Search results

I’ve been pretty busy with work lately so I haven’t done a whole lot of batches since I had replaced the orings. I have been a little more cautious about my starsan mixing ratio and haven’t had any more issues since

Fair enough, that’s pretty much always the case, gotta pay to play! Being new to the hobby I still don’t think you get better bang for your buck as far as an entry level AIO. If I weren’t new to the hobby or if/when this one bites the dust I would have spent the extra

Awesome! Yes that must be a new ‘feature’ as my foundry that I had bought in the spring doesn’t have the 4 screws like that. I’ve been mindful of getting any liquid on it. I have had a few oops moments and boiled over, but it hasn’t caused any issues with it yet!

So I emailed blichmann to see what they thought and they figure it is from the star San. Possibly too strong of a mix, maybe I f’d up but I thought I was pretty close on my mix The orings are silicone and they sell the replacements. I might just order up some new ones rather than mess around...

Yea I’m not sure what to think as I’ve never seen an oring deteriorate that bad in such a short amount of time. The one in the racking valve seems odd that it would be the cleaners doing it, if any residual got stuck there both orings would have been in contact with it not just the stem oring...

I’m new to all this wonderful stuff and maybe it’s something I’m not doing right but has anyone else had issues with the orings that come with their fermenator cracking up? Second time cleaning thing up I noticed one of the orings on the spunding valve starting to crack. Now on this last...

Yes it should have been fully up to room temp, it had been out of the fridge since I was prepping for the brew. Same process I do with the 840 and that works fine

My 3rd ever batch of Pilsner lager. This is after only being out of primary for about a week, I got thirsty

It’s definitely not scientific but my first batch was around 67% efficiency, since then I’ve been doing the “lift the basket a few times” trick and efficiency has been around 75% since Maybe it was just a fluke on my first batch but it definitely isn’t hurting anything that I can tell. It...

Hard to say. Beerholic can’t make up his mind what his total is lol

25g total so far 5g ale 20g lager

I’m in the same ballpark. Usually around 6h start to finish on 5gal batch

Old thread I know but I have experienced the exact same thing with wlp800! I’m pretty new to the whole game, I’m on batch 5 now. My first 4 were wlp840 pressure fermented at room temp and within 24h I saw activity on the blow off hose. My og was slightly higher on this one (1.060 vs 1.055)...

I have been scouting out new units and yes there are some fairly cheap ones out there but they really don’t have the best reviews, lots of failures within a year it seems Unfortunately the local store doesn’t stock anything and they don’t have anything available other than the more expensive...

Yea that’s why I haven’t been getting too excited about buying one yet, if I can make something half decent for now I will wait for the right deal. It’s hard to justify hacking up a fridge or freezer that’s worth that much

No it wasn’t too bad, just had a little off flavour that I’d assume was the warmer ferment temps (and I wasn’t pressure fermenting). It actually cleared up a bit after I had kegged and refrigerated it for a couple days. I kinda missed the boat on used appliances. Couple years ago it seemed...

So getting excited to play around with my new toys, did one ale kit out of the gate to test things out and wasn’t too bad. I don’t have a kegerator/keezer or anything rigged up yet (everyone wants $1000 for a beat up old fridge!) so I’m fermenting at room temp. The ale surprisingly was...

Yea something like that would definitely do the trick. Or even a tripod that you can stow away when not brewing, that’ll give you the convenience of not having to brew in the doorway!

I’d say the pulley setup would be a very wise decision unless you’re physically capable of lifting the bag and holding it there while it drains, or have a helper to put a grille or something on top of the kettle to rest the bag on while it drains Sparging seems to be (like everything) a whole...

First batch pulled out of the g4 and stuffed into a keg the other day Still got to get things set up properly but this test run was a success all in all. I wasn’t set up with cooling on the g4 yet and like a dummy I did this batch in the house where it inevitably got ignorantly hot outside...