Recent content by broadbill

I'd also buy a GHT cap for a little extra protection from the valve getting knocked and accidently turning on the water under your sink....

I'll share where I ended up and how I got there. Started out homebrewing in college, extract. Went to All-Grain fly-sparging with a bona-fide Zapap system from Charlie Papazian (still have that bucket that I drilled hundred of holes in; it hold kid's bath toys these days). Then to cooler...

I also believe your foam issue is line length and that it is hard to dial the foam out by adjusting psi because of the time it takes for the CO2 to come out of solution. Keep venting the keg and let the gas re-adjust and see how that works. Nobody says you need to use a CPU fan, you can buy...

if there is nothing magical about 5 gallons, you can scale that back to 4 gallons and probably boil with only one 120V circuit.

those freezers don't have compressor humps? Is the grey part at the bottom part of the freezer or an add-in by the brewery?

yep, exactly what I was thinking....cool! Thanks for sharing that.

I'm glad you resurrected it, because I was thinking of this very thing and remembered a thread about it a long time now. I have a very small chest freezer (5cf?) and fermenting 10 gallons (2 buckets) requires me to stack them in there so they are off-set to one another and also to take door off...

One other idea is to brew a smaller batch size....less water to get to mash temp. I do 4 gallon batches, I use a 1500 element, a reflectix insulated kettle and a recirculation pump and it takes maybe 30-40 minutes.

Email March Pump and they'll send you a few gratis, or at least they did for me a few years back.

Use on of these to add a second supply line to the line under your sink: https://www.plumbingsupply.com/quick-tee-adapter.html You will need a shutoff (hose bib, or ball value if you have a way to lock it in the closed position) for that second line, From the valve you would have anoteher...

Jeez, lighten up Francis.... Whaddya doing, collecting data on your honors thesis for Prepper school?

I don't think it has to be overly complicated...You can probably go with just pale malt or 2-row and flaked oats and be good...Add in the flaked wheat if you want to get fancy, and t Simple sugar if you want some more ABV

Thanks for this thread....My first BIAB I puta folding ladder over the kettle and hooked the rachet to that. My strainer/bag combo just barely cleared the rim of the pot. Now I think I'll hook up to the garage door track like alot of you are doing.

I don't see why not assuming you insulate and control humidity just like with any other structure.... However, asking a question like this here is like a asking a family doctor how to repair a prolapsed heart valve. Kind of out of the pay range of most hobbyists here!

You could do this, or you could add malt and hops and actually make wort to ferment into beer instead of a bunch of hot water! Just a thought... Just go with a SWAG of 1 gal/hr boil off rate...