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Are there any John Guest (or similar) fittings that will attach to the tap on a little bottler or polypin? They are pretty much identical and I measured them as 11mm. JG do 10 and 12mm and I don't think there's an imperial size that would fit either. It would be nice to have a push fit connector...

I want to add a sight tube to my Buffalo boiler. To avoid cutting a hole I was wondering if I could fit a tee piece between the tap and the boiler and fit the sight tube to this. While the tap is closed I cannot see why this wouldn't work. When the tap is open I imagine that the level would not...

Has anyone used Polyplumb fittings in their brewery? I was thinking of using this to connect a sight tube. I need to connect to 3/8" fittings and John Guest don't do one so this would avoid needing a reducer and nipple. One disadvantage of the Polyplumb is that they are not dismountable. I also...

I found this very interesting. Experiment 5 is very similar to the puffing I saw when I boiled 2L of water in a 2L conical flask.

Is there any reason why I can't fit a stainless steel tap to a plastic FV? I also know someone else was asking about doing the same to a plastic boiler.

I've currently got a brew fermenting with the yeast captured from a bottle of Hop Back Summer Lightning. Starter was pitched into the wort on Tuesday night at 23.30 and there has been a nice krausen since Wednesday morning. I've never top cropped before but was thinking of trying it this time...

My beer engine came with 3/8" ID 5/8" OD beer line. I understand you need thick wall tubing for a hand pump although I don't quite understand why when the pressure will be lower than with a keg. I've seen lots of pictures of hand pump set ups with JG fittings but the maximum OD tubing for them...

I'm getting a hand pump and I'm going to use these with polypins but I'm not sure what size to buy. How long will the beer last once I start drinking it? I do 23L brews and will still want to bottle so the choice is 3L, 5L or 10L, although I could do a mixture. 3L will last a weekend but if I...

How are those of you with large fermenters controlling the wort temperature? Large fridge or water jacket?

The dose for 23L is a quarter of a protofloc tablet. Any tips on cutting it into four pieces? When I tried it I got lots of little bits and had to guess the amount to throw in.

Has anyone made up a Starsan solution using their tap water and citric acid (or another acid). With my tap water the solution goes pretty cloudy (even though the water's alkalinity and hardness is fairly low) so I tried adding a couple of teaspoons of citric acid to the 5L but it is still...

I'm brewing an oatmeal stout with Windsor yeast. It started at 1041 and after 3 days at 20C was down to 1019. After 3 more days it was still at 1019 so I increased the temperature to 21C and roused the yeast. I've increased the temperature by 1C every day so that today, 2 days later, it is at...

I'm planning to do a mini mash on the stove top just for growing yeast (harvested from a bottle or from a slant) and then bottling it as this seems like the easiest way to store yeast long term. I'm thinking I'll only need a 60 minute mash but how long should I boil for? I'm obviously not going...

I've started collecting trub when I bottle and rinsing the yeast to repitch. I've so far done this with dried yeast (Nottingham and S04) with great success. But recently I've read in two places you shouldn't do it with dried yeast. Doesn't anyone know if this is true and why?

I want to move away from dried yeast and fancy trying the Brewlabs yeasts. I've used Nottingham and S04 and would like something more fruity. I bottle so I would like it to sediment well. Any recommendations? The different yeast have different mineral requirements. Anyone know what low, medium...

Has anyone harvested the yeast from a carry out? How do you do it? Is one pint enough? Do you just leave it in the fridge for the yeast to drop out and then treat it like a bottle conditioned beer?

Currently fermenting my first turbo cider in the utility room at about 20C. I'll transfer this to a second demijohn to leave for a couple of months in the garage. Currently it's 16C but will fall down to 4C in winter. Are these temperatures ok for bulk aging?

I want to make turbo cider using the how to. I need some pomegranate juice but all the ones I've seen are no more than about 25% juice. Are these ok? The same applies to cranberry juice. Even the 100% juice version was 75% grape.

The last couple of brews I have bottled have been flat (although there has been a psst when I opened them and there is a little life in the beer). I can think of a couple of reasons this might have happened. 1. Previous brews have been made in colder weather. Once the bottles have been in the...

The mash temperature affects the fermentability of the sugars produced - alpha amylase works better at a higher mash temperature and produces more complex, less fermentable sugars. Beta amylase works at a lower mash temperature and produces simpler, more fermentable sugars. If I have a perfectly...