Can someone please persuade me to buy this?

[UpTheToon]

Ordered one, I was rude to say no lol

Nice.

Are you planning on putting it in a fridge or handle heat/cooling some other way?

[Coffeeuk]

Ordered one, I was rude to say no lol

Nice.

Are you planning on putting it in a fridge or handle heat/cooling some other way?

I've already got a larder fridge with tube heater and STC controller.

I'll post plenty of pics once setup.

[chris.laws.54943]

There is now a cheaper option by the way: >these< on pre-order

Now THAT I can do business with!

[beer today]

conicals look great. I would be too tempted to be lifting the lid off all the time.
I only ever loosely fit my lid on my fermenting bucket, never had any probs, but I am sure I will be measuring my fridge up, just to see if one of those bad boys will fit.

[Ditch]

Can someone convince me to spend £320 on it-please, please, please!

F**king Easy, Guy! In fact, I'd imagine I'm about to waste my time here. Because, ye've obviously just gone ahead and Got that Bad Boy ....?! Yeah?

I wandered in here, randomly. God knows what then drew me to this thread. But, I clicked ye link. And I'm like: " Oh My God!!!!! Jesus F**king Christ!!! " And I'm not even consciously aware of that the F**k I'm looking at! I just know I have my hand over my mouth and my eyes are bulging!

You own shit like that? You become GOD! Just think of the f**king great smile you'll be going to sleep with, on ye face! Giggling as ye roll over. Barely able to contain the happiness and contentment that possessing such a thing of such exquisite beauty will bring to ye.

Imagine being able to walk in there. Gaze upon her. Smug as Don Draper. Nod and think; " Guy ....? You Legend!!! "



Alternately, of course? Ye can just squander the money elsewhere. Let it be leached away, piecemeal. Carry on living a grayer life. Resentful of the gnawing feeling that Guy is a dull boy .....


F**k it, Guy; It's stunning. You want it? F**king Have It!

[Coffeeuk]

Mine arrived yesterday. First impressions were how small it looked, but it fits perfectly into my fridge. The stc-100 probe fits into the thermowell perfectly too. I'll set it up properly and get my brew in it tomorrow

It's different to the reviews on the web. The thermowell is now removable and the ball valves are welded to the tri clamp fitting instead of having to screw them on.

I'm very pleased I got it

[IPA]

There is now a cheaper option by the way: >these< on pre-order

It's a bit more expensive when you add this imo a very necessary extra.
https://www.brouwland.com/en/our-produc ... HcCHZVMv5o

[IPA]

Seymour wrote

You put your sanitized container under the valve and all the first-runnings are pure yeast for your next brew

and the trub?

[Aleman]

Seymour wrote

You put your sanitized container under the valve and all the first-runnings are pure yeast for your next brew

and the trub?

You've already dropped that out a couple of days before

What I actually do is transfer to the conical pretty quickly and in the summer the temperature of the wort can be about 25-30C in the FV . . . I then turn the chiller on, and chill to 10C. This cause precipitation of a huge amount of cold break, plus all the hot break that got transferred. Then I drop about 1-2 Litres of break and wort, before warming the wort back up to pitching temp and finally pitching the yeast.

That is one of the great things about these conicals, you don't have to pitch as soon as the wort comes out of the kettle, you can do it 12 or 24 hours later as long as you take extra care with sanitising everything . . . and with a stainless conical that is really easy to do.

[Kev888]

+1. I too dump the crud once it has settled (though sadly my chiller is fairly wussy, so I try to transfer as close to pitching temperature as possible).

I also typically discard the first/bottom layer of yeast when later harvesting - I read that this removes less healthy cells (that died and sank prematurely) from the harvest - but I don't actually know if thats true.

Even if you're not harvesting the yeast I would advise dumping them at about the time people who use secondary fermenters would transfer. Aside from avoiding any issues from autolysis, if left for a long time flocculant yeast strains can set quite firmly and make a plug at the bottom. At least they can in mine, which only has a 1" dump valve.

Cheers
Kev

[Coffeeuk]

So how many days into fermentation would people suggest dumping the yeast ? My plan is to dump it into a litre kilner jar and store in the fridge until the next brew is ready. Then make a real wort starter and repitch.

[50quidsoundboy]

So how many days into fermentation would people suggest dumping the yeast ? My plan is to dump it into a litre kilner jar and store in the fridge until the next brew is ready. Then make a real wort starter and repitch.

don't go by days, go by gravity measurements. my current beer is one point away from the planned FG, so i've been dumping yeast today, and i'll do it probably daily until it's time to rack off.

[Coffeeuk]

So how many days into fermentation would people suggest dumping the yeast ? My plan is to dump it into a litre kilner jar and store in the fridge until the next brew is ready. Then make a real wort starter and repitch.

don't go by days, go by gravity measurements. my current beer is one point away from the planned FG, so i've been dumping yeast today, and i'll do it probably daily until it's time to rack off.

OK I'll do that

Cheers

[far9410]

Wow!

[guypettigrew]

Mine arrived yesterday. First impressions were how small it looked, but it fits perfectly into my fridge. The stc-100 probe fits into the thermowell perfectly too. I'll set it up properly and get my brew in it tomorrow

It's different to the reviews on the web. The thermowell is now removable and the ball valves are welded to the tri clamp fitting instead of having to screw them on.

Do these changes make it better, do you think?

And yes, I'm definitely going to buy one!

Guy