Recent content by dionito

I consider this change to be a rip-off. I have paid for both the physical and digital copies of the magazine and they are "stealing" access to the digital copies from me. Not happy at all.

There are many, many motives for the efficiency change other than the pump. But blame is free :tank:

It's so easy to talk bs from the outside, where you have nothing to lose and owe nothing to your investors, your family, etc. I'd love to see you having the same opportunity to sell and not doing it because of your love for all of us. Lets stop the crap!!

I do not see the point of all that. What I do is simply keep the valve open all the time. I treat the jar as part of the fermenter, so when I fill it, the valve at the bottom is open. Then I pitch the yeast and when the fermentation is done I close the valve and take the jar full of yeast and...

I have never lagered any of my lagers and all have won competitions, including a BOS in a 300+ beer competition in WA with a Helles and BOS in the Spanish National Competition too (90 beers or so). In both cases the beers had been kegged a few months earlier and kept cold, but without yeast...

I built my own: http://amzn.to/2aoE8YN http://www.ebay.com/itm/121951096591?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Add tubing and you're done. It works just fine for less than $60. Cheers!

Yeah, I was wondering about problems not getting the yeast to the jar, etc. The "gravity law" problem I was planning to fix as you suggest :-) Cheers!

Just ordered a 2" one of these. Such a great idea!! Thanks a lot! BTW, I'm thinking about attaching it after the 90º elbow. Do you see any problem with that, rather than attaching it straight out of the fermenter? Cheers!

I got one as a b-day present a month ago and I LOVE IT! Works great and no guess work. You need only 1/3 of the usual ammount you need with a hydrometer but works with fermented beer too, not like refractometers. BTW, it does not work for ABV in beer. Cheers!

I'm not sure it makes a big difference, probably some but not huge, but anyways love having a great glass colection :-) Cheers!

@Talgrath Yes, but it seems that overpitch in the homebrew scale is not an easy feud. You want to try to do it to get to do it. But that's only what I've read :-) Cheers!

Nice!!

@Clweed You're siphoning clean beer through the 3/8" racking arm, which is good enough. However, you want the trub out through the 3/4" ball valve, which is not enough in many cases. I got 1.5" butterfly valves because of this to replace the 3/4" ball valves.

@Clweed You're siphoning clean beer through the 3/8" racking arm, which is good enough. However, you want the trub out through the 3/4" ball valve, which is not enough in many cases. I got 1.5" butterfly valves because of this to replace the 3/4" ball valves.

One question: in mine the middle TC is 1", not 1.5". The connections are the same, but the opening is different. Has that changed in the new Chronicals and they're now all 1.5" TC?