Recent content by pablobobo

Howya lads, I've got a raspberry sour almost finished, using the Philly Sour yeast. It's tasting great, highly recommend it. However Lallemend say not to use Philly Sour for bottle conditioning so I have a packet of CBC-1 on their recommendation. I've never used a finishing/champagne yeast and...

Got myself an auto siphon for the bottling stage, seemed to be working grand if a bit pernickety. Sanitised it and the bottles etc, prepared the sugar water etc. boring stuff done. As soon as I started using it to siphon to the bottling bucket...disaster. It wouldn't start, the main canister...

Well, an update. It seems to be going grand now, I reduced the amount of insulation over the probe and it stopped swinging so much. Now the stick on thermometer is reading about 19C, the probe reads 16.5C and the beer that I tap out comes in at 18C. Final thoughts: the probe is reading a mix...

Yeah I have a smaller thermowell that I didn't get around to installing due to lack of drill, for sure will have it on my next one. A little worried that I'll have to plug it in where the beer is, as opposed to the lid, as it won't reach all the way into the beer from the lid. Can Brewoloution...

That's reassuring news Chris, someone on another forum said his was colder than the probe was giving him, so that's the 3 of us with a similar situation now. Do you keep it on level 3 fan the whole time? Provided fermentation happens (still no signs yet 18h in) I'm tempted to give it 3 days at...

Yup, so I sanitised it, it's reading 15 degrees in there now and the element has switched to a heat cycle. It reads 17 on the taped on probe. I'm gonna give it the night and see how it looks in the morning and update then.

Perfect, I'll try that, I thought more insulation would be better but is there a chance that it's just keeping the probe warm? Thanks a million for your knowledge and time!

The instructions say to keep it as far back from the heating/cooling element and to insulate it so now I don't know who to believe! It seems to be fluctuating less now, but still some way to go to the desired temperature. No action from the yeast yet so hopefully it's not too cold, because it's...

Mad swings in temperature readings here, first time using this piece of kit. So the probe is insulated fairly well with yoga mat material, touching the side away from the cooling unit. I've seen anywhere between 18 and 26 degrees so I'm really confused as to what the thermometer is actually...