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Finally got around to buying this and eventually fermenting with it too. Pros and Cons Below. I think this is a great piece of kit, especially anyone who doesn’t have room for a temp controlled fridge or Freezer. Pros. It works really well at controlling the temp, even for cold crashing, I...

Thanks for the quick reply, thanks for confirming that grain absorption. The way you worded it makes perfect sense. I think I will ignore that 4% as I don’t think it would effect the overall too much.

Hey guys, small batch biab brewer here. Just started to use Brewfather, the UI/UX is great compared to beer Smith. Just a quick question regarding water amount my aim is to have 5.5 litres in kettle after boil. I brew a little bit extra to account for losses like trub. With my boil off rate of...

They do mention when using expansion modules, an additional Cooling/Heating Unit may be required. Im hoping I can get some sort of a cold crash with basic version. Do Peltier coolers have a bad rep? Cooling/Heating Unit At room temperature (20°C) the Ferminator can lower the temperature to...

Just spotted this on my usual home brew store. Never seen anything like this on the market, looks like a professionally built son of fermentation chamber, with no ice etc.... Iv been looking for a ferm chamber for a while now. I’m not into the whole changing frozen bottles of ice and I Don’t...

My recipe creation skills aren’t quite there yet, but would love a recipe. I’d say a nice clean lager yeast would work well. HH13 is quite clean and the hop flavour and aroma isn’t too strong. I will be in the open gate brewery in the coming weeks, the staff are very knowledgable on the products...

It’s a 1gallon batch and I did use quite a bit of whirfloc. It was just over a 1/4 of a tablet. I usually cut the tablets into 4 pieces as I do mainly 1 gal batch’s, I’ll post the final beer when it’s done.

Big fan of hop house. it’s in most bars now in Dublin, They had an advert for hop house on tv here in Ireland and it said they use Polaris Hops. But on there website it doesn’t list that hop.

Hey guys. First year hop grower. Got some tettnang growing in the garden. Got these plants sent from Germany when they were really small and transplanted into the ground. Some of the leaves at the bottom of the plants have gone a bit yellow and dead looking just down at the bottom of the plant...

This just looks like a regular old fermentation now, moral of the story. Relax and let the yeast do it’s thing

Hey sorry here’s pics, iv never seen it like this before but I usually brew late enough in the day so I don’t really check fermentation till the next day, maybe I’m not use to seeing this stage of the process

Cheers man, after I posted i was actually thinking I jumped the gun with this post and tried to delete.

Hey guys, just a bit worried somethings up with my yeast. I just brewed a SMASH finished at 1060. Popped some mangrove jacks M44 west coast yeast in. First time i have ever used this yeast. Came back to check on fermenter about 3 hours after pitching and it looks quite strange. Never seen a beer...

Turned out well, bout 2 weeks in the fridge kegged, colour wise it’s quite dark and a bit more roasty than a typical red id be use to. It’s a nice beer and will Defo brew again

Building a fermenatation chamber at the moment, Im considering getting the Inkbird itc-308 but theres one thing I read online which I dont like the sound of… “When your temps get out of range the unit just sounds an alarm and shuts off. You have to adjust the temp parameters again in order to...

Im considering getting the Inkbird itc-308 but theres one thing I read online which I dont like the sound of... "When your temps get out of range the unit just sounds an alarm and shuts off. You have to adjust the temp parameters again in order to raise or lower the temperature to the range you...

Thanks for the feed back guys. As for the amount of water, Im not looking for exactly 1 gallon to bottle, 1 gallon is what im basically looking for as a minimum, Ill take 1.5 or 1.8 if thats what I end up with. The water doesnt look like its overkill, 3.92 goes in the kettle (Ill lose about...

I was thinking maybe just using the temperatures that beersmith gives me and then just Doing a 60 min mash, 90 at most, I presume I'll extract pretty much all the sugars I can within in that time

So in that 75 mins its (65 minutes at 66.7C) and (10 mins mash out at 75.6C) correct? I have it at 2.5 gallon to fermenter, but I will lose some to trub in the kettle and then some to fermenter loss aswell, between .5 gallon and 1 gallon based on what I can gather from other peoples...

thanks for the reply, Im a bit confused with the mash time, so based on the attached image is the mash time 85 mins in total? 75 min mash and then a 10 min mashout? Beersmith is saying mash with 3.92 gallons of water so It wont be to difficult holding temperature, Ill probably end up with...