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Just updated the price in the first post. Local pickup only though. Cant find a box big enough for em.

The CO2 Tank and Regulator has sold.

After a couple of days of PMing people shipping costs, I have come to this determination: 1) Unless you want ~$30 or more worth of stuff, shipping will be cost prohibitive for you. 2) The Brew Stand, Kegs, and Mash/Lauter Tun are local pickup only. The rest I can ship (this includes the CO2...

I will. Just PM with zip and what you might want.

Selling my entire All Grain brewing setup. I live in the Columbia, SC area. Pictures - http://picasaweb.google.com/steve.easley/BrewingGear?authkey=Gv1sRgCI6qgMGuzdKERw Custom 2-Tier Steel Brew Stand with Hurricane Burner. Made from 1.5" tube steel, welded, and painted. - $350 36qt...

Bump. This is still available.

Hah, typo on my part. Should be Wort Chiller. And in case you were not being facetious, its a device used to quickly cool wort down to room temperature.

Just sent you a PM.

Steve Easley Columbia, South Carolina Selling my entire All Grain brewing setup. Unfortunately I just don't have the time I thought I would to spend on this (awesome) hobby. Pictures - http://picasaweb.google.com/steve.easley/BrewingGear?authkey=Gv1sRgCI6qgMGuzdKERw Custom made...

Yea, I totally subscribe to that thinking now. As far as tweaking Beersmith to get me closer I am mainly doing it to understand the process better. I have always learned best by knowing whats going on under the hood.

I highly recommend trying out one of the beer software apps. Most have a free trial. Beersmith (and the others im sure) have an equipment profile that you can input all your equipment (volumes, waste, evaporation, etc). To get those numbers you can do what I did, do a mach beer session with just...

Yea, it was too high. It was set to 20.10% resulting in a 1.63 gal boil off. My measured boil off (in tests and in this batch) is only 1.5 gal. The problem cropped up when I upped the Final Volume to 5.5 for this batch. Not sure why Beersmith uses a percentage. You should be able to just enter...

/cry I know, I keep beating myself up over that. I guess not having a clue what all the measurements really meant at the time I was taking them, I just stuck with the plan, it said boil 60min, and thats what I did. Now that I understand the process and numbers much better I can react to problems...

No, it is definitely 8.11 gal boil volume (total water needed was 9.61). After looking at how Beersmith works the only other thing that would cause it to over estimate mash/sparge volume, besides deadspace, is absorption. It looks like it used 1.19 gal for my 9.9 lb grain bill. It seems for my...

Maybe someone can help me understand how to fix this for the next brew. Problem 1 Beersmith said to achieve a 5.5 gal batch size I needed a 8.11 boil volume. But after following the recommended 3.08 gal mash in and two sparges of 3.26 gal each I ended up with 8.5 gal. What setting in...

I'm surprised Palmer's book recommends such a high ratio mixture. "Boil a pint (470mL) of water and stir in 1/2 cup (120ml) of dry malt extract. This would produce a starter of about 1.040 OG". 470mL with 1/2 cup would have results in an even higher OG than I got with 675mL right?

I made my first starter this morning and ended up with a OG of 1.050 (after pitching yeast). Should I attempt to get that down to 1.040? I started with about 675mL of water and added 1/2cup of DME. According to the Dilution Tool in BeerSmith I would need to add 146mL of water to lower the OG...

I ended up using a 90 degree SS elbow like this.

Also, I thought it notable that I was able to positively determine I had a sealed system with no leaks. After getting a good flow of water I turned off the ball valve. The flow at the other end of the CFC instantly stopped, and hardly a drop dripped from the output in the minute I left it like...

Success! The solution was vibrating the hoses. I started with the BK to CFC hose and kept vibrating it to break up the air into bubbles. I made sure there was a small upward arch in the hose right at the CFC head so the bubbles would collect there and get swept into the CFC. Only took about...