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Fermentation stopped early

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WTB - Immersion Chiller or Copper Tube

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Breweries
Micro Brewery at Massey University

Finings
Clarifiers & Finings Article
Common Wine and Beer Finings
Finings [Wikipedia]
Isinglass [Wikipedia]

Hops
Freezing Hops
Hop flavour wheel - Zainasheff and Palmer [realbeer.co.nz]

Hydrometers
Appendix A - Using Hydrometers [Palmer, John. How to Brew]

Priming
Priming Solutions [Palmer, John. How to Brew]

Yeast
Preparing Yeast and Yeast Starters [Palmer, John. How to Brew]

Chris's Blog

Wort Chiller

Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:30pm 0 Comments

Bought a 15m length of 1/4" copper pipe from TradeMe, $71 inc postage:

 

 

Filled it with water and stuck it the freezer...

Tip: to fill the pipe, stick one end underwater in the sink and suck the water through. Learnt this after getting quite a lot of water on myself and the floor.

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Kettle Stand

Posted on June 18, 2011 at 4:26pm 4 Comments

Just a quick one to show you my new (well actually secondhand off Trade Me - $111) 60L kettle and the new deluxe kettle stand I built to go with it ($0).

 

The original stool.

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Plans - Kettle

Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:00pm 12 Comments

Here is a rough idea of the first stage of my brewery - the kettle. Apologies, my drawing skills didn't develop much after the age of five.

There is a copper immersion chiller up top (bought 12m of copper tube for this for $69 from Trade Me) which goes into a 60L stainless cook pot I bought from Trade Me for $111. 

 

Next is a weldless bi-metal…

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Introduction

Posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:00pm 3 Comments

I had a break from brewing for a couple of years and am just starting up again. So far I have a bitter bottled, plus a golden ale and a lager bubbling away. I just brew from extract at the moment, no kettle involved, although I do boil hops and add to the wort. 

 

I've been brewing like this for about 7 or 8 years now and have had some great results, with one or two mishaps along the way. But now I'm…

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