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    Illinois Northwest suburbs - kegerator

    holds 6-7 kegs, copper top. 4x perlick faucets, the nice ones. Needs new lines. Includes a 5lb CO2 tank, dual regulator seems OK and gas distribution. Please text: 847-847-852five
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    Illinois Northwest suburbs - 8x corny kegs

    35 each, ball locks. Soaked in PBW and then sanitizer. Served me great for years, changed all seals about 2 years ago. Text: 847-847-852five please!
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    Illinois 10 and 15 Gal Corny Kegs - N.W Chicago Area

    I have two new corny kegs for sale. They held saline for eyewash stations for a few weeks and that is it. There is a sticker on the other side that will take some elbow grease and goo-gone to remove. It needs posts, but other than that, they are perfect. The smaller is 10 gallons, the larger...
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    Illinois FS: New 10 and 15 Gal Corny Kegs

    Hey Guys, I have a basically new, pristine 10 and 15 gal corny keg. The only thing that they are missing is the posts, all other hardware, including probably the hardest to find part - the dip tube - is included. They held saline once for a few hours and that is it. I am in Arlington...
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    How quick can I Secondary and re-pitch on a lager cake

    Brewed an amber lager on Monday, used a 4L stirplate starter of WL833 bock yeast, had solid activity in 12 hours and it was roaring after 24 hours. I have kept the internal wort temp at 51 degrees. Is there any chance that: 1. I can move this to secondary on Sunday, 6 days after brewing...
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    Help me with an off-flavor: Ashy/Tobacco/Leather

    Hey All, Took a 6mo break from brewing to renovate a new house, trying to get the pipeline stocked and started brewing some easy favorites. I am typically very picky of my beers and consider myself a good brewer, compares well to most commercial beers, high drinkability etc. My most...
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    New Kegerator

    At my last house I just had a fridge kegerator, it could hold 4 kegs. At this house, I picked up a chest freezer on Craigslist, some copper at colorcopper.com and a few pieces of walnut, and made this. Eventually it will get a walnut edge for the whole freezer and I want to get better...
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    Is RO Water oxygen free??

    ????? Thanks in advance.
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    High Flow supply of RO water

    For my brewing system, I use a flash boiler or instant hot water heater. It has a PID with a bypass valve to create hot water at whatever temp I need. This is obviously dependent on having a high flow (tap) connection. When heating RO water for more delicate beers I end up using my kettle...
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    Adding Calcium Post-Pitch

    I used RO for the first time, and realized that I am only at 30ppm Ca Ions. I know that this may affect my beer clarity in the end, is there any reason to try to add in some Gypsum and CaCl to try to get the Ca up a bit? The beer is currently fermenting. Thanks.
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    This will be interesting -10Gal Wort, 2 fermentes, 11g US-05 in one, krausen to other

    I went to brew 10g of 1.060 Pale Ale on Tuesday and found I only had 1 pack of US-05 remaining. Rather than try to underpitch both batches, I decided to pull 5g from the BK when the wort was at 68 degrees and pitch the whole pack (I usually pitch US-05 at 64, but wanted a fast start). I...
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    binary flow control through a flash boiler

    It works! I used a Pid and two valves to control flow. The pid turns on a solenoid valve to increase the flow and lower the output temp. It works great, pics to follow.
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    Flexible Fluid-filled jacket for Fementer?

    I have two conicals and a nice coolign system that pumps cold water around jackets around them when it is called for. Currently it uses about 30' of tubing wrapped aroudn the fermenter. This is a pain in the but each time I brew, since I have a long tube and need to wrap and unwrap it from...
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    Fun ways to make 2 beers (partigyle etc.)

    Now that I have three kids at home, it is more important than ever to try to do a 10 gal batch each brew day. Some of the cool things I have done over the years: 1. Standard partigyle, obviously with options to cap the mash to some degree for the 2nd runnings. This takes 2 BKs though, or...
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    FS: Electrical Control Enclosures

    I have for sale 2 of these electrical control enclosures. They have a hinged face, that locks in place with an allen-head screw. They are 8.5 tall, 11" wide and 6" deep. There are two conduit knock-outs on the bottom and the left, 6 on the top. The ones on the bottom and side each have...
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    Does Acetylaldehyde stick to/in yeast

    I have noticed this brewing lagers over the last year. When I have a beer in the fermenter, there is no green apple smell or taste, no Diacetyl etc, and it has been about 4-5 weeks, I go ahead and keg it. As it gets cold in the keg and I take a sample after a week or so to check for...
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    Starter with DryYeast

    Against the normal advice, and since I cant get to the LHBS, I just diid a 5L starter with 1 pack of US-05. I am brewing 10gal of a 1.075 IIPA on Wednesday and only had 1 pack. I *think* I will still be underpitching by a bit, but I dont really think I had any other option here. Anyone else...
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    1/2" compression fitting to 1-1/2" tri-clover

    I have a GEMS Sensors FS-480P that has 1/2" tube compression nuts on each end to connect up tubing. I got this sensor for free and would like to install it with my tri-clover RIMS system as a safety device. The question is how to adapt 1/2" compression fittings to 1-1/2" tri-clamp. The...
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    FS: Brewmometer, Cam-Lok Fittings

    Blichman Brewmomemter: All hardware included, used for about 1yr, very slight condensation inside of glass, but still perfectly readable. I think these go for $30 most everywhere, so I will offer it for $15.00. Cam-Lok fittings: 8 Female Hose fittings (Type C) 6 Male NPT...
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    Wyeast 3739 - An animal!

    About 2 weeks ago, I brewed a belgian table beer, about 1.038, about 8oz of Crystal malt in in, and also about 8oz of honey. The smack-pack alone took that beer down to 1.004 in about 3 days, pretty good performance I thought, gravity samples tasted great, typically belgian, no off flavors, a...
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