Recent content by hoppyscotty

how did you get on with your shives? Did you suss out the sizing in the end and where did you get them from? Thanks.

My first ispindel I calibrated iaw the YouTube video above. It was a bit of a messy PITA, but I soldiered on and completed the calibration. However since I've used it in real life it has never ever agreed with the actual gravity of my fermenting beer. Occasionally the error will narrow such that...

Russia is already having to pull old WW2 era tanks out of storage for use in Ukraine because they've depleted their stocks of more upto date tanks, not to mention the loss of most of their best trained and most experienced soldiers and having to rely more and more on drafting conscripts, so that...

Whilst in theory carbonation is just a simple case of applying head pressure corresponding to beer temperature, I'm not sure all beer styles will appreciate sitting at elevated temperatures for any length of time. I've definitely heard it before and in the early days of Brewdog when they were...

I think your biggest risk is with your packaging as long as you take basic precautions when its in the fermenter. Transferring into a fully purged keg is best. Bottling can be risky unless you have the means to purge the bottle with something like a Blichmann beer gun or a counterflow bottle...

In the mode where you connect to the ispindel you could float the ispindel in water and make a note of the angle, then when you set the PCB back in check it again. If the PCB is a tight fit in the pestle then you can slide it out a bit to make are the angle after the battery change is the same...

lasts for months as long as you don't contaminate it. Get some ph strips and you can measure the PH and discard when its not below some ph level - cant remember what it is, something like 3.5 maybe? I tend to keep it in a large bucket for a good several months before replacing. Usually replace...

I’ve got a jacketed fermenter so it’s in built. It’s an interesting concept though, a Velcro jacket you can pump glycol through. Could probably string a few hot water bottles together and connect them with a hose!!

Hope your coat is less complicated than my jacket!!

Not sure halving the cost of a $7000 component on a $50,000 car will have any impact on the selling price of the car. Especially since what is likely to happen is larger and more expensive batteries will be fitted now to get more range, which is peoples main bugbear with BEV's, thus completely...

Probably teaching granny to suck eggs but worth mentioning just in case; if you've used scissors to cut the line instead of the 'proper' tool, then you need to push something with a slight taper up it to ensure the end has not crimped. It might look OK to the naked eye, but still be misshapen...

I was carrying around a little parasite in one of my feet I picked up on holiday. Doctor said it could be a number of parasites some of which would just die off and some of which would need further medical treatment. I left it for a few weeks and everything seemed to clear up so assume it was...

Complication I can deal with:laugh8: so long as it works of course. Unfortunately I'm space limited so no room for bigger coolbox, plus coolboxes are expensive, and wanted to have a smaller volume of glycol to have less volume, minimising surface area of heat transfer, to get it down to its...

yep, but at this point I'm more concerned about dumping glycol into my coolbox which will overflow and spill all over my floor. I guess to be sure I could install an actuated valve on the outflow so that between the check valve on the pump output and the actuated valve on the glycol loop output...

I got a FloJet pump off eBay. Think it's too much for a home-brew setup, more like a pump that would be used in a proper high commercial brewery, but it works fine and doesn't seem to be causing any issues. I have a ball valve on the output to throttle it back. Most people seem to use those...