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    Beer engine troubleshooting

    Second point: don't quite get this one as the nozzle should be secure and not be able to move, at least it is on my Angram. I suspect that should read drip not drop,and yes over carbonated beer will do that as the beer in the cylinder releases co2 it pushes beer out the spout
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    Speidel Braumeister?

    I am thinking of buying a 20 litre BM .I need to get 20.5 litres into my casks so how easy is this ? I see yhat you get about 25 litres wort is this less loss to trub in boiler and ofcourse loss fermenter to cask ,which in my case is very little only yeast and break material I use a plate...
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    AG#5 Suffolk X Dark

    KYLE is that recipe based on something commercial or is it one your own,Im interested as you have called it suffolk x and I am originally from that neck of the woods. I have tried to find mild recipes for some of the lost local brewers eg tolly,ridleys and not lost adnams . thanks Paul
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    using water calculator

    I biab full volume when I input my water profile and set the water volume as 38 ltres mash 0 litres sparge and select a beer type the calculator say to add all adittions to the boil and none to the mash I have always added everything in the mash does it matter my water alc 220 caco3 ph...
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    Harvesting white labs and wyeast

    washed the yeast 2 times with boiled cooled water now, settling over night in fridge before washing again. man this yeast wlp002 is weired looking stuff to look at very grainy clumps not at all milky but smells ok so I guess all is well. I am now tying to revive a wyeyeast pack with april 2013...
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    Harvesting white labs and wyeast

    ok so pitched the 2 vials in 500 ml for 36 hours and then stepped up to 1.5 litres for 48 hours .now in fridge at 5 c to drop out yeast. my next plan is to freeze it,do I drain off the stale beer and wash the yeast with boiled cooled water and then follow freezing yeast instructions?
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    Harvesting white labs and wyeast

    thanks pittsy my biggest flask is a 2 litre one how many vials do you think I could fill using a 500 starter then adding that to 1.5 litres more wort in the 2 litre flask?I have a stir plate or is there another way I was thinking of pitching the 2 vials together in one starter
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    Harvesting white labs and wyeast

    question for pittsy/anyone I have 2 vials of wlp002 the has a date of june 17 2014 and were in the post to greece for 1 week.I have just pitched a wlp022 yeast that wasin the same parcel ,made a 1.5 litre starter all fermenting well. I want to grow and freeze the 002 yeast in 5-10 30ml vials(ie...
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    Help with PID

    patch see my reply on jims.I put link to manual if it is a k type the setting is not the same as for a pt100 if k type set Inty=k if pt100 Inty=P10.0
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    Cornie force carbonation

    for all beer line and john guest fittings you cant do better than harmony hut on e-bay. I live in greece and paul has always been helpful and good prices. if you know what you need find him on ebay and send him a message if not message him with question
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    Tolly Cobbold Mild

    I know this is a bit old but Tolly Mild OG 1032 85% pipkin pale malt 10% crystal malt 5% chocolate malt hops challenger and goldings IBU 18 EBC 120 dont know if this is correct as i get about 70 EBC when i input the ingredients into beer engine 120 seems very dark although batemans mild shows...
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    Silicone Hose Exclusive offer (Out of Stock)

    picked up my hose today thanks vossy excellent product and service Paul
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    supplier of circular heating elements

    yes I understand the problem with the socket but I have a dedicated supply from my fuse box what I am looking to do is build a single vessel on the lines of a spiedel brewmaister with a central pipe or bucket for the malt so need to find a circular element that would allow something to fit...
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    supplier of circular heating elements

    does anyone know where to buy circular water heating elements ? I am looking for one to fit into a thermopot ideally 3.5 kw low density
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    dls use

    thanks fisherman perhaps this is the problem as I was raising calcium for the full boil volume I plan to brew next week so will either use the calculator and add individual salts or dose dls as you suggest
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    dls use

    thanks guys I had been finding a sort of bitterness(astringency?) in my lighter beers and after murphys analysis the recomendations for crs was exactly what I had been using but as explained above I had been dosing dls to the full 40 litres liquor pre boil volume not beer length so next time I...
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    dls use

    I posted this on another site but to no replies yet I have had my water tested by murphys and they recommend additions of crs and dls(well there equivalent salts which I believe are the same only different packaging) I has previously been treating my water after salfert testing with the amount...
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    my water report

    yes thats my point you say you need sodium levels to enter in to calculator but my report does not give a level my concern is that the water calculator will assume no sodium present as I didnt input a level and recommend a level that is too high is it actually possible to have water with no...
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    my water report

    I have had an analysis of my tap water it is as below ph =7.44 @20 degrees c Ca 75 Mg 8 Na not given Fe 0.1 NH4 <0.1 NO2 <0.1 CL 18 NO3 5 SO4 9 21.9 french harness which I believe is 219 ppm caco3 water calculators have boxes for Na and carbonate CO3 which I dont have but when I input my 219...
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    Water treatment query - undesirable flavours

    if you get meq=1.7 to find your CaCO3 ppm you multiply by 50 1.7x50=85 ppm this is a lot different to 210 you quoted in your first post as discussed before to brew a bitter you need to lower that figure to 25 85-25=60 you need to treat you water to remove 60 ppm from the brupak site you need...
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