Recent content by Spinal

What about star-clean? It's like star-san (no rinse needed), but non-foaming, so can be used with a fastwasher :)

Howdy, joining from Europe, where I've spent many years bottling wine (we get it from petrol-pumps to fill a demijohn, then you bring that home and bottle it) and distilling all sorts. Only recently got into brewing, and found this forum while looking for a recipe for a lager I had many many...

Those wands are cheap, even here where everything costs an arm and a leg... so ordered one. Though the only one I found has a silicone hose, which I guess doesn't really change much. I'm fermenting in my smallest barrels that I usually use for fermeting prior to distillation (30liters), and...

I bought a pack of 50 car washing towels at costco (our local alternative). They aren't big (about a foot-and-a-half by a foot-and-a-half), but they are dirt cheap... and white, so any stains can easily be bleached out.

Resurrecting an ancient thread - I'm new to brewing, and already planning on my first grain mash. Would love to try to clone something from a previous life - in this case "julbrew". This is (was - as they shut down and now brew from neighboring Senegal with a different recipe), a very light...

I didn't consider that... at the moment, I bottle with one of these (Bottle filler enameled with 3 connectors steel cod. E3S - Grifo Marchetti) - which works wonders when bottling wine from demijohns to 75cl bottles. Was planning on going: Fermentation barrel -> second clean sterilised barrel...

Oh wow, that's a lot of helpful replies! Thank you!!! Luckily (or unluckily, not sure) - twist-off beer bottles here are very rare. It's only crown cap, cork or screw-cap (not sure if that's the right term, like on a PET bottle, but glass). As I bottle and can a fair amount of distillates, I...

Hello, I’m very new to brewing… in fact, I got into brewing last time I was picking up supplies and the store owner gave me a muntons brown beer kit… which is now fermenting. I’ve done some wine before, but never beer. That said - reading the instructions I’m told to put half a teaspoon of...