Recent content by kitemanks

My 2 cents, and its not hard to make something close.... 2 row, Corn not rice, and pilsener yeast. The corn, and yeast are really big. The starter has to really be big and active too. If you under pitch the off flavor will make it taste like home brew.... proper airation, and yeast nutrients...

My stand is made of the galvanized stuff you can get at Lowe's or any other home improvement store. I have it in a 2 tier system electric, where I pump upstairs to a direct fire for boil. If you fire on this in the garage I wouldn't worry about fumes. If your venting for CO and CO2 from...

I abandoned my flash burner idea and still use the jet burner as is but I have switched the burner to natural gas. Most commercial rigs are jacketed and use steam to heat... not super heat the bear like I was thinking to do. This is one reason this wasn't pursued by me.

Beer gas 75% N2 25% CO2 40 PSI through a Stout tap for me.

I made mine out of the electrical strut material everyone builds their brew sculptures out of now a days. That way I didn't have to weld anything.

I have a disk sander and I'm sanding down the tips and then using a stainless cross as a die and threading them in, and then backing them out. A little primer and cpvc glue and presto.

FYI don't bother ordering the cpvc crosses for fire supply. They're a different size SOB!

No big secret the curve is gradual enough and the seal is quite pliable. The items that look like blocks are my old chilling system that doesn't work real well. They are salt water aquarium chillers. One arrived slightly damaged so they sent another, and told me to leave the other one out for...

Yeah but I'm planning on not only using this as a washer, and I want the corrosion resistance of the cpvc, which can be used with chemicals. I ended up getting a stainless cross, which is just about the same price it looks like. The main reason I don't bottle much anymore is it takes a while...

Remove the lid, and then remove the screws holding in the lid's screw in flange. Next apply the the seal around the top allowing the seal to go right up to and slightly over the holes that secure the flange to the inductor tank. Take the remainder of the seal and simply apply it around the...

Where is everyone getting the cross cpvc fitting?? I can find the pvc cross fitting all day no problem, but not cpvc.

I've been assembling my parts to do this and came up with an easy way to fill most of my bottles. I'm wondering if anyone has made one of these in a 2 capper configuration by just doubling the cylinder and such?

On my plastic inductor tanks I make the lid air tight by removing the thread ring,and then buying a foamy plastic weather sealer for doors that you can get at Lowes and the like. It is the only one that Lowe's carries with a double bead. and a sticky side like this: The one at Lowe's is...

Are you guys trying to seal the lid? or the glycol fittings in the lid?

I would like to see pictures of how the stainless lines are connected on the inside of the fermenter lid. I'm not sure how to do mine where they're air tight.