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(repost from the all-grain section) I just received the results from a Ward Labs water report for my tap water and am sharing them for anyone out north in Kansas City. I live by the airport, Zona Rosa, etc... Green Hills and MO-152. I've seen the KCMO water water quality report for 2012 and...

I just received the results from a Ward Labs water report for my tap water and am sharing them for anyone out north in Kansas City. I live by the airport, Zona Rosa, etc... Green Hills and MO-152. I've seen the KCMO water water quality report for 2012 and the data from this Ward Labs report is...

After four AG batches, I was still having this problem. My problem was not that I had a stuck sparge, but more so that I'd open the valve and sparge wouldn't start. I tried a number of things to resolve this issue: - milling my own grain with a known-good crush width (VISA!) - milling the...

So, Lot's of issues here. Can anyone point me to what I DID WRONG? I did an all grain batch a week or two back.. no problems. At all. Today. I did an all grain batch, Northern Brewer 1800 Historic IPA. Grains milled. I had all sorts of issues with the sparge. The mash was fine. I hit 151F with...

Anyone have any more information on this? I'm new to the KC area and have been brewing for a bit more than a year with a good dozen batches under my belt. I'm just starting into AG and would prefer to stop buying gallons of spring water at HyVee. RO is one of the ways I was thinking of going...

I've had this fridge for about six months or so. It's been running most of the time and has held a steady temp. I added the Love temp controller and ran two beer lines through the top to a tower. I normally have two 5gal corneys with a 5lbs CO2 tank. I designed a bar with a space for this...

OK. I found my own answer... About page 54, there's a bit about someone who accidentally cut the cap tube, which seems to be required only if you're using the OEM thermostat. So, I sucked it up and cut the cap tube. The compressor is still running... Whew... I decided to test the Love...

I've had this fridge for about five months and have been using the OEM controls to maintain temp. I ordered a Love TS-2 a while back and it has since been gathering dust in the box. I finally hooked it up today, using instructions from Schnitzengiggle and ClaudiusB. I have everything hooked...

With this sort of fridge, you can not build it in directly. That is assuming when you say "build it in" you mean placing the walls of the cabinet in direct contact with the side walls of fridge. The heat exchanger is in the side walls and that is what requires you to have some air space between...

The largest issue when building it into a structure is that you need to ensure that there is reasonable airflow over the heat sinks. In the case of this fridge, I'm thinking that means the sides, the back and the compressor. In my build, I have a large airspace over the fridge that I need to...

I built my fridge into a cabinet/bar structure. The fridge is about 21" wide and I left about 3/4" on each side. The fridge dumps heat on the side panels so it's important to have airflow over these side panels. I built a kickboard into the cabinet and cut a hole in the base. I mounted a 4"...

I built mine. :-) I considered three options for running the tap lines. First, as in my pictures above, everyone seemed to be successful going through the top (after digging through the styro to find the coolant lines). The second I considered was going through the hump bottom. I didn't...

I just converted this fridge and it was easy thanks to all the great info in this (unbelievably enormous) thread. I included two pics to show that I can get a 5lb co2 tank in the back on the hump but I need to lean the co2 gauges over rather than leaning the tank over. (Does this cause issues...

I like that idea: keg condition and carbonate with bottling sugar then connect to co2 at room temp to finish the carb. My plan is to keg condition and carbonate for four weeks. Can I do both at the same time or will that lead to issues? I'm thinking 3-4 weeks between primary and secondary...

So, I'm doing 5 gallon batches and putting 1.5 to 2 gallons into bottles with the remainder going into the keg. I can do the math: if I'm using 5oz of sugar for 5 gals of beer, use 3oz of sugar for 3 gals of beer. Ok, that's fine for a 3 gal corney... The question is more about the extra...