Jim's Beer Kit

Cheers, thanks for the heads up!

Will do that!

Cheers!

I tried using duct tape before to attach fishing line to the hop holder to lid, which I kind of want to avoid doing again, as it didn't seem to like the cold/damp condition.

Has anyone seen a corny keg lid with hook on the inside recently in the UK?

(To attach a stainless pipe thing to put hops etc. in)

I bought one from fleabay, but the seller just messaged me to say they don't have ones with the hook on.

Oooh cool!

We've got a damson tree, but most of the damsons have gone into gin. I wanted to pick more which are all very high up
and bought https://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Prod ... ry-Picker/ and lashed to a rod, but that
didn't work too well heh.

I ended up getting some oak cubes from - https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/oak-whiskey-barrel-chunks-500g Just wondering if anyone has used those particular ones, and has advice re. how much to use and for roughly how long? I have a stainless mesh to put the cubes in and just ordered a lid wit...

Out of interest, are you going to make a 100% smoked malt, rauchbier?

I really want to try making one some time, as I love Schlenkerla.

Yeah, I got a digital one, Atago PAL-1 - https://www.atago.net/product/?l=en&f=p ... p#ABS42888 from fleabay

I just calibrate it before using with distilled water

Regarding automatic stop valve:

I'm wondering if you could maybe use a load cell, to weigh the bottle, so if it's just below 500ml it cuts off.

Or you could maybe use 2 electrodes that normally measure infinite resistance, but which drops dramatically when beer is present.

Ooh that's really cool.

I was wondering how it knows when to stop filling, but I presume you hold the button as long as you want to fill it for?

Thanks! Just noticed your green ammeter / voltmeter displays, where did you get those from out of interest?

Wow that panel is very impressive! When you say speed control, is that done through a phase angle controller out of interest? Edit: just thought phase angle only makes sense for AC pumps. It looks like lots of your connections are spade based, what crimper do you use out of interest? I need to get o...

I'm wondering, are you applying corrections to the brix from the refractometer during fermentation? It seems as well as applying a wort correction factor, you need to use a formulae that takes into account the alcohol such as that of Petr Novotný. There's apparently an English article in Zymurgy on ...

Thanks Kev, the comparison on that website is very helpful!

Yeah I need a decent drill anyway. That's interesting to know with respect to Makita. I was looking at their 18V ones too, there's quite a number to choose from. "Stainless needn't be bad at all really, unless it is pre-hardened." - What's that mean out of interest, is that independent of the grade ...

Thanks a lot everyone! PeeBee - I'll bear that in mind for more complex jobs, but I should be able to do this one. Kev888 - "Don't attempt either unless you have a drill that will turn quite slowly" That's good advice, I hadn't thought of that. I'm pretty sure it's high time I got a decent drill, we...