HLT?
Definitely not too hot - without too much detail it's effectively brewing outside with a temp controlled brew belt keeping it between 18 and 19 degrees.
I have had hints of TCP before which could well be due to the brew getting a bit warm, but this stuff is foul. Something went very wrong...
So I tried a Wellington Wheat Beer kit from the Home Brew Shop. It's been in the keg now for a month and tastes dreadful - properly chemical as if I emptied a bottle of TCP in there. As for hoppiness, seems to have very little actual flavour which is what I was after having really enjoyed...
Sorry to resurrect an old(ish) thread but I have a similar problem. I bought my 2kg bottle off Norm last year and it's only now running out. I want to make sure I can hook up a new bottle from http://gascylindersuk.co.uk/shop/index. ... &cat_id=18 to my regulator - can anyone confirm or deny...
To be precise, I got this one:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0303255556
(accidentally ordered it through the missus' account :whistle: ) It's the orange thing underneath the edge of my fermenter in the photo.
Here's the temp controller
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...
Nope, still looks correct. NB talking about a brew belt, not a heat mat. Convection will create a falling current at the centre with temperatures lowest at the bottom. The best place for an average reading is top centre therefore.
The opposite. In fact the coldest point (the last to be heated by free convection) would be at the bottom centre. I'm sure it makes naff all difference really. If we had to keep it constant to within a tenth of a degree this stuff would matter.
Not Trying to start an argument, I have no problem with danglng a little molded plastic sensor by its wire from the lid just like you hsve no problem cutting a hole in the side of your fermenter and taking readings from there... to each his own. Either way is better than the yo-yoing temp I was...