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Had a couple of pints in the Hepworth Brewery tap the other week. Didn't seem overly bitter or unbalanced. Very good brewery tour of Hepworths on the get er brewed youtube. Head brewer used to be at the sadly long closed King and Barnes brewery.

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That's interesting about the gyro rather than acceleration.

@robumba You are right the beer will " carbonate " with the beer gas at the correct pressure and temp. Post ferment there will be dissolved CO2 in the beer depending on the temp Completely flat stout served with beer gas straight off will taste a little flat, but is drinkable.

@ctfoust You'll be fine, you have a big vessel and a sensible batch size. There's an efficiency hit bút just parti gyle a free beer. Big beers are a challenge though. Chaptalise is useful for a stout but I wouldn't use it for a barley wine.

Wouldn't suggest ice directly either.

Sorry to hear about the thumb, hope they haven't stitched it up too tight. Keep the hand injury elevated at rest, I suggest with pint glass in it.

I used the rubber fittings that go in the lids of fermenters that make the bubbler / airlock " airtight", used a little bit of silicone oil on the inside of each one to help the tubes slide.

Using my Guten 70 which is a similar vol AIO. Last barley wine was batch 23 litres, BHE 68%, OG 1.127 and FG 1.028 Grain bill total 14.3 kg, WLP 099 big pitch starter, oxygenated, roused, nutrients, no reiterated mash, 27 mash water and 9 litre sparge. Made a 20 litre 1.044 partigyle best...

No way I know of to dry. I think the pubs pull through fresh water prior to reattach to flush out sanitiser remnants. Then discard first half pint.

I think the sparkler should be at the bottom of the glass as you start to pour/ pull. Let this move up the glass as it fills. There's a reason for the long neck and sparkler, southern taps have short spout and no or a loose sparkler. Still a good looking pint though.

If you fix the tube with inner tube to ball lock the line cleaning is easy using the kegland https://www.kegland.com.au/products/red-ball-lock-plastic-carbonation-cap-x-6-35mm-duotight?_pos=2&_psq=carbonat&_ss=e&_v=1.0 I just put this in a container of water warm initially when cleaning the...

You definitely will find that biggest gauge line from your corny is better. 1/4 would be tedious. Vinyl might be crap but better than silicone. It's not a good idea to have your engine connected to the corny and a full cylinder of beer for ages between pulls. It will stale in the engine...

I assume then that suspended particles affect hydrometer same as my refractometer, because when I cross check with hydrometer reading is the same?

@hotbeer No I'm just measuring the wort sample, post mash, post sparge, post boil and after filling fermenter. No late sugar additions. Mixing wine kits with water is a challenge to get an effective mix. But I'm seeing this issue with all grain brews.