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For reasons, I'm interested in fitting a commercial keg fitting to a Corney keg. Specifically, to suit a Type A flat fitting (see images below). Does anyone know if lids with such fittings have ever been made for Corney kegs? I guess I can imagine something like: a) The Corney posts are...

I'm looking to buy a temperature probe and controller, with Wifi. The Inkbird ITC-308 looks pretty much what I need! However, I have some additional requirements.... I'd like the device to include ability to send data via mqtt, or some other API protocol (JSON would be fine). If this is not...

I realise this is a home brew forum, but thought it might be interesting to post about my latest adventure. Myself and a couple of associates here in Austria have been homebrewing for a while now, sharing our beers among ourselves and friends. We decided during COVID lockdown that we're going...

I'm keen to hear if anyone has some experiences to share with Wyeast 3068 in a Hefeweizen. A couple of weeks ago I brewed a Hefeweizen and pitched Wyeast 3068 from a smack pack. This is the first time I've ever used a liquid yeast. Fermentation was for 12 days. Yeast pitched at 19c and...

A friend and I recently bought some branded growlers from iKegger and I thought to write a short review of the transaction. The rationale behind the purchase was that we like to share our beer with friends and colleagues, but as we both keg, transferring to 500ml bottles was a bit tiresome. Not...

I really have a thing going for wheat beers at the moment. I currently have a Dunkelweizen in the fermenter, which is my third wheat based beer in the last five brews. I'm going to have a crack at a Weizenbock for warming hearts in deep January and February. The recipe is largely an extension...

After seeing a post on here earlier about a "Guten / Brew Devil", I thought, what is this Guten thing. After searching I came across the Guten Brew website. Seems like they're located just around the metaphorical corner from me in Slovenia. On their website they're advertising used full size...

I've just started watching the series Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood on Netflix. Finally a period drama I can enjoy! So far only up to the second episode, but I'm really enjoying it. As a bit of a counterpoint to the "I don't watch TV'" threads, this is something worth watching I reckon. I also...

A while ago I bought a wort plate chiller from China, via the Alibaba website. Yesterday was the first time I had a chance to use it. My wort temperature went from 96C to 26C in a touch under 20 minutes. I was quite impressed with this efficiency. Next time I'd consider immersing the plate...

I would like to buy some bittersweet apple concentrate, but am having a hard time finding anything that isn't a bulk purchase. The smallest I've found is 25 litres from the UK and a French supplier selling 40 litre minimums. Essentially, as I live outside the UK, it's very difficult to find...

I decided to have a go at home malting. My motivation is this all rye farmhouse recipe from Russia. Reading that article there's a couple of quite interesting aspects: The beer is 100% all rye grain The rye is malted at home The malt is not dried The malt is crushed with a meat grinder, which...

This could be a long one, as there's a bit of a story. I wanted to put on a brew using a Kveik yeast, which of course needs to ferment at a higher temperature. I haven't to date actively monitored the temperature of my fermentation, apart from using the sticky thermometers which go on the...

About eight times out of ten when bottling I forget to pop the airlock from the top of the fermenter, which results in a quick panic about 5 seconds after starting to bottle as liquid from the airlock starts to be sucked back into the brew. If I do remember to pop the airlock, I have started to...

A topic not so much about books and publications, but I didn't know which other sub-forum to put this in. As well as a homebrewer, I'm a bit of an IT nerd who can also program software a little bit. I like to mess about on computers basically. I wanted to start the thread to mention a couple...

Busy day on Sunday. Had some apples in the cellar over winter. Needed to do something with them, so made this 8 litres of cider. Starting gravity 1052. Used Mangrove Jack Cider Yeast M02. I also learned that using a juicer to make cider sucks. Last week I bought a juicer. I thought to myself...

Perhaps not really a beer, but not really a cider or mead either, so it goes in this forum. Started a Kvass this evening. A what? Kvass. It's a typical fermented low alcohol drink from Eastern Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass We had some stale-ish rye bread left and rather than...

There doesn't seem to be a section for cider making equipment specifically, so I'll add this here. When I started making cider from local apples, I was using a hand cranked grinder. It was labour intensive and quite slow. Last year I bought a "home made" electric grinder from a guy in Slovakia...

After checking the member map, I could be the only person registered here living in Austria. I thought the least I could do is introduce myself. An Australian living in Austria, via way of the UK. I left Australia for two years, eighteen years ago. Never seemed to find my way back to live there...