Recent content by Sumta

The welder did NOT put water in the keg before cutting out the lid, so I have pitting in the bottom. Is there any reason that this will be more than an annoyance? jw

I just took two kegs to a local welder. He cut out the top, added the fittings I wanted and handed it back in a pretty painless way for $80. I had started out using a jigsaw with the appropriate blade, and while the cutting was pretty easy (relatively speaking), the blade was too wide to...

I had a Brazillan beer tonight. It was called Xingu. It kinda tasted like a bock, only not so forceful. I reallly liked it. Does anyone know the style? jw

same way as i clean my glass carboys. soak it, then push in a giant bristly brush. but i take your point. I can actually see when the glass carboys are clean.

I am getting some cutting/welding on friday to change my 15.5 gal keg into a brew kettle and one of my 7.75 gal kegs into a steam boiler. I have two other 7.75gal kegs that I am considering turning into fermenters. My thought is to weld a 2" threaded nipple to the top of each so that I...

I am in the process of building my zymurglith (brewing sculpture) and am looking for a few thermometers to screw into the sides of my brewing vessels. I see this thermometer at more beer for $35. Any better deals out there? jw

Wow. I need dairy friends. Dude, you have just become a microbrewer.

McMaster is the bomb! jw

I have been eyeballing a lot of diferent all grain setups over the last two weeks and have noticed that many people with stainless steel kegs serving as a tun or kettle are having stainless steel fittings welded on to their kegs, then attaching to it a brass fitting. Doesn't this cause leaks...

I am soon to be buying some stainless steel ball valves, relief valves and some other fittings for my impending sculpture. Does anyone have a favored place to buy these things? Preferably at a lower price than morebeer.com. $27 for a 3pc 1/2" stainless steel ball valve seems to be about...

I think I have slipped into yet another parallel universe. About ten years ago when I started this hobby all of the books that I read talked about the "great debate" between boilers and non-boilers. That some people take their wort to a roiling boil and others maintain theirs at just short...

DyerNeed, How did you secure your steam valve to the top of your pressure canner? At least it looks like the top and not the side. jw

Well, I am the proud owner of a keg and three ponies. The rest of the kegs at the scrapyard were in too bad of a shape to be used. The large one is gonna become a boiling kettle. One pony will become a low pressure steam boiler as soon as I finish working out the chemisty. The other two...

I had never heard of anyone doing this of purpose. Back just after college my roommate stuck some plates and glassware in the oven thinking it was a dishwasher. He came to his senses later that night, and wanting his frozen pizza, preheated the over to 400...

I'll have to look up the address. I'll do that second thing tommorow. No really! Thanks all for making me feel better! :rockin: jw