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• Posted in thread: HomeBrewTalk 2013 Big Giveaway! on 02-24-2013 at 03:56 AM
  I'm in!

• Posted in thread: Homemade Carb Caps (with pics) on 12-20-2011 at 04:56 PM
  Personally I would have gotten a clip-on air chuck, that way you could carbonate by doing the
  old "set it and forget it".Excellent point, Canuck. And I was just chatting with a friend that
  I AM going ...

• Posted in thread: Homemade Carb Caps (with pics) on 12-20-2011 at 04:28 PM
  SUMMARYHere's the parts list with prices:41142notes:- Unless you're comfortable using pliers on
  the valve stem (which I wasn't), it's almost impossible to get that sucker tight enough before
  first use...

• Posted in thread: Homemade Carb Caps (with pics) on 12-20-2011 at 04:27 PM
  With the regulator set at 15 psi (and the operator wearing safety glasses cuz I'm a wimp), I
  popped the bottle up to 15 lbs: I shook the sheet outta that puppy until the beer absorbed all
  that gas. N...

• Posted in thread: Homemade Carb Caps (with pics) on 12-20-2011 at 04:27 PM
  Next, I isolated just the parts which will be in contact with the beer or CO2. parts were
  cleaned w oxyclean free, and then sanitized in starsan. I sanitized the seltzer bottle w
  starsan, and put tog...

• Posted in thread: Homemade Carb Caps (with pics) on 12-20-2011 at 04:26 PM
  You've heard of these before, but I figured I would post my build w detailed pics, so it's
  crystal clear.So I stopped into Pep Boys and had a looksie around. They had the air chuck and
  barbs, but no c...

• Posted in thread: What to do with 3BBL Mash Tun? on 08-28-2011 at 07:06 PM
  Unless I missed a post, I came away wondering.......how was that much wort chilled?We used a
  therminator and recirc chilled the wort until it was in the mid 90's (hot hot day and the
  groundwater was 8...

• Posted in thread: What to do with 3BBL Mash Tun? on 08-28-2011 at 12:27 PM
  bobby_m just posted a video of our brewday and when we racked the beer to the barrel.[ame]
  here she sits in my basement (currently surviving Hurricane Irene).32516

• Posted in thread: Predicting Mash pH with EZ Calculator by Diluting Strike H2O with Lower pH H2O on 08-25-2011 at 08:54 PM
  No, not at all. In the first example lets change oz to mL (the proportions are still the same
  but the calculations are much easier in metric). If we put 0.1 mol hydrochloric acid in 1 L of
  water we wo...

• Posted in thread: Predicting Mash pH with EZ Calculator by Diluting Strike H2O with Lower pH H2O on 08-25-2011 at 07:29 PM
  Here's a question that can help me get there.. does pH in water dilute in a linear fashion?Ex:
  (true or false)100 oz of 7.0 pH + 12 oz of 1.0 pH = 112 oz of 6.35 pH-or-100 oz @ 7.0 pH + 100
  oz @ 5.0 p...