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I am trying to pressure/leak test a fermenter. The fermenter had some amount of water in it. I have the fermenter completely sealed and pressurize it to, say, 2 PSI with CO2, then disconnect the CO2 tank The pressure gauge on the fermenter slowly over an hour or more drops to 0. I realize that...

@Golddiggie many thanks for the offer but I'm down in PA. Thinking I might be able to get a second hand stainless steel equipment stand that woulddo the trick. @BarryBrews nice setup. I'm always curious how folks with with wood stands handle cleanup. Or is that just not as much of a think when...

No time crunch. The current cinderblock setup works, but just got a pump to save the aching back and having visions of tripping over tubing if I just leave that on the floor. Expect you are right that this isn't a great setup. Came here to be talked out of it. Thanks for that. Will make sure...

I've learned something important - thank you. That said, from experience brewing with this burner on the garage floor lifted with cinderblocks, I really don't think the reflected heat or the transferred heat through the legs get anywhere close to the 350+ F temps I am seeing where it becomes...

Huh - standing on this thing earlier I had no doubts. Glad to have some added insight. Thank you. Why do you say NOT galvanized for the sheet metal?

Stated load is 350 lbs, per shelf. Evidence suggests that it very securely holds one 220lb me distributed only across one span via 2x4, bouncing up and down (plus ~12 oz of homebrew). I do 5 gallons batches so I can't see putting more than 100lbs on the shelf at any point during actual use...

Thank you. I am now thinking about re-using a chrome wire rack already on hand. The challenge is figuring out how to get my propane burner to rest on the rack safely. You can see from the pics that I have just enough room to put something under the burner to distribute the weight and keep it...

Looking to put something simple together to organize my 5 gal BIAB setup. Just needs to hold the 10 gallon kettle and propane burner off the ground and give me something to mount my pump to. Bonus points but not necessary if there's an easy way to add on a hoist for lifting bag out. Something...

All super helpful info and real world experience and really appreciated. For now, just had one of those tweaks in the back lugging the kettle last brew day and decided I need to have a pump for the kettle transfer before my next one. Now that I will have the capability, I'm sure the next...

Thanks again! On the chugger replacement head's with TC fittings that you have - are both TC fittings welded or permanently attached to the head, or are one or both threaded? I'm looking at the x dry and I can't tell if the head is one solid unit. In some pictures it looks like a seam on at...

Thank you! Center inlet vs inline? Any major pros or cons? So, if I get a chugger or riptide that has the triclamp fittings, those are threaded on to the pump? I thought they would be 'welded' or some sort of seamless connection. Then I was thinking I would do tri-clamp to 1/2 barbs on the...

I am going to take the plunge get a pump. Would like to buy once, cry once. Looking for insights on the pump itself and the particulars of the fittings. Currently, I do 5 gallon batches. Propane tank. BIAB in a 10 gallon kettle, single port. Immersion chiller. Hoist the kettle and gravity drain...

Got it - so the low pressure is enough for a gravity assisted sealed transfer without creating negative pressure on the inside of the fermenter. Slick. And no concerns about CO2 interacting with the regulator components? Either over the short term to corrode something that ends up in the beer...

This is one of those really elegant solutions that you can't help but appreciate...even if you have already partially solved it with your own expensive Rube Goldberg contraption. Sigh - wish I had seen this a few weeks ago :) I guess one 'downside', depending on your setup, is the need to keep...

Looking around in BeerSmith there is a setting in the equipment for Estimate Hop Utilization in Boil. Toggling that, my estimated IBUs go from 35 to 45 (even with no actual whirlpool addition). So I guess BeerSmith will estimate this for you - obviously the actual contribution from the boil hops...

So if starting a whirlpool addition at say 185 - I assume you use the chiller to get it down to 185 faster rather than wait for it to cool on its own? I guess I should either be removing the boil hops at flameout or account for the additional bitterness if I leave the boil hops in while I chill...

Thanks all. Sounds like I can keep the lid off quite a bit longer than I have been. Until this post seeing my wort uncovered at under 200 degrees had me pretty nervous. The thought of opening the fermenter an chucking something in at room temp gives me cold sweats :) Obviously it's not that a...

At what temperature does it start to get risky to leave your kettle open after the boil - from an infection perspective? Think I've been too conservative. I usually end up throwing in my 'whirlpool' hops right at flameout and immediately covering kettle and letting it sit for 15 minutes for...

Not so little that it could be ruled out as contributory, but not enough to be a good excuse.

Yup - played that game too. Was smrt enough this time to use the magnet I spaced on earlier to check the traps. No luck in the garage. Oh, I think I might have dumped in bathroom sink. Then, under the bathroom sink at 12:15am, I had a particularly ugly realization - pretty sure I flushed it...