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[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

finished brewing my Bastard Dubbel today. brew day went alot better than last time, and I have finally got my boil off rate dialed in. I boil off exactly 5L per hour.

I still need to build my SCR but hopefully I can tame the excessive boil and lower the rate of boil off.. not that I mind at the moment it should help with efficiency.

Tried fitting the SCR into my PID Controller but there is zero space left. I will have to build a new simple unit that can house it.

[Snyper564 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snyper564]

Dont forget the relay for the controller if not in already

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

finished brewing my Bastard Dubbel today. brew day went alot better than last time, and I have finally got my boil off rate dialed in. I boil off exactly 5L per hour.

I still need to build my SCR but hopefully I can tame the excessive boil and lower the rate of boil off.. not that I mind at the moment it should help with efficiency.

Tried fitting the SCR into my PID Controller but there is zero space left. I will have to build a new simple unit that can house it.

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[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

and I have finally got my boil off rate dialed in. I boil off exactly 5L per hour.

This will change, and keep that in mind. Different temperatures and humidity (keeping elevation the same) makes a difference in this.

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Seeing that it is March - I'm busy brewing a Marzen now.. Started late today .. round 1-isch.. into the boil now..

EDIT: I wanted to reuse my w34/70 I had stashed in the fridge but when I took it out it had white scum stuff on top and smelled metallic - so I ditched it and used the S23 I used for the Castle Lite brew.. ag ja. Should be similar but not as clean tasting as the w34/70

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

Hopefully (finally) brewing my Irish Red tomorrow. I absolutely can't wait. I've decided to swap out my roasted malts for CaraAroma as well. It's a deep red malt and hits those malty notes you want in the IRA.

[AlexBrew Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AlexBrew]

Hopefully (finally) brewing my Irish Red tomorrow. I absolutely can't wait. I've decided to swap out my roasted malts for CaraAroma as well. It's a deep red malt and hits those malty notes you want in the IRA.

This one also on my to-do list..

[PaBz0r Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PaBz0r]

Hopefully (finally) brewing my Irish Red tomorrow. I absolutely can't wait. I've decided to swap out my roasted malts for CaraAroma as well. It's a deep red malt and hits those malty notes you want in the IRA.

I am unsure what to use with mine. I have some CaraRed, CaraMunich II, CaraAamber, Roasted Barley and Melanoidin.

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

I love a malty IRA (I love malty beers in general), so I'd go with CaraRed and Melanoidin, TBH.

EDIT: On that note, I have some CaraHell incoming, so maybe that'll work as well. Notes on CaraHell looks like sweet, malty and light caramel while improving body, mouthfeel and foam. Maybe I'll add some of that as well. I think this is going to be a great beer, although recipe changes every time I think about brewing it.

[JIGSAW Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JIGSAW]

I always have some CaraHell on hand ... Like to add it to my Blondes and Pales

[Toxxyc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Toxxyc]

I think I'd like to do a Vienna with CaraHell sometime. Think it'll highlight my favourite parts in a beer, as I've found 100% Vienna a bit "bready" for my taste at some times. As such I've taken to doing a 50/50 Vienna/Pale malt split, but pale malt contributes a kind of dry astringency in all the beers I made where I aim for a higher FG in the end. I don't know why.

[hopingmadinZam Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close hopingmadinZam]

This weekend I'm thinking of trying a Passion fruit infused pale ale. I figured why not since passion fruit are back in season and my malts will finally arrive this afternoon after completing 3,663km journey to reach me. Yup 3,600km, y'all better appreciate your LHBS!

[Jitters Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jitters]

thats crazy must have cost a packet to get it all the way up there.

[hopingmadinZam Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close hopingmadinZam]

thats crazy must have cost a packet to get it all the way up there.

Not at bad as you might think. I got 4x 25kg malt sacks but let's calculate of one. a 25kg sack CPT - JHB is around R100 ish I think , JHB - LSK 17% of total cost ~ R59.5. LSK - Mfuwe ~ K50 (R40) so I got a europmalt 25kg Pale for R 350 ish. total cost is R550. so R22 a kg.. lighter stuff is cheaper mostly due to the SA courier price.

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