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also I've 2 empty key kegs and a fancying building a fermenting vessel with one so I've a spare

just a 19l corny, I've seen the jackets they look to be just neoprene. Ive got some silver insulating liner from my boiler and mash build as well as a few camping mats I dont use so thought that would be better than just wet towels.

Hi Ill be going away for 2 days, leaving Friday morning and drinking keg sat night. I want to take 1 keg with me to drink there will be no electricity. I'm currently thinking of making an insulated container out of a key keg fill the gap between the keg and key keg wall with ice, then a load...

I will say my wort is crystal clear since moving to recirculating the mash and fly sparging

all really good advice, as my fly sparge is done via a pump ill close the taps more and slow it right down. I have very little dead space although the hops in a nylon bag soak alot of wort up.

I crush it with a corona mill, It looked as well crushed if not better than the caramalt I had crushed. I think my system can take a much finer crush than I used though.

So I do a 3l per kg of grain I mash for 60 mins at 62 degrees I fly sparge over 30 mins my water source is tap water I add gypsum.

the efficiency is upsetting, I think the issue is the amount of grain in my mashtun. My next run I'm going to use a max of 5kg and mash longer 90mins over the current 60mins. My temp is consistent and a recirculate for the last 20 mins of the mash. If I could get to 75% I would be very happy.

Cheers Ian, Ill drop the amounts of Dextrine, what would you recommend I didn't think 250g would be that much.

I quite like that amount of crystal gives it a nice colour, its probably whats balancing out the bitterness though. I will try less next time, I like the head retention the dextrine malt gives. Im using Hook Head Irish Pale Malt as my base malt dose anyone else use this and thoughts over maris...

I’ve just got one from dark farm for 99.99 Gareth there was really helpfull, hopefully carbing on my big cylinder and just using bulbs to push beer out.

Hi Brian, thats good to know, I brew about 24 - 25 litres so I'm thinking fill corny and a 5l mini keg and i can take little one out

I like the idea of force carbing on my keggorater setup, and having a propper tap.

Hi Seen these when looking at how to make my homebrew portable for bbq's and what not...

cheers, I dont find the IBU from the calculators translates to the bitterness of the final product, its only just been dry hopped but tastes great not overly bitter, but then I love a bitter highly hopped beer. I may do one with less early hops as a trail, if its just as nice it will save some...