Recent content by V-Twin

Looking for some suggestions and/or processes folks use for attaching the Spike carb stone to the conical post fermentation. I'm paranoid about oxygen pick-up in this batch as it's a highly hopped IPA. Wondering how folks are purging the tri-clover stone of CO2 in this scenario? (note to...

Good catch. Wonder if it could at least handle the 15 PSI supported by the Flex+?

Here ya go! Add one of these at the end of the 1/2" SS pipe and connect the spunding valve at the end. 1/2" compression to 1.5" Tri clover I've been trying to figure out how to work around this. :cool:

I have been debating the same things you point out. Here is a solution I have come across so you don't waste the 1.5" port above the racking arm for a thermowell. It combines blow-off and thermowell via a 1.5" tri clover. 1.5" Combo Thermowell & Blow-off tube

I built a jig to coil 50ft of stainless steel tubing. Jig materials cost about $70. Here is a link to the forum thread. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/50-foot-1-2-inch-ss-coil-300138/index12.html Here is a link to the write up on how to build it...

The other option is you could just recirculate your wort through your HLT coils from your boil kettle while you have your HLT full of cold water. You'd have to keep refreshing or running cold water from your hose or whatever during the entire recirculation/cooling process. This would reduce...

Update: I ended up increasing my pressure on my Blonde from 2 PSI to 7 PSI (@66F) and held it there for the next two days. This AM I checked to see where my gravity was and was surprised to see it had already dropped to 1.010 (OG 1.052 pitched on 1/22 Tuesday PM). I Increased the spunding valve...

Well. Put a 11 gallon Blonde in my brewhemoth. Set the spunding valve pressure to the initial 2 lbs (verified setting with pressurized CO2). Can't wait to see how she turns out and learn how/where to set my spunding valve pressure throughout the ferment. :rockin:

I've read all 164 pages of this thread and plan on doing some pressurized fermentation's in my brewhemoth. Question I have is what temperature do I want to keep my fermenting wort at in contrast to the yeast manufacturers guidance temperatures? Does everyone just stick with the yeast...

Looks great man! I'm a couple weeks from firing up my Kal inspired brewery as well (30AMP). My parents live in Granbury, TX.. Looks like it's not to far from Lipan, TX. Looking forward to hearing about your first brew on your electric rig! Cheers!

For those of you that need a diameter smaller than ~11" you will need to mod my design to give your hands more room to push the coil through. Here's an updated photo of my hacked up design. I also updated my instructions/PDF. Now I have my coil down to around 9 1/2" giving me some more room...

This jig really is only going to be good for coiling and/or large radius bends.

For the Pulley's I purchased mine here in California at Orchard's Supply Hardware. However, I found the ones I'm using on Amazon LINK:http://www.amazon.com/Campbell-each-Swivel-Pulley-T7550304/dp/B000I4FQQ6 Looks like you can get 5 of them for $30.70 (cheaper than what I paid for three)...

Description of what I coiled This is a 50' coil of 1/2" O.D. (.020 wall) 304/304L Stainless Steel beverage grade tubing. Grade 304 is the most versatile and most widely used stainless steel available. Bright Annealed Tensile Strength PSI: 87738 Yield Strength PSI: 43749 % Elongation: 50...

Here is a photo of the coil once compressed.