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I have a brew which I want to keg plus a few bottles. As it is in an Allrounder at about 10psi my go to technique is to fill a corny with Starsan, connect gas and pump out Starsan via a party tap. I then connect the Allrounder to the corny fluid out and the party tap to the gas in plus gas to...

There have been threads on this and I know a couple of respected forumites use no chill but these are just some quick observations of my own. I normally brew in a Klarstein boiler and then do a major whirlpool at the end using a big homemade paddle and a battery drill. When I siphon into the fv...

I’ve started brewing under pressure with my Fermzilla Allrounder and wondered if this effects the accuracy of my iSpindle, or a Tilt. My thoughts are that if it does it is fairly insignificant. If the ’tube’ on both isn’t compressed then the displacement stays the same so the buoyancy remains...

I have been away quite a bit recently but desperate to put a brew on I decided to do an Urquelle clone on a free day. Having put it in my All Rounder I trusted that my spunding valve had been left at 12psi, added the yeast and set off again. On Saturday I was about for a couple of hours and...

I have posted this separately to the Mob Craft Brewery recipe vault link elsewhere but I rather fancy the sound of this recipe: https://www.mobcraftbeer.com/recipes/black-bear-dynasty As with all these recipes the devil; is in the absent detail. When would you suggest putting in the fruit and...

I am sure this would have been spotted before but full marks to Mob Craft Brewery for posting all their recipes: https://www.mobcraftbeer.com/vault I also really like their 'crowdsourced' beer idea but you need quite a few chimney pots around the brewery to do this as it seems to be collection...

I am looking for an electrical enclosure to use as the basis for the control panel of my electrical brewery. I have to check on size but something around the 600H x 400W x 150D. They all seem to be quite expensive, cheapest about £70, is this the going rate or is there somewhere I should be...

The title pretty much says it all. The instructions list chemicals that can’t be used in the Fermzilla, some of which I don’t recognise, but wondered if Starsan is OK as it is mildly acidic.

Having just bought a Fermzilla All Rounder I brewed my first beer, a Landlord Clone, under pressure. Not the right beer for pressure fermenting but I had to use the new toy. The brew has been brewing for around three or so weeks as I have been out of the country and thanks to my iSpindel I have...

I was tidying my brew shed yet again last night as I have to keep it perfectly tidy to make space for everything and wondered if we all do this as I even see some Youtube Channels apparently working under the stairs. My brew shed is 10' x 8' and I know I am lucky to have this space but at a...

Well actually it arrived a week or so ago but I opened it on the weekend and put a brew in it on Sunday. First impressions were really good. I assembled it, including the pressure kit, very easily but didn’t tighten anything up more than hand tight. Gassed it up to 5 psi and it immediately...

I have started using this company for stainless steel fittings for my electric brewery build: https://www.graphskill.com/ They seem very good on price, quick delivery, cheap postage and a good quality product. Also handy for screws, jubilee clips, etc. Obviously, no connection to me...

Firstly, just to make clear this near miss had nothing to do with equipment failure or malfunction but purely operator error and if I had read the manual I am sure I would have been fine. My HLT is controlled by an PID and when I finished my brew last week I switched it off using the off button...

I was posting in one of @Chippy_Tea threads about bottling from a corny that I was using as a secondary fermenter. That corny I had banked over to one side away from the liquid tube hoping that The trub would settle there. In actuality as I have now decided to bottle the brew then I fully expect...

Anyone used these little gizmos https://www.brewsmarter.co.uk/metal-strap-for-fliptop-cap-10-pieces-convert-any-bottle-to-a-swing-top-1832-p.asp I’ve seen synthetic replacement flip caps for not much more so at, say, 45p a bottle it seems quite a good way to convert your existing bottles. If...

Apologies for the click bait title and I guess even my ramblings are lockdown induced but I am always slightly defensive when I tell people I am a home brewer. As has been discussed in the forum before home brew has a terrible reputation in the minds of most as it conjures up the stomach rot...

I try to rinse my bottles as soon as they are finished, the missus also runs them through the dishwasher if she sees them lying about, god bless her, and then I store them clean so they don’t need much before bottling. However, I get the odd dirty bottle, I use 500ml one‘s, and clean them by...

I have just bought an assembled iSpindel off eBay for £40 inc. delivery which I thought was a good price and allows me to dip my toe in the digital hydrometer market without the expense of the Tilt. I appreciate that there is another thread on the iSpindel but it is fairly techie and I thought...

I am getting to the point on my electric brew system build where I need to order a couple of pumps. I am not in the market for the professional ones that are a good few hundred quid and would like to avoid the ones that are knocking on the door of £200 each. So without me buying rubbish can...

I was pointed in the direction of this company on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=the+mesh+company&hvadid=8862313341&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&qid=1581331688&ref=sr_pg_1 Looks like a good source for perforated sheet steel at a fair price but can anyone give me a few pointers. I need to...