Bristol Brewers

I will be there, is there a way to recognise other Bristol Brewers?

Tap Room opening party tomorrow from 6pm - 12 at the new Moor Beer premises - you get two beer tokens and a Bahn Mi for 6 quid.
Anyone going?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moor-bee ... 5303895363

Buffalo 40 L plus modded ball valve tap - nice stainless steel kettle for just over a hundred quid all-in

Action shot https://twitter.com/ipb/status/56014286 ... 24/photo/1

Thanks to those who offered advice for this

If i understand you correctly you made a starter, but only let it ferment for 20 minutes? That will not have achieved anything I did, directions suggested pitching straight to the wort, I thought a 20 minute start in a little wort followed by mixing into wort would have been better. Might try the s...

Yep - just found a decent aquarium heater for a tenner on Amazon. Ideally i'd like to submerge in the fermenter directly rather than have an enormous bucket of water but I'll trust your advice and won't risk my beer.

Has anyone used a submersible immersion heater like the one here http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/aca ... eater.html
They are roughly the same price as the brew belt but have a thermostatic control so seem many times more useful.

Cheers,

Iain

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...they often won't give you a rolling boil This is a problem I considered but there seem to be several reviews on Amazon of homebrewers who seem to say it maintains a rolling boil quite nicely, so hopefully it will work! If not, with the price I paid, I shouldn't make much of a loss if Ebay it. Ke...

Thanks for the heads up on those boilers - i'd much prefer stainless steel to plastic so will definitely have a look at those. What about fitting a hop strainer to that bufallo, is it a standard tap? I think i won't go for recirculation, i don't want to add a pump into my setup at the moment and I t...

I think I'll go for the basic non-pid boiler and continue to mash in my cool box rather than trying to do it all in one vessel. I'll be able to do full volume mash and boil at last and I'll invest in coil chiller too. Any suggetsions on temperature settings for the boil ? Roll on payday so I can upd...