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Hydrometers are a bit like tape measures ;) The worse case would be HMRC insisting on Plaato's 'reinvented' airlock [Boycie]

You don’t seem to be having much luck with your mashes, Trapdoor, do you? I doubt, as your title suggests, it’s anything to do with the BM itself. Mash efficiency for a 20L BM is typically around 78%, in my experience. Optimal grain crush for a BM is about 1.2mm. Best to mill it yourself so you...

I'm an atheist with a pretty good idea where to stick bibles ;)

Next time I'm back home, Southampton, I'll pay them a little visit, as they're only up the road. I'll turn them upside down then drop them on their fecking heads athumb..

15 Euros plus extortionate postage rates? That's hilarious. Norwegians have unreasonable expectations, don't they? Especially considering what you're actually buying here are spud moonshine yeast :laugh8:

If you can't get hold of any marketed-to-death 'kveik' any other distiller's yeast should be fine at higher fermentation temps. The reported characteristics of kveik that make hysterical fanboys go weak at the knee were most likely selected for by fermenting high gravity spud washes, to produce...

More than 25 stone? Good grief! You might want to avoid anything home brew :laugh8:

Didn't overstretch a little on your BrewTools stock, by any chance, did you? clapa

And that's just for the simple step, producing wort 😆

A 50L BM should quench your thirst. I'm planning on running both my old 20L and my new 50L at the same time, to show how easy it is to make wort on a BM. I'll be painting a landscape watercolour after pressing 'start' for the mashes. To be honest, owing to their sporadic supply, despite apparent...

Hampshire and Sussex mainly. Surveyed the old yews across the Downs many moons ago and I remember that one quite well. A fine beast. I was considering a BrewTools system, but after a lot of consideration and looking passed all the fanboy hysteria on social media, I decided to go for another...

That was a bit of a giant leap, wasn't it? Financially too. The BrewTools system is the most expensive one pot brewing system on the market today, despite not being fully assessed for being over designed therefore labour intensive. I guess that's what happens when design meetings aren’t managed...

I was thinking about getting one from bacbrewing specifically for my old (but perfectly functional) 20L BM, but have made do with a hop bag over the Speidel ‘filter’. This seems effective enough, but I use whole hops mainly. I think I’ll have to give one these springer filters a go :cool:

That looks like it's doing a good job, @foxy. Is a springer type filter?

Or the 'hop stand' instead of 'whirlpool hops'. I'm not entirely convinced whirlpooling is even effective at home-brew scales. A little time, gravity and good old-fashioned diffusion is likely sufficient in most cases. I've never witnessed the required velocity being achieved at home-brew scales...

I'd say any confusion here seems to be due to David Heath erroneously overlooking the fact that hops don't freeze due to their low moisture content thereby act as very, very poor insulators. Once removed from a freezer and their packaging they soon feel at room temperate for some 'bizarre'...

Dry hopping with hops straight from the freezer can cause a temperature shift that affects yeast? So put hops in the fridge for a day or two before dry hopping? Really? Hops have a moisture content <10%. They don't actually freeze. How are they going to cause a shift in temperature, exactly? 🤔

Most of that trub is 'hot break' and, after the boil, 'cold break'. Faffing around with the mash is a pointless exercise. That ain't gonna make me popular, but that never stopped me, fortunately...

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Depends on the 'efficiency' of your mash set up and procedure. Personally, I don't take it seriously at all. As long as I get to, or close to, my predicted pre-boil target, I'm happy. What you might want to consider is that if you're extracting significantly more sugars using your proposed...