Aside from our much needed breakmaker, I spent my amazon voucher on brewing stuff!

I ordered the following

    Books: 

  • Principles of Brewing Science: A Study of Serious Brewing: A Study of Serious Brewing Issues by Dr. George J. Fix

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    Bottling Equipment:

  • Twin Level Bottle Capper
  • 150 Crown Caps
  • Bottling tree to hold 80 bottles

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    Boiler Equipment:

  • 2x 15mm Compression Ball Valves
  • 2x 15mm Compression Tank Connectors
  • A pack of elbows for connecting everything up

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    Fermentation Cabinet:

  • An STC-1000 temperature controller

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    Brewing Supplies:

  • A vial of white labs WLP-300 -Hefeweizen Ale Yeast

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I also managed to pick up a freezer from Freecycle to use as the fermentation cabinet. It seems like there may be an issue with it though… The freezer was said to have drawers which come out… it does, but it also has shelves which have the coolant pipes running through them. This means that the shelves do NOT come out, and my keg(s) will not fit into the freezer.

I may have a solution to this however. If I can use the new freezer for food then I can pull the drawers from the old freezer and use that for fermenting. I just need to get a fermenter heater to wrap around the vessel that is controlled by the STC-1000. It’s not a very elegant solution, but until I find a fridge to replace the new freezer, it will have to do.