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This is the best deal I've seen these going for in a while. They're from the offical Kegland store on AliExpress. It says £24, but with tax that comes in at about £29. Good deal.

You say that, but I can't find anywhere that it's cheaper than £36. EDIT: Aaaand I misread your post!

I'm interested in buying a RAPT thermometer, and they seem to be cheaper on AliExpress, however there seems to be different types on there for different prices and don't want to buy a dud or scam one. There's this which is actually sold by the Kegland store on Ali, at £30. But there's also...

I'm a bit disappointed by the whirlpool arm. It doesn't actually seem to get much of a whirlpool going at all. I've seen there are modifications you can do to improve it though. I've so far just been doing everything manually because I've not been able to get the mash temp stable yet, unless...

Yeah it's a session pale I've brewed so the ABV doesn't matter much, and I achieved a higher than expected OG so I don't mind a slightly higher FG and a bit more body. It ended up being a 68-69C mash rather than target 66-67C. I do have my own mill, but it's one of those hand ones that I picked...

Pre-crushed from GEB. So I'm unsure. It didn't seem to be particularly different than the many other grains I've ordered from them however.

This is pretty genius. I've got one lying somewhere as well so I'll give that a shot. It shouldn't be hard to suspend it through the hole in the lid as well. How did you manage to calibrate the PID? I've had a look but I've got no idea what any of the abbreviations are. Was there a particular...

I had it 100%, and I tried playing around with the ball lock at different levels to see if it had any impact (it didn't). It kept making a weird sounding noise, which makes me think that was it trying to pump wort when there was no wort to pump. But also, it might have just been getting blocked...

The mash thickness was 3.8 l/kg. I don't think my grist was particularly weird - pale ale (59.5%), vienna (18%), munich (12%), and cara 50 (10.5%). I can't remember where I got this from, I'm fairly sure it was online I found it somewhere, and just changed the hop additions. I initially had the...

I just had a bit of a weird brew day with my BZ4, and I'm not even sure if this was a problem of the BZ4. The pump kept blocking, a lot, and the temperature was crazy all over the place. When I finally finished the mash, I pulled the grain basket up and found the wort to be running incredibly...

Great info fluketamer. Think I'll hold off the larger 8L PET kegs. I never have that much extra after filling a corny, and if they aren't much smaller than a corny, then I have the same problem of trying to chill them to serve when away from my keezer. I do like the look of those other smaller...

Relighting this as I'm interested in these PET kegs as party kegs. How well do the 8L kegs sit in a fridge on their side? And are you able to then serve from them this way?

My keezer recently broke down, and I'm currently looking for a new one. I'd rather not buy a new fridge/freezer as there seem to be plenty of secondhand ones. Well, plenty of secondhand fridges. Freezers are harder to come by, at least one that'll fit two cornys. Many have those stupid little...

I'm currently brewing an oatmeal stout using a BrewZilla 4. My mash efficiency? 107% apparently according to Beersmith. Obviously I've messed up somewhere. But I don't know how. My hydrometer works fine, and I know how to use it. I gave the wort a good stir before taking the post-mash reading...

Same thing happened to me. It suddenly stopped working during fermentation. When I pulled it out after fermentation, I noticed beer inside. I emailed the AssetSolution guys and they repaired it for me. All I had to do was post it to them. Since then I've done another fermentation with it and...

Is BrewSpy what they use now? When I got mine they recommended I use Ubidots, which is clunky and I'm not a fan of.

64% seems a bit low for BIAB. I used to achieve at least 70% mash efficiency, and with minimal fermenter loss, and a 30 minute boil, the brewhouse efficiency came in around 70% as well, sometimes higher. I even achieved a few 80% mash efficencies. Give the mash a stir every 15-20 minutes...

So there's the recoverable deadspace, and deadspace losses. I've got the recoverable deadspace as 2.5, as this is the space underneath the grain basket that gets recirculated. However I don't think there are any deadspace losses with the BZ4. Have you set your recoverable deadspace as 0? If I...

I can only fit two kegs in my keezer, but have three. So I'll often have a beer sat in one waiting for another to run out. Never had any issues.

I think I'll continue to use my coil chiller, but only use it enough to fill a bucket of warm water to use to clean up. My brew last week I managed to fill up two 25-30L buckets, and then had to start dumping the rest into the sink, and I still only got to about 30C.