Welcome aboard Bung
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Yours is a really interestring first post. One thing I have noticed is that in competitions, it is not uncommon for totally new brewers to do far better than more experienced brewers. My personal view is that, in some ways, it is easier to brew a great beer as a new brewer because your equipment is new. Here's a few examples of how we can get caught out...
1. Me: I had some kegs that unbeknownst to me, had very poor internal welds. The type of fault/infection that this produced could only be tasted by about 30% of palates. (Some of these beers scored silvers in comps.) It took me aboyut three years to isolate and find the cause of that problem,.
2. Another mate in QLD brewed 1500 litres of infected beer (I thin he did 50 litre batches). Everyone told him all sorts of advice. Part of this advice was that kettle taps don't get infected because they are exposed to so much heat. Finally he pulled that tap apart and nearly collapsed from the smell.
These two things have taught me to think very hard about equipment. I have acres of equipment purchases here that, initially I thought would make my brew day faster and easier. Rarely does more equipment do this. Usually, it just causes trouble.
Like many others now, I am an ex three vessel brewer. With the BIAB, use as least equipment as possible would be my advice. One member here spent three or four thousand dollars and hours of time on building his own automated three-vessel brewery. He now BIAB's in an electric urn because he thingk s he gets better beer. That's a pretty good recommendation.
Regarding your question on the electric stuff, I would re-post it as a new thread in
this forum otherwise it might get lost here.
PP
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