Sign up with GoogleTis cool the fermenter goes up to 25 litres so as long as it does not exceed that. Now all I need is something to store it in that will keep the temp at around 18 degrees or less. My pantry is excellent in keeping it at 22 degrees which works like a charm on beerkits
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Yeah that's the expensive part cause you need to really buy a fridge thingy with a temp controller.
There are various other ways though like putting the fermenter in a bucket of water and swapping out ice bricks or using wet towels etc.
Awesome that will be perfect
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Then you'll need a reptile heating pad or something similar to attach to the heating circuit of the temp controller. You'll attach the freezer to the cooling circuit.
Jip, will get one at the local pet store, or maybe just use something like a 60 - 100 watt light bulb. So online, how someone put the lightbulb in a tin can, inside the freezer, and said it worked like a charm
Went to MAkro, and got myself a 36 litre pot for the stove, looked at the urn, but that baby uses about 3000 Watts, and that is just too much electricity. Think I'll start with a mini biab, as soon as I've set up the fridge. Until then I'll go through a couple of beer kits so pass the time. Bottling the lager this weekend, then its on to a pale ale and lastly a dark ale. By then I should have everything in place to start with biab
@Gothan if you have done one or 2 kits you can start doing partial mashes before going to BIAB as well.
You basically do a small BIAB mash with smaller amounts of grain (2kg or so) before adding the canned extract from a kit and then leave out the sugar or brew enhancer.
But BIAB is pretty straightforward and you should get 15-18l batches from a 36l pot with no issues you can even use 70% of your water in the pot and make a stronger original gravity then just add the rest of the water to your fermenter to get a bigger batch.
One thing BIAB has brought to homebrewing is that you can make good beer in many ways and dont need to have the best equipment to make tasty beer.
Most people also brew according to season so summer time you brew warmer fermenting beers and winter time colder ones just keep the temperature stable and avoid fluctuations.
You basically do a small BIAB mash with smaller amounts of grain (2kg or so) before adding the canned extract from a kit and then leave out the sugar or brew enhancer.
But BIAB is pretty straightforward and you should get 15-18l batches from a 36l pot with no issues you can even use 70% of your water in the pot and make a stronger original gravity then just add the rest of the water to your fermenter to get a bigger batch.
One thing BIAB has brought to homebrewing is that you can make good beer in many ways and dont need to have the best equipment to make tasty beer.
Most people also brew according to season so summer time you brew warmer fermenting beers and winter time colder ones just keep the temperature stable and avoid fluctuations.
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Jip, my next one is a black Rock ipa and then dry hopping it with Pacific gem hops
Jip going to take some time before I start with the all grain, first want to finish reading "how to brew", and wait for all the stuff to arrive and get the freezer set up. Tomorrow an electrician is coming to check the freezer (cause I have trouble making toast, don't want to burn the house down).
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So I'm on holiday in Durban, and I gave my dad some of my homebrew (which he enjoyed).
He, and some of his friends, want to give homebrewing a bash, but there are no shops in Durban. I never fully realised how spoiled we are in Cape Town, with 2 excellent shops in the southern suburbs.
So my question is, what do you Durban people do?
Order online? If so, what's shipping cost.
Also, does anyone do all-grain in Durban, and where do you get your stuff?
He, and some of his friends, want to give homebrewing a bash, but there are no shops in Durban. I never fully realised how spoiled we are in Cape Town, with 2 excellent shops in the southern suburbs.
So my question is, what do you Durban people do?
Order online? If so, what's shipping cost.
Also, does anyone do all-grain in Durban, and where do you get your stuff?
I cannot speak for Durban, but in PE, we don't have any shops either. Generally order from either Vincent or Ant, who do arrange deliveries. Also, we tend to buy our base grains in bulk, since shipping is a bugger if you order on a per batch basis.
Felt I needed to vent some frustration... I was in Brussels for a day on Monday, man those Belgian beers are incredible. So I decided to buy 12 beers, box them and bring them back to SA with me. Marked the box as fragile, and checked it in in the oversize counter. When I landed in Frankfurt for my connecting flight, the morons at the airport ignored the stickers and I stood at the carousel and saw a box of crushed Belgian beers come past. Gutted.
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Vincent from beerkeg and ant from Beerguevara?