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Does anyone know how the tri-clad (stainless-aluminum-stainless) kettle bottoms are usually constructed? Are they bonded together with something or just sandwiched? I ask because I want to silver solder a bottom drain into my electric HLT. It is my old boil kettle (Megapot 1.2). I'm...

Anyone here ever taken one of the Stout sight glasses apart? I disassembled mine to clean it, and was surprised to discover that the things that look like unions are not unions, they are just threaded onto the stainless tube that houses the glass. I'm just wondering if there is a best...

I'm looking at building a new mash tun, and I would like to see what everyone who recirculates their mash (RIMS/HERMS) is using. Some things I'm thinking about: How to return the wort to the tun without letting it dig a hole in the mash. How to return the wort without splashing too...

I batch sparge and so far all of my recipes drain the tun once, refill, and drain again. So that's two batches. When I do a high gravity beer, I still just do two batches, but my mash efficiency drops about 10%, which I understand is typical. I want to make 10 gallons of an Oktoberfest and...

I just built a new kettle and am having a slight issue with the pickup tube. My old kettle just had a weldless 1/2 coupler on the inside for a pickup. The kettle was a fairly small diameter, so I didn't lose much wort and it never clogged when recirculating (I whirlpool). The new kettle is...

I'm going to be staying in downtown Atlanta (near the GA dome) for a few days at the end of this month. Are there any good craft pubs/breweries in the nearby area that I should visit? I will have a car available, but I won't have time to stray too far away. Thanks

I've brewed a ton of ales and the normal gravity versions are generally done in 2 or three days at 67F and I let them go another 5 or 6 days to let things clean up. I just made my first lager, a munich dunkel, OG of 1.050 and used a 2.5L starter with 2 vials of WLP833. I pitched at 44F and...

I just got a new Perlick 630SS faucet in the mail. Aside from the things the advertising states, I immediately noticed that the inner diameter of the spout is smaller. So the growler fillers for the 525s won't work. Also, the bonnet parts are quite different. Looks like they eliminated the...

I've found that the old stopper and a racking cane trick for filling growlers and bottles under pressure works great for me. I get pretty much zero foam and the beer going into the container is carbonated perfectly. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/ I...

Just curious, as this is my garage beer fridge. It is a Danby DAR440, which I know a lot of people use as kegerators. Anyway, it died. The inside smelled like a burned up transformer and it would not cool at all (compressor didn't even try to come on). I took it apart and it looks like the...

So, my water is pretty soft: Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 51 ppm Sodium, Na 8 Potassium, K < 1 Calcium, Ca 6 Magnesium, Mg 1 Total Hardness, CaCO3 19 Nitrate, NO3-N < 0.1 (SAFE) Sulfate, SO4-S 1 Chloride, Cl 7 Carbonate, CO3 < 1 Bicarbonate, HCO3 16 Total Alkalinity...

What does everyone thing about this recipe for a Munich Dunkel? Any input would be appreciated. Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Boil Size: 7.96 gal Post Boil Volume: 6.24 gal Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal Bottling Volume: 5.00 gal Estimated OG: 1.054 SG Estimated...

Has anyone made a yeast starter with WLP500 (trappist ale) and apple juice? I'm planning a batch of cider in a few days and I put a two month old vial of WLP500 in 2000ml of Kirkland's (pasteurized, no preservative) juice about 24 hours ago. I added a pinch of yeast nutrient that I boiled in...

How do pro brewers and others that use conicals (of whatever size) with the big butterfly dump valves deal with sanitation? I know they use a triclover block off plate to keep it sealed off when not in use. When they want to harvest yeast, do they just spray it out with StarSan before and...

So, I'm having trouble coming up with a good name for this milk stout that I brewed a few weeks ago. The story behind it is that I decided I would brew during the week after work. I figured I could start the strike water heating when I got home with the kids (3 year old and 10 month old), mash...

I'm setting up a keggle and have already dimpled and silver soldered a coupler in for the valve. Now I need to add a sight glass. I have the sight glass setup from BargainFittings. I punched a hole and dimpled it for the sight glass. I was planning to solder in a half coupling...

I am going to bottle a sparkling (force carbed) mead sometime in the next few months and I'd like to put it in clear bottles... but since it is carbonated it will need to either be crown capped or corked and caged. I don't have the equipment to cork/cage them. The only cap-able clear bottles...

So, I was just talking to the head engineer for my household water treatment plant. They currently use bleach (chlorine) to treat the water. Apparently algae is the main concern. However, because of new guidelines (something about the compounds created as a result of the chlorine killing stuff)...

I'm brewing a strong scotch ale this weekend and I want to boil a gallon of the first runnings down to about a pint and then return that to the boil. Hoping for some nice caramelized flavor. However, I don't want to burn or scorch it. Not looking for any burnt flavors :cross: I have a 6...

I currently have a HERMS setup consisting of a 2KW 120V element mounted in a 2 gallon cooler and a copper coil immersed in that which the wort flows through. I use a PID controller and an RTD sensor at the output in the mash tun to control it. I'm looking to replace that setup with something...