Recent content by whale

how about cutting down the 5G corny to 3G. its been welded once, I dont see why not.

I bought some stuff from green line hose. try them, if not try some boat shops too.

I have built a box with wood, mounted a bathroom fan on it. with flex hose. it sits a foot above my pot. I just move it out of the way when I need to be in the pot. closer to the pot, smaller the fan. FRP pannels are heavy....

I find the first pull out of the co2 tank seems to drop the high pressure quite a bit. then it stops. then it wont move til you are out. check theweight of the tank now. you should find a weight of the empty tank stamped somewhere. plus your co2. if you are close to it then you didnt loose too...

temp in your fridge will make a difference on psi. lower the temp, more carb in beer. you've carbed @12psi then down to 10psi. as you drink the beer, it will set @ 10psi = flatter beer. picnic tap has less foaming problem because the whole tap tends to stay in the fridge.

warm beer may be only 4 oz or so but the tap is warm too and I find when i pour a glass, the tap looks very cold, by the time I finish my glass, the tap is warm again.... I am thinking of insulating the tower little more, using copper pipe to conduct the cold into the tower.

I went with the igloo 5gal in the pic. 10gal rubbermade gott cost way too much here also I would only do 5 gal batches and no big beer. I like my beer to be around 4-5% alc range. I figured 5gal cooler would be enough for this. I think the round cooler tends to be narrower thus deeper. If you...

hear carbonated liquid + copper/brass is not good idea. go with alminum or buy a chiller plate. if you can find a chiller plate off a pop machine, it works great. many used restaurant equipment places has them kicking. I bought 2 for $30. new will be somewhere around $300 for one.

I think insulated air tight box is a must, if not, you will have a problem with condensation on the bucket, fridge and pump working pretty hard. there isnt much difference in temperature between the reserve water and whats in the bucket. its like can the fridge cool with door not closed all the...

think it gets cold enough... it froze my beer yesterday.

yep twisting them back on work!! I ve done that.

what do you do with the filter once its used?? do you chuck it or wash it sanitize it??

are you doing all grain or partial mash?? all grain is where you start with just grain, no extract (syrup). mash= soaking of the grain in hot water lautering= filtering out the grain to get the wort sparging = washing the grain to get whats left of the wort. it is pretty simple. terms...

or did you just put a new warm corny in there??

mini fridge is not worth it. get a 4.4cu ft. its not that much bigger. just taller. to convince your SWMBO for keggrator will be saves you space, since you have no bottles batch of bottles you are currently drinking batch of bottles you are conditioning...