Hey PistolPatch , cheers for that. I'll give the Munich Helles a go in the near future. I work in a commercial diagnostic veterinary laboratory and spend most of my day analysing blood results using sophisticated instruments and analysers. I am also quite heavily involved in the quality assurance of...

Hi @tizoc ,

Fortunately the Irish red that I brewed on the weekend wasn't heavily hopped - so maybe I'll get away with it. I really liked your suggestion of the silicone tubing on the top of the kettle.

Thanks again

Jon

So, a few important questions that haven't been asked or answered here yet are, "What sort of beer do you want to brew and when do you want to drink it?" Every beer style is different. Some require exquisite care to brew, some we can brew while riding a train. What we want to know here though, firs...

Get yourself an auto siphon. This beautiful tool makes liquid transfers quick and easy. If you get one you will find yourself using it multiple times during a brew. Fermtech Regular 5/16" Auto Siphon With 8 feet of Tubing, Clear, 1 Piece https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00AYHS7ZY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Txqj...

After that batch with the big kettle, I switched to boiling the wort using a smaller kettle (32L), which I have adapted to work as a fermenter too. What is different in that kettle is that I used silicon tubing on the perimeter of the kettle opening so that I can make it airtight when the lid is on...

Thanks for the replies tizoc and mally, greatly appreciated. I have considered leaving the pot to cool overnight with the lid on - the pot I have is a large stock pot with a loosely fitting lid (certainly not sealed or airtight). However, after reading some posts on other sites, the thought of bugs ...

Hi, I'm looking at shortening my brew-day and have been following some of the threads on the "no-chill" method. Not only should this save me some time but I've always been uncomfortable using so much water for cooling wort (house is on rain water tanks). I use a large 50L pot for boiling that doesn'...

Hi, my name is Jon and I live in beautiful rural new Zealand. I heard about this site and BIAB while listening to the Beersmith podcast #10 from 2011. I have recently become interested in brewing and have just brewed my first kit homebrew - about to prime and bottle this coming weekend (fingers cros...