Recent content by marcycaulkins

Pardon my stupid, just didn't fit the o-ring down properly, so the lever wasn't seating properly. Back together now.

hmmm... I was pretty sure I was putting it back the way it came apart but will try that. wish I had brought the thing with me to the office, I'll have to wait until I get home to try it out. I do have this feeling that whatever I'm doing wrong is something really stupid.

How far down is it supposed to sit? I can't seem to get it down far enough to put the bearing cup back on. Or even for the lever to be able to move. I started to take apart another faucet to have another look, and it did seem that the second ball does sit down inside the top hole, but I...

Hi, all. I am having some trouble with a perlick 525SS faucet I disassembled (it was leaking out the bonnet, so I wanted to check o-rings), and now can't put back together. The lever simply will not fit back into the top hole on the faucet. The lever has 2 ball bearings attached, one small...

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normally, I throw the spices in at the end of the boil, but in your case, you can always "dry hop" with the spices a few days to a week before kegging. It also sounds as though you are concerned about the temps... I wouldn't be overly worried. Whereas it would be nice to have perfect...

I have used King Brian's Samhain pumpkin ale as a base recipe, and the spicing is as follows (5 gallon batch): 1 t. cinnamon (5 min) 1/2 t. allspice (5 min) 1/2 t. ground ginger (5 min) 1/4 t. nutmeg (5 min) 1/4 t. clove (5 min) Enough to give a subtle spice presence, but not enough to be...

And me, I usually go with the pacman, which is now my go-to yeast for most of the American style beers I make.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/stone-ruination-clone-155771/

My cheap faucets always had a tendency to stick if I left them for a couple days, and even scrubbing them with star san regularly didn't seem to help much. So happy they are gone!

When I started kegging (less than 1 year ago), I bought a system from keg connection (very happy with them, this is not a thread to ***** about them in any way). Since 4 keg set-ups don't come cheap, I opted not to upgrade to the Perlick faucets at the time of the purchase, figuring I'd get...

Both my husband and I have interests and obsessions that, when we talk about it, makes the other get that glazed over look of "that's nice dear". He loves the beer I make, but obsessive brew talk, not so much.

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I recently ordered a bunch of varied lovibond crystal malts, and decided it would be fun to do a brown ale featuring a little bit of each of them. I will be running this beer tonight, the following is my grain bill, haven't decided on a hop schedule yet, likely gonna use saaz, though. 7 lb...

Westfield native here, when I first saw you were from Agawam, I actually thought maybe you were my nephew finally taking my advice and signing up here. Anyhow, welcome, and happy brewing!