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Will try and do that today.

I have a rusty old Westinghouse Freezermate 381 litre (379 food compartment)

Height 161
Width 68
Depth65

There is no freezer compartment so I don't know why it is called a freezermate.

Door needs to be kept shut with a bungee cord but new seals will fix that.

Pick up only in Burpengary Qld. I ...

Guys I am going to try a variation on this - thanks for the great ideas. But this is my first departure from the standard kit and kilo routine. Can you let me know if these recipes are ok?

Morgans Can
1kg dex
500g light dried malt
The following boiled up and added to the above with the dregs put in ...

i am looking to make a san miguel clone too. How did yours turn out Chewie?

Here I was feeling guilty! :oops: Everything I had read in my homebrew book said to leave the brew no longer than a couple of days after fermentation had finished or infection may set in.

But I don't have time to bottle during the week and so I often leave the brew 2-3 weeks from pitching the yeast ...

I am pretty new to brewing so I am trying to follow this brewing book I have got. It recommended leaving the hydrometer in the fermenter so that I wouldn't have to open the lid or pour a sample to take a reading.

As for my worry about the sinking gladwrap, a second sheet of wrap fixed things up. I ...

I have just put another layer of gladwrap over the top. If there is a leak that should stop it. Not much else I can really do but wait the week out and check the hydro reading then.

I reckon temps hit 24-25 degrees tops during the day and 21-22 at night. My hydro is in the fermenter and I can't see it properly to get a good reading. Just below the green anyway.

3 days is bloody quick!

On Monday I put down a brew.

Sparkling Ale
Morgans Aust. Draught
500grams dried malt
Pride of Ringwood
LloydsLager booster

Problem is that the glad wrap I put over it, and sealed with a O'ring, is no longer puffed up.

Do I reapply yeast? Should I recover with glad wrap in case the seal was ...

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I recently bought another plastic fermenter and my neighbour tells me that I should keep the new one for my cider brews and the old for beer. He says that my cider will have a beer taste to it if I use the old fermenter because 'while you can clean and sterilise a fermenter one can never ...