won an angram beer engine some time ago on ebay, and have been experimenting - I've used them before but its the first time I've actually tried to set one up myself. My setup is: Corny@13c/9psi ; several-meters-of-3/8-python-with-cold-recirc ; check-valve ; 6-inches-of-3/8-line ; beer-engine...

Currently I use dalex taps on the end of a python, but I'm thinking of upgrading later this year - either to shiner fonts or to beer engines. I'd 'like' beer engines and have used them for special occasions and events, but am doubtful about what its like to live with them full time as a home...

I like casks, and understand their use with a direct/gravity tap, and/or for conditioning with air breathers, and/or with longer beer lines to a beer engine. Great. BUT a great many casks are used not just with longer lines but also with a CO2 feed... by this point it 'seems' (to me) like their...

I've been testing a maxi 310 that I bagged cheaply as spares/repairs - it 'seems' like just the thermostat has broken :party: I could get a direct replacement but I've a spare TC-10 (like the STC-1000) that I could use instead, it measures down to -40c. Does anyone know what temperature the...

I'm going to be making a recirculating system thats like a stainless BIAB setup combined with RIMS - or looking at it another way, vaguely braumeister-like but perhaps with anexternal RIMS tube. This means that, a bit unusually, my boiler will have a rims attached. What I'm wondering is.. would...

Does anyone know where you can get gasketed plate-chillers/heat-exchangers from? I expect they'd be too expensive but all I can find at the moment are things that are about half the size of my shed.. Cheers Kev

Hi all, I use the same pump for emptying the MT and for emptying the boiler, so a while ago I got a little solar project pump that can be sanitised in between the two uses by recirculating boiling wort. This has been a great move, its so much easier and quicker than flushing it with chemical...

Hi all, I've decided to build a recirculating system for the first time, and am intrigued by the speidels braumeister concept of recirculating upwards: there are 'some' benefits in that gravity doesn't help to cause compressing/sticking of the grain bed, and the pressure of pumps can be...

Hi all I've recently been trying some peracetic acid as a no-rinse sanitiser. I've been taking great care of the 5% undiluted stuff, but wonder if I should also try harder with the diluted (5ml in 250ml) mixture. Of course I don't drink it or squirt it in my eyes (so far anyway) but I've not...

Well I thought it was time to brew something malty, and I've not posted a brew day on this forum yet so took lots of pics. I've not tried this recipe before: its based on the Caledonian 80 shilling in BYOBRA, rounded a bit to make it convenient for hop pack sizes and so on, and with some pale...

Hi all, The temperature cycle for my ales is as follows: 1. After primary, chill the FV to a few degreesC for four or five days to help clear & cold condition, 2. Leave in the cornie at 'whatever' garage temperature for 'however long' (icy in winter, roasting in summer) 3. Bring into serving...

Hello! I've been on JBK for some time and thought I'd give THBF a whirl too - seem to be quite a few familiar faces on here! I'm an AG brewer of traditional British ales - mainly Bitters and IPAs but also the occasional stout. I'm fairly clued-up on equipment/DIY and fairly rubbish at anything...