Jim's Beer Kit

LeeH wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:27 pm

I’m confused how trunky got involved in this scandal...

When people leave, most just leave. A few ask a moderator to delete their content.

AFAIK, he was the only other member to remove his content by replacing each post with a single character (a smiley). That was around 700 posts!

Are you saying hedgerow pete and trunky are the same person? Nope, Trunky's Bristol-based and Hedgerow Pete came and collected my boiler last week. Just a spooky coincidence. :-k EDIT: Are you all freaked out yet? Forgot to mention, the boiler hedgerow pete collected ... I bought from trunky. Are y...

What went down? Did somebody upset him? Sorry folks, it must be me. I think I'm the only person to have met hedgerow pete and trunky in person, so I must have jinxed something. Or ... a few weeks ago I was having trouble with Nationwide so looked at Twitter and someone was complaining that the app ...

Binkie Huckaback wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:23 pm

I don't want to leave it running 24/7

Is that for safety or economy? Fridges expect to maintain about 4C 24/7 and use far less energy to maintain 12C.

Just "wiggled on" about 5mm or more should do it, doesn't need any sort of clamp.

A tenner gets you a hot water cylinder jacket with pieces you can wrap around/over/under any suitable plastic storage container you have spare. I use one with my plastic boiler when mashing during BIAB.

Thats the float that I prefer. You will also need to replace the beer out dip tube with a gas in tube (ebay or Amazon) and connect it with 60 cm of 6.5mm id silicon hose. Best not to shorten the long dip tube because they are almost impossible to replace. That's exactly what I did, all worked perfe...

I run a fully unwound 13 amp extension reel from our kitchen cooker circuit to supplement the power from a socket in the car port where I brew.

For example Wilko's do a 13 amp cable (but their reels are only 10 amp, may be enough).

Re order some new seals. All the kegs I bought cheap in 2015 were "refurbished" but didn't look like they had new seals. They would all seal by emptying a kettle of boiling water in and closing (I could then press down on the outlet covered by a cloth to get hot water spurting through the dip tube)...

If on a budget but your kit needs replacing I suggest BIAB with a plastic bucket or a secondhand mango chutney barrel as a boiler. I still have my single pot BIAB system from 2008. 60 ltr plastic bucket like this one , couple of elements from supermarket 2kW budget kettles and a net curtain to hold ...

What is the maximum output load of your Inkbird. What is the power of the Peco heating element you are controlling?

I've done quite a few no-chills, pitching the yeast into them when cooled. Not much head space so for an airlock I take a tube from the tap into a flask of water. All sits in my fermenting fridge set to about 18C.

I use RO water from a filter for brewing. The waste water drains into a couple of 80 ltr plastic storage containers. When I use that cool water through my I/C I have a 25 ltr fermenting bucket sitting higher than my boiler, which I keep topped up with a 5 ltr jug. Gravity isn't quite enough so I hav...

On ebay, I click on the item page "share by email" icon (top right) then select "other email" and it gives me a nice concise link to put in my post

https://ebay.us/hV5ioK

You can make a neat link manually in preview mode as well if your remember the format: here's the text