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    Brew Kettle Electric Element

    I've resisted gas for a long time becuase electric is cheaper and cleaner.. it's looking more and more like it's the way to go for bigger pots. The bottom of this pot is about 700mm diameter
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    Brew Kettle Electric Element

    I might be over thinking this but looking for a bit of advice. I have a 70 litre brew Kettle that I want to heat with electric (it's working volume will be more like 50 litres). I had it on a double hotplate but the base is domed so this didn't really work (it starts rocking!) I could add an...
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    How many litres of home brew 2019.

    19 Litres EKG stout 19 Litres German style Lager (Lager Malt + Saaz) TOTAL: 20694 Before the end of the year I have a mango IPA planned, looking forward to that one..
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    AG question: chilling wort by pouring In cold water

    Previous good'uns: Epiphany Triple, Fisherman stout, Hefeweizen, NEIPA, BIPA x 5, Belgian IPA, RIS, Zombie Dust, Munich dunkle, dark mild, Gales Festival Mild (GW clone), RyeIPA, NEDIPA, Bitter, Perry and cider from scratch, Hobgob clone, DIYDog Dogma, Mild, ginger beer Somehow, making ginger...
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    Forced carbonation - is there a trick to this?

    My Beer gas comes in almost the same size bottle, 10L (6.3kg), the cylinders are rent free and the refills cost £20 (Maybe + vat, I forget). It is food gas, they sell nitrogen mixes, and it's sold as Beer gas (They do welding gas too but I already had my SGS bottle). There's a lot to be said...
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    Use by date for crushed grain?

    I did an experiment a while ago with some grain that was well over a year out of date, i figured use cheap yeast and hops and all i'm losing if it goes wrong is a couple of quid. It turned out fantastic, I thoroughly enjoyed it! I asked on here at the time, and i think the general rule is, if...
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    Induction Brewing

    I use a Burco Cygnet Tea Urn.. It's thermostatically controlled but it doesn't have temp written on it, so i use a digital thermometer then set the knob and it'll keep the temp somewhere near, aim a little cool then heat up to racing temp before using (There's a good 5 degrees or so of...
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    Forced carbonation - is there a trick to this?

    Yeah I have 4 of them, 2 for brewing and 2 for welding. BOC are an absolute rip off for home users anyway, the gas is cheaper but you have to rent the cylinders. For Gas welding, SGS Gas do rent free bottles, Pure Argon is about £40 a fill, CO2 about £20 a fill for 10 litre cylinders. SGS have...
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    My first brew and a few questions - extract IPA

    For the hop bag, I bought a massive tea ball off ebay. I haven't used it yet, but i thought it was a good solution. There are no issues with chucking the hops straight in, it just makes it easier when racking it out of the fermenter if they're tied up in a bag. Having said that, Leafy hops don't...
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    AG question: chilling wort by pouring In cold water

    I bought a chiller as soon as I went to All grain (I brewed one of those cheap wilko lager kits, it was awful, so I decided to go straight to AG). In the early days I used to chill down to 35c before pitching, and I know now that this was a little too hot, but it seemed to work ok. The only...
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    New to brewing

    I have an immersion chiller that I bought off eBay for £30, they made a cracking job of it and it works a treat. I just use tap water, I have hose pipe attachments on the chiller and one of those tap adapters. It works great, will will from the boil to about 20c in easily one round on...
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    Lager that's not lagered

    I watched a documentary on lager a while ago, this was a key topic of discussion. It varies across the big Lager brewers, but generally speaking the turnaround time for Heineken, Budweiser, Stella and Carlsberg is no more than 3 weeks. The reason I say no more than, is because most of them cut...
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    Splitting wort between two boilers

    I brew 19L batches now, but in the past I used to aim for about 23 litres (for my lagers because they need months to mature) I used to have about 5 litres In a pot on the cooker and hop the main boiler, never had any issues.
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    Plastic pressure barrels?

    I tried a Wilko branded pressure barrel and wasn't impressed. I had the adapter for sparklets. It was sealed with vaseline and still leaked like a champ. You could charge it with a sparklet and it would have no pressure in a few hours. In the end I ordered a corny, used Corny's with new seals...
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    Coopers carbonation drops

    For what it's worth, before my recent move to force Carb and Corny's, I used to make a sugar solution in a sanitised cup with boiling water. It used to work out at about 100g table sugar for each 20l ish batch, that would normally dissolve in about half a cup or so with plenty of stirring. Then...
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