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I recently purchased a 30 litre Burco boiler and want to fit a steel tap to it so that I can connect a reinforced uPVC tube to it so I can add mash water to the tun without mess and sparge directly from the boiler. The boiler will be my HLT. I am trying to work out which tap will fit and...

Thanks both. The plumb nation place doesnt deliver to orkney for free unfortunately, and the one from ideal lighting was actually the one i ordered. it was meant to be free delivery but they advised of a further £26 charge to send to orkney. this brought me to the igenix boiler, as...

Any thoughts on this boiler? Igenix IG4030 Catering Urn 2,500 W - 30 L, Stainless Steel http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004VKYEHU/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 The burco one is costing a lot in postage and i am wondering whether this might be a better bet in any case? cheers, Mike

Genius, thanks! Never realised you could get such a thing!

Thanks for the reply. It sounds a good boiler. Re. the timer, are you able to show me a link to something which would work? I want to be able to set the boiler to come on before i get up so the water is ready to mash first thing in the morning. Thanks, M

I didnt quite go through with the purchase at the time and am thinking about getting this bit of equipment now. One further question if I may - does it have a timer switch so you can start the water heating automatically? I am keen to have the water heating up ready for first thing in the...

Hi there, Does anyone know how to replace the seal kit on a beer engine? I bought an EWL paragon beer engine on ebay assuming this was a simple task, but it isnt obvious... Thanks in advance for your help. Michael.

Oops - this one. must have forgotten to paste to original post. Burco Cygnet Commercial 30L Catering Hot Water Boiler Tea Urn - Stainless Steel

Hi there, I am considering this boiler to heat my sparge water. I was wondering if anyone can advise whether it would be possible to fit a tap to this which would take a syphon tube? And does anyone know from experience how reliable this model is at maintaining specific temperatures...

The 450g is 3.25 - 2.8. The other way I can think of explaining what I mean is, I made a Youngs American APA kit recently which had a 3kg pouch of LME and a 60g bag of brewing sugar. That came out at 5.6% ABV. So if 2.8kg of fermentables = approx. 4%, and 3.6kg of fermentables = 5.6%, wouldn't...

1043 - 1010 = 33. 33 x 131 = 4.323%. so that seems to work. The thing I am not sure about is whether that extra 450g of fermentables (the difference between a 2.8kg kit and the 3.25kg that is required to make this recipe with extract) will only make a 0.3% difference to the beer?

I didn't realise wheat grains couldn't be steeped. That decides it then, I will use Wheat LME. In terms of the ABV - how do you work this out? I was just guestimating that if a 4% kit used a 1.5kg can (just realised this is actually generally 1.8kg, so 2.8kh in total rather than 2.5kg as per...

Thanks for the feedback, those webpages look very helpful. From my reading of them, if I was using dry malt, wouldn't it be 1.95kg of light dry malt (0.6 x 3.25) and 0.6kg wheat malt (0.6 x 1)? As I am likely to use LME rather than DME, this would be 2.5kg (0.75 x 3.25) pale malt extract...

Hi there, I am planning to have a go at cloning a beer called Trade Winds by Cairngorm Brewery. I have found an All Grain recipe on line, but was wondering how this can be converted to extract? From googling, I understand that you should use approx 3/4 as much extract as grain, but, looking at...

just bumping this thread back to the surface in case anyone can help. thanks

Hi there, I am planning to have a go at cloning a beer called Trade Winds by Cairngorm Brewery. I have found an All Grain recipe on line, but was wondering how this can be converted to extract? From googling, I understand that you should use approx 3/4 as much extract as grain, but, looking...

Christ on a bike this is a good brew. Personally I find it much better than the APA, which isn't bitter enough for me. This one has a lot of flavour and is really worth making.

forgot to say how I got on with this one. the end result was really quite bitter. over time it settled out into a nice balanced flavour. if I did this again, I would probably not boil any of the hops, instead steeping them or dry hopping with them. id also be tempted to try it with a less...

I found it did taste akin to a wheat beer from the shops when I made it, and I found that pouring chilling the beer and pouring the sediment into the beer glass as recommended helped with this.

no thoughts on the brewing process suggested above anyone?