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thanks Dr thats explained alot.
Change the brew for the day and all is well, will get another packet of pilsner yeast and start again. Next time i'll plan a little better. And concentrate more.

Yes i do have plenty of dry as back up. I will drain the liquid yeast. Can you explain to me though why putting in more ldme than i should have has had such an effect. Am i not just supplying the yeast with more food?

Normally warra that is excatly what I do but I want to use the yeast tomorrow and had some yeast washed and ready to split and wanted to use that. I have just put it in a starter but in my slightly dazed, not concentrating getting over gastro state I put a kg of ldme, not 100g in my 1litre starter ...

Its probably been in the fridge for 3 weeks if not a little longer.
So dr if I make up a 1 or 2 litre start now and then just pour the whole thing into the wort when i ready?
Cheers Rob

Guys I have been using wyeast for a few of my last brews and collecting the yeast ready to reuse. The last one I used was a pilsner. I harvested it and have washed it till the water became clear. I was about to split it into three containers and store it. However I would like to us it tomorrow in a ...

Hi guys, has been a while since I posted anything but I have still been brewing away hard. I have my keg convertion kettle and my lanturtun working well now and I have carried out 5 or 6 partials so far with fairly good results. The last being Charlie Papazain's Top drop pilsner, which this morning ...

Started it with a 2l 200g and its now in a 5l started bubbling its ass of. The guy at G&G said this strain of yeast often trie's to start fermenting on its own thats why the packet was swollen but the nutrient hadn't been popped. All is good, couple more days a crassh chill over night and i will be ...

Yes sorry for the typo it should be 250g. Thanks matr
will change.
Pom
Never dry hopped before, should I add it when I rack? or when I first put it into the fermenter? And how much ?
Cheers

I still have a 3kg can of ESB american plae ale to use up. Im just about to put a yeast starter of Wyeast american ale on to be ready for next wekend. By that time I will have built it up to 5l.
I have Pick Chinook as the bittering hop as I have not used it before and would like to use some Amarillo ...

Yeah, I normally start with a litre and finish with a 5l, I was going to use it anyway just wondered if anyone had had the same thing happen.
Cheers chad

Just went to the fridge to take out a packet of Wyeast American Pale Ale and found it to already be swollen. Its been in there for a month and a half but I have not activated it. It wasn't swollen when I bought it. Is it still ok to us?
There are two other packets of different Wyeast and they are ok ...

TL.
With the Bazoka T where did you get the mesh from. On YouTube I have seen a few people taking the inside out of flexable stainless tap connections and then just using the outer mesh that is left for the pick up in thier mash tun. Is this where you got the mesh from or can you buy it seperatly ...

Might sound like a idiot but I have broken 3 glass hydrometers in under 12 months what is a refractometer and how much do they cost?

Cheers for the input Mic.
The price of copper is a worry. But I have a few contacts in the plumbing industry hope I can get a good deal. Im about to go and get another beer keg from my mates pub and look at turning it into a hot liquor tank with a tap and a dial thermometer built in. Im also in the ...

Jueen down to see my mate at the local Reece plumbing and to a picture of the G&G weldless B/V, picked up the B/V and m/m fitting for $35. Have a silcon washer and 90 bend and barb on order for less than $15. Bit cheaper than G&G and no postage. Once I put these in will start on the pick up bar. TL ...

Thanks TL
Once I get the S/S ballvalve in I will probably make up up the easier of the two and maybe down the track look at making a T bazoka. Is that just normal copper solder on the copper elbow?
Im just about to order the S/S B/V from G&G, will take the keg to work and drill the hole on the big ...

Cheers Tl
Im looking to improve my mashtun, have looked at maybe getting a Rubbermaid cooler like yours, Have good supply of beer kegs thanks to my local publican, would it be fesable to make one from a keg and then as you said have a burner under it?
Or do you think its better to go an esky type ...

Cheers Tl
I have no intentions of boiling crays in my boil kettle once it is done.
I think I will go the G&G weldless then I can still take it apart and clean it if needed. You will have to enlighten me on the pickup tube or bazooka I thought I just needed to put the ball valve in tan then maybe a ...

Have cut my keg top out and bought a glass lid that fits the top perfect, now just have to decide if I should buy a none weld tap from G&G or to go the the reece and get the stuff I need and have my mate weld one on.
Any views? To weld or not?

Well my first Oktoberfest is bubbling away nicely. Had a few issues keeping the temp up in the mini mash. Hit the stike temp spot on at 66C, using 74C water. But after 15mins open it to give it a stir and check temp and it dropped to 60C. Added small amounts of boiling water but didn't want to water ...