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- Sun Mar 22, 2020 1:16 pm
- Forum: Fermentation
- Topic: Off grid fermentation temperature control?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6039
Re: Off grid fermentation temperature control?
Thanks all, some great ideas but in these uncertain times I've decided to put these plans on hold and not spending any money unnecessarily. So i'll brew with a lager yeast soon and see how that goes.
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: Fermentation
- Topic: Off grid fermentation temperature control?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6039
Off grid fermentation temperature control?
I separated from my wife last year and have moved in with a new partner but alas the house is small and there isn't the space indoors to ferment. Weather permitting I can brew outside but fermentation would have to take place in a metal shed away from the house without a power supply and running pow...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:11 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: First stuck ferment.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1970
Re: First stuck ferment.
A stir and upping the temperature has done the trick when I have ha a stuck ferment. And if I don't like where something has finished I generally chuck in some harvested belgian yeast which chews it down to 1.008 almost without fail,
- Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:21 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Potential cheap temperature controller?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4516
Re: Potential cheap temperature controller?
It had its first brewday usage today. I set it to come on at 6:45 and bring the water to 78.5°C at 7:30 when I got up the mash water was at strike. It reads around half a degree high and over shoots due to a little lag in registering the increased temperature from heating. I checked the temperature ...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 3:35 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Potential cheap temperature controller?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4516
Re: Potential cheap temperature controller?
The probe was about level with it.
Very open to suggestions, my assumption is because the lag is there in all temperature changes, such as adjusting from room temperature to cold water. The thermopen and another thermometer are much quicker. I wonder if a different NTC probe would be faster?
Very open to suggestions, my assumption is because the lag is there in all temperature changes, such as adjusting from room temperature to cold water. The thermopen and another thermometer are much quicker. I wonder if a different NTC probe would be faster?
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 3:12 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Potential cheap temperature controller?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4516
Re: Potential cheap temperature controller?
I tied it to a spoon as the curly wire was trying to lift itself out of the water. It was not awfully close to the element but its at the bottom of the HLT, it is the lag in registering which allows the over shooting as while its still registering the change its still heating, its not too bad though.
- Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:31 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Potential cheap temperature controller?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4516
Re: Potential cheap temperature controller?
Well it appears to work, in a fashion. The initially I thought it would fit a patress box but it won't, instead I fitted it into a 95mm X 95mm junction box by drilling a circle out of the lid and securing in place with screws. in the end it looks like this https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TpfKMBwT...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:22 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Potential cheap temperature controller?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4516
Re: Potential cheap temperature controller?
FWIW I've found it (the one from the OP) a few quid cheaper and ordered one. Will see how it works, to control my HLT, if at all.
- Tue Mar 04, 2014 1:10 pm
- Forum: Brewing Liquor
- Topic: Salifert Kit, no change in colour
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5081
Re: Salifert Kit, no change in colour
The kit goes up to 285ppm by the looks of it so I would get some distilled water and mix it 50:50 with your tap water, re-test and double your result.
- Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:13 pm
- Forum: Yeast
- Topic: Brewlab Somerset 1?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2392
Re: Brewlab Somerset 1?
Any update on how this beer turned out, as being from Somerset I fancy trying this yeast.
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:19 pm
- Forum: Dispensing
- Topic: Sparkler thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2106
Re: Sparkler thread
yep eblag seemed the easiest
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:12 pm
- Forum: Dispensing
- Topic: Sparkler thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2106
Re: Sparkler thread
Ordered 6 more mwahahaha
My dad, a Yorkshireman, would have been proud rest his soul.
Looking forward to brewing a stout and having a creamy head on it.
My dad, a Yorkshireman, would have been proud rest his soul.
Looking forward to brewing a stout and having a creamy head on it.
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:52 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Vance Miller
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1189
Re: Vance Miller
Mods, might it be a good idea to delete the whole thread rather than just the OP (that I reported) which had the spam link in it?
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:37 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Vance Miller
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1189
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:47 pm
- Forum: Brewing Liquor
- Topic: RO Water - zero alkalinity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1656
Re: RO Water - zero alkalinity
RO water is typically >95% pure. The membrane that filters the water will only let some of the very smallest particles through so I would have been surprised if it hadn't had 0 Alkalinity.