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  1. photek1000

    Equipment For Sale Homebrewing Set up for sale, kit to 3 Vessel AG

    Hi, I haven't brewed a while so it's time to pass on all my collected gear, the photos give an idea as to what there is, but here is a list of the main items I guess, Collection from Reading please, crates in the photos also available. If someone does want it all please make me an offer...
  2. photek1000

    Portable Keezer

    Watching some of the videos coming out of the US Homebrew Con and saw this, nice idea for portability or just a lack of space on a full time basis. Certainly one I may entertain in the future for a little DIY project.
  3. photek1000

    Dual use Fridge Freezer

    Been mulling this over as I'm about to tidy up my garage and you never know have enough space for at least a brew fridge, but I was thinking if I got an upright Fridge Freezer could I strip enough of the controls out of it to control each section individually and have a ferm chamber and a...
  4. photek1000

    Temperature Monitoring

    Has anyone tried one of these Inkbird IBS-TH1 devices https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07748V35X/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I'm interested in monitoring my brew temperatures, I can see the temp each time I wander off to the garage, but it would be fun to be able to see how it has been...
  5. photek1000

    Pressure Barrel to Growler

    I use pressure barrels for my beers at the moment, which is great when I am at home and can pop to the garage for a pint, but very annoying if I am travelling out and fancy taking any of my own beer with me. After looking at a possible travelling solution I came across the idea of using...
  6. photek1000

    Pressure Regulator for PB

    Now I may be heading down a world of pain here but is there a pressure regulator set up out there I could use to attach between a S30 bottle and valve on a Pressure Barrel to hold the PB at a constant pressure rather than topping up when I think it needs it. Kind of a poor mans corny set up...
  7. photek1000

    Stove Topper Mild

    I Have a couple of 20L FVs on the go at the moment, but fancy having a bit of an experiment on the run up to Christmas whilst they are fermenting. How does this sound as a little 5L Stove Top Brew. Title: Stove Topper Mild Brew Method: All Grain Style Name: No Profile Selected Boil...
  8. photek1000

    In Line Filtration

    Has anyone ever used something similar to this https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00420OIT8/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 when transferring from the kettle to the fermenter? I did two brews yesterday and there was quite a bit of trub in my sample jar and I'll assume also in my FVs. My Mash Tun...
  9. photek1000

    Finally a brew day

    Well it's been a while since my last post, don't get to visit this glorious forum much at the moment, busy at home and work have very unfairly blocked the site :-( Anyway, taken a day off work to get back on the Home Brew Horse, maybe a bit ambitious but planning a two brew day tomorrow...
  10. photek1000

    Hot weather & Old beers

    So I was in the garage earlier taking the rubbish out and heard a bang, like a tyre giving way, I couldn't work out for the life of me what it was, checked all the bikes etc. Out there again just now to check the temperature in the fermentation box I find the cause of the bang, an old bottle of...
  11. photek1000

    Hop Spider or Hop Bags

    I am looking at introducing either the use of a Hop Spider or Hop Bags to help limit the trub in the boil kettle. Any pro's or con's to one over the other or a bit of a much of a much'ness? I'm looking at ideas for my rapidly approaching birthday so if Hop Spider any reccomendations for one at...
  12. photek1000

    3 Vessel AG Brew day

    My next brewday planned for the Bank Holiday with have coming up will be the first run of my cheap as chips 3 vessel set up, rather than the BIAB I have been doing and I just want to check over some water & recipe calculations. It's an off the shelf English IPA All grain Kit from Get'er'Brewed...
  13. photek1000

    Recipes - How To?

    I'm only a few All-Grain brews in but as this hobby can fill almost any waking moment with thinking about kit changes, next beers to brew etc I think about brewing my own recipes rather than pre-assembled AG kits. I know there is lots of options for software to help in building recipes but is...
  14. photek1000

    New FV reccomendations

    I'm in the market for a new FV or two, nothing flashy still in the plastic arena, but I wouldn't mind something that seals really nicely, my current old FVs have been fine for brewing but just once I'd like to see a bubble through my airlock :lol: So what reccomendations do you have, don't mind...
  15. photek1000

    Beer not hitting target Gravity

    Mu second AG brew has been in the FV for about 3.5 weeks now, after 2 weeks it was down to 1.018 so not, I upped the temp in my little brew chamber I've built to 20c to see if I could get it to ferment out to the 1.010 I'm aiming for, but all it's done is drop to 1.015-16, I can't see it...
  16. photek1000

    Funny Boiler boil

    Used my Peco boiler for my second BIAB brew today, a couple of issues. Had a funny on\off rolling boil in the last 20 minutes of a 90 minute boil, shown in the video, which I can't get to embed for some reason. https://youtu.be/q9YU-aSgB5Y Any ideas what could cause this, there is no...
  17. photek1000

    BIAB Efficiency calculation

    As I move further into AG brewing with my BIAB set up I'd like to work out the efficiency I'm getting, but I'm not clear on how I do it. Do I work it out on just the mash volume, or because I sparge into another vessel after the mash is it worked out on the combined pre boil volume. Looking...
  18. photek1000

    Water Volumes

    I'm trying to get my head around a Hobgoblin style recipe I'm planning for next week and the volumes of water required. It will be a BIAB brewday, the ingredients are an off the shelf pack and consists of approx 5KG grain and 45g of hops, the recipe is aiming for 19L in the FV, all fine so...
  19. photek1000

    Ball valve tap leak

    I have a ball valve tap as an upgrade on my Peco boiler but I can't get it to seal properly. The hole is snug so I have to screw the thread threw it, I have re wrapped the thread as there was virtually no PTFE on it, the washer metal and rubber are on the outside and the leak is coming out...
  20. photek1000

    Nasty Pressure Barrel

    So I grabbed my Pressure Barrel today to get it ready and the damn thing is mouldy in places, the tap I can replace cheaply enough but what's the best way to clean the barrel itself and kill any nasties lurking within?
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