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BACKGROUND First time dabbling with wild yeast! Took some bark shavings from an apple tree in my back yard and put it in a 1.020 wort on a stir plate. After it showed fermentation I stepped it up a few times and then used it in a 2 gallon split batch – 1 gal IPA (1.060) and 1 gal Pale ale...

In Brewing Better Beer by Gordon Strong, he recommends finished beer pH be no higher than 4.5 ... for flavor and stability reasons. Apparently yeast autolysis will raise the pH. My last batch of a hoppy red was at 4.69 two weeks into fermentation, and I added a calculated amount of 10%...

Posted this first in the wrong forum (general brewing). I haven't brewed in a while and am revving up for a brew day. One of the things I needed to refresh my memory on was how long I was running my pure 02 tank (through a .5 micron stone) to oxygenate the wort before pitching. I have a medical...

I haven't brewed in a while and am revving up for a brew day. One of the things I needed to refresh my memory on was how long I was running my pure 02 tank (through a .5 micron stone) to oxygenate the wort before pitching. I have a medical regulator on the tank and can control the flow down to...

Can you find the schematics for that fridge? You need to know what, if anything you would be cutting through so you don’t ruin the unit.

Without knowing where the important components of the fridge are, I can't say whether you can cut the freezer out or not. There could be coils running through that section. The compressor hump is probably less of an issue, if I had to guess. You could probably leave it as is and remove the...

It claims to have automatic defrost, and there is a drain tube. The "defrost cycle" supposedly happens when the compressor turns off and any ice that has formed melts away and it drips through a hole in the bottom into a pan above the compressor. I verified that it does drain through. I did...

Is that the Danby Model# DAR044A4BDD-3 ?? Ball lock Cornies?

Thanks all, for the input. I have manually defrosted it several times, and that frost ball keeps popping up. It cools down to 50 degrees, and then that's it. maybe the recharge will do it? I'll look into that.

Hey everyone, I've had my kegerator for about 6–7 years. It's a converted Danby mini fridge, I bought new, that holds two cornies. I keep it on a Johnson Control at around 37 degrees, and it's been great so far. So I was really bummed to see that it's only cooling down to 50 degrees and the...

Great read. Curious about the pH of those finished IPAs. So what are your Bru'n water profiles these days for various IPAs?

Hey guys, it was never tipped up on its side – always kept upright. The freezer has an analog thermostat dial, that I turned all the way up to cold. Compressor runs continuously, and if I turn the thermostat to OFF, it shuts OFF. I have kept it all the way cold and had it running for two...

Okay, thanks guys. Don't wanna drag this out ... just curious. The supply coil (from the compressor) is still getting cold – is that possible if it's out of coolant due to a leak?

A little update: my friend an I were looking at this last night, and came to the consensus that because this is a closed system, it was working (cold) when I bought it, and there was never a leak on the floor, that the refrigerant level is not the problem. I plugged it in again last night, and...

It's a Kenmore

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll post more info about the freezer when I get home, as well as looking into the guts that I can access. @soulshine2 – I didn't turn it on for weeks after setting it in the garage, so I'm not sure how I could have gotten an air bubble, but I know...

Picked up a ~10 cu ft freezer on craigslist from another brewer, and it came with a digital temp controller. He had it plugged in and cold when I looked at it. I bought it, even though it needed a serious cleanup – the interior bottom was rusted through to the foam insulation in a few spots...

where did he go?

yeah, what happened?

Hi, what do you mean "boil 90 minutes to take caramel away from the 60?" Boiling longer adds caramelization. What am I missing here?