Jim's Beer Kit

I used a piece of flooring laminate for a bit of rigidness, remember the shank is only to hold it in place and stop it spinning. No need to torque it up.

When I stated a Polypropylene under bed storage box what I meant was something like this but after reading some of the points and some thought of the time I faff about and get a box, element and tap, for the same rough cost I am just going to get one of these to save issues and sit it on a set of st...

The problem with a Grainfather and all one vessel systems is they are really two vessel systems if you sparge, at the moment I heat my sparge water in the Grainfather and transfer it to my bottling bucket and keep it in the brew fridge till its needed. To cut out this added time I was thinking of ma...

Not exactly what your looking for, but our leader's post might inspire you.

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I am a Grainfather owner and I love it, it allowed me to go from kits to all grain in one package as the chiller is included. However I would be lying if I said I wouldn't swap it for a Braumeister as they are better, but they cost more so they should be. Whatever you buy you won't regret, I have ye...

Maple syrup?

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Some info on brewing with spices here.

At the moment all three are the same pressure so I just open the secondary valves fully and then set it on the primary. Once I start setting for different pressures I have a gauge with a drain off valve to set them.

The third keg is a 12ltr short model which sits under the regulator. The drip tray as with the wood are attached by short but squat stainless self tapping screws. I don't intend the drip tray too see much weight.

Don't know your budget but I feel the Grainfather is a great piece of kit for an AG starter or the Braumeister which I have yet to hear a bad word about. I did post this earlier in the year. For the record I have pre ordered a Grainfather and I am looking forward to starting on AG (Been doing kits f...

D4nny74 wrote:Hi All

After putting a Kolsch on today , I got 86.5 % mash efficiency and 79.5 total efficiency, So back to being happy

So what did you do different? Was it the 90 min mash??

You could buy one of these and one of these and connect it up leak free with some 3/8 line.

Posted this in another thread about how I connected the co2 reg to my cornies disconnect.

My efficiency for this one was 87% measured, are you mashing out? I mash for 90mins, 80mins at the 64-69 range (depends on the recipe) then raise to 74c for the last 10 mins. The sparge water temp is close to 74c as well.

What is it your doing that you think is wrong? I just fill my bottling bucket with 80c water and keep it in my brew fridge till I need it (it normally drops to 70 oddish). I then, depending on how much sparge water I have, jug it or hold the bucket and crack the tap to steadily add the water into th...

As John Guest fitting don't seal on stainless steel pipe/fittings I used these to connect my beer line to the shanks as you can see in this thread