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   1. UK Biab 60 ltr Barrel

      by moctez, 13 years ago in Electric BIAB

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      Hi folks,
      
      Not sure of the rules on this forum about posting links to retailers but if you look you can find 60 ltr barrel for about £6 + postage just add an immersion element and tap and you've got a cheap and big biab boiler.
      
      Cheers

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      HDPE plastic is considered food safe and is used for milk jugs. Sorry to step in again on this but it is important that people realise that a food-safe rating is highly dependant on temperature. A milk jug is not exposed to the same temperatures as wort is exposed to. A plasic might be food-grade at 20C (ambient) but not be food-grade at mash temperatures. There are other plastics that are food-grade at mash temperatures but are not food-safe once they have been exposed to boiling point.
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      Nuff
      13 years ago
   2. Harveys Sussex Best Bitter

      by moctez, 13 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      Hi folks,
      
      I am planning a clone of Harveys Sussex Best which is the no 1 beer here in Lewes, Sussex, UK. I am struggling to find an exact recipe but from scouring the net I have come up with this, I think the base recipe came from Dave Lines old brewing book and I have amended this in terms of yeast, grain and hop quantities. Now not being very experienced in recipe formulation I'd appreciate any comments that the (and don't I use the word lightly) genius' on this site have.
      Yeast is an issue...

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      Yeasty - you young man are a star! When my new boiler is made this will be the brew to Christan it I shall take a bottle to the pub and give a taste and colour test and post some pictures back here.
      
      Thanks for your input.
      
      Grmski
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      moctez
      13 years ago
   3. 1st biab attempt

      by moctez, 14 years ago in Full-Volume Variations - FVV (diluting and/or sparging)

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      Hi - I'm awaiting the grain to arrive before starting my first maxi-biab attempt and am looking for some reassurance I suppose that I am on the right track with my process.
      I have an 18l electric urn with a 30cm diameter and about 5 cm of dead space above the max line. Having used the maxi-biab calc I expect to be able to fit 15l of water and 5.7kg of grain into the mash. After mash I will sparge with just boiled water upto roughly 7 or 8 l to take the urn back to capacity. After the 90min boil...

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      Yes, it depends on your lid. Mine clears the mash if the mash is 1cm below the lip
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      stux
      14 years ago

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