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Thanks for sharing! I like this recipe. Think I'll give it a shot!

Wow looks great! Really nice amber colour. What's your grain bill? Hops?

Thanks a lot for sharing the info....Did you fix the insulation yourself or is it some kind of box that came with insulation. Nonetheless will check out the DIY videos. I suppose if it's covered it would make a huge difference...The bucket i'm using is just open so obviously I lose (or gain...

Thanks! @McKnuckle That's good! @dmtaylor That's great to know as well. Should be good then...managed to keep it averaging at 16 C I would say..

BTW @McKnuckle .....how do I know if there's enough health yeast before I carbonate....or if I need to repitch?

Thanks for the encouragement! I definitely planned to lager for at least 4 weeks. After that will keep a few bottles for a while longer to experiment. It's the fermentation phase that's a problem for me cos I can't control the temperature too well. However if the lagering makes up for some of...

Oh that's great....well it's an experiment for me anyway..I'll make a note of all the off flavours if any...Hopefully the esters will surprise me!

Great to know! Hopefully it forgives me and the beer doesn't exact a yo-yoing revenge upon me.

I decided to attempt my first lager (BIAB). Just a clean pilsner - 100% pilsner malt and saaz, that's it. Saflager W 34/70. I have no fancy equipment whatsoever. Really elementary setup of putting the fermenter in a wide bucket filled with water, replacing frozen PET bottles to keep it cold...

Re: cooling overnight....It's only what i've seen in a few homebrew channels online. Sometimes they choose to just leave the wort to cool overnight (covered of course). I have no idea why they choose to do this vs using the immersion/plate chillers they have. @Tobor_8thMan thanks for the...

Hahaha... easy lads....this isn't youtube! I appreciate all your advice very much. Honestly each tip is something I didn't know before. Although now I have no clue whether oxygenating my wort by pouring/not pouring over ice at ideal/not ideal temperature is right/wrong 😅 😅 @toboR That's a...

Wow...there actually is a calculator to calculate slurry volume. Brilliant. Thanks!

Thanks, finally makes sense to me now :D Good thing I didn't try to pour out a compacted yeast um.... brick. Gotta try this with my next batch. Yeast is working out to be the most expensive homebrew ingredient.

That's cool! I love the screw tops as well..really convenient and they actually keep the beer good for the time it takes you to drink half the bottle and the pour out the other half..

Great to know there are other PET bottlers out there....or at least that it's not a complete taboo! This batch as well...whatever souring happened, happened in the fermenter and not in the bottles. I'm pretty thorough with sanitizing bottles..unfortunately no StarSan where I am but I use...

Yup 😅 Well for a few reasons. Liquor stores have been close during the lockdown so I can't source empty bottles. Furthermore can't afford a capper right now. Third, PET actually tolerates close to 3x more vols of CO2 than glass bottles so if I have an incomplete fermentation, I don't have to...

I was wondering if reused PET bottles which I use for bottling could be a problem as well. Thing is they are never scrubbed with anything abrasive so they can't really develop scratches. But even aside from that, I don't know if there are any number of other factors that can render PET bottles...

Thank you Sean, for sharing your experience! Acetaldehyde and lacto....hmmm. I can't say I'll ever be able to know how it got in but I'll have to cut out some of the more risky steps I described earlier. And yeah about the sours....I'm gonna keep a few bottles as an experiment and see what...

That's interesting....how hot is the sparge water? I know PET can't handle very hot...Boiling water will start to melt it instantly. HDPE can take higher temperatures for sure, I don't know how high that threshold goes. I'd be interested to know what the minimum temp below boiling, would be...

Yeah this bit I'm not sure about as well. I would say I've heard 50% of the time people saying don't squeeze, and the other 50 saying squeezing is fine. From trial and error, two batches came out fine, and this is the first one that's off. But I can't narrow it down specifically to the...