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I ferment in half barrels....so lifting those with 10 gallons in them is not the easiest of things to do.... So I have been using co2 to push the beer to the kegs. It is nice in two ways....no lifting....and beer is transferred under a blanket of co2 to deter oxidation.... It does empty your...

There is the Lager Mill in frankenmuth..... they have an decent selection..... I live in Caro which is about 40 minutes north of lapeer..... I also belong to the Lapeer Area Brewers.... check us out www.lapeerareabrewers.com we meet the 3rd sunday of the month at the Lapeer VFW on Daley Road @ 3pm

Count me in... they look very cool.

She's a spinning now..... I ended up taking 1 HD magnet off and adding 4 small disc magnets and it works great....I still might end up swapping out the power supply because even at the lowest speed it sucks the vortex to the bottom making a gurgling sound..... I have a feeling it wont do that...

I have some small rare earth magnets.... I might pull the hd magnet i have on there now off and try the smaller disc magnets..... I think I have 8 of those..... should be enough..... I will fill you in if it works. Thanks again!

the motor is as close as it can get.... it ticks the top of the box just a little.... I have a feeling that it might be spinning too fast... I have a 12v powersupply with a pot inline..... it is turned all the way down..... I was thinking of adding another magnet possibly and see if that works...

I have a strange situation with my stir plate..... I have a 1 in bar and in a 1l flask it spins like crazy and works just fine...... I just picked up a 2L flask..... filled it with water... dropped the bar in.... and I cant keep the stirbar from being tossed........ if I push down a little I can...

Definately not bottling...... 2 kegs is all I want to clean.... if I want to bottle I can from the kegs..... but for the most part I leave everything on tap.... I like being able to brew 10 gallons.....I usually do 5 gallons of a recipe first and if I like it I will make 10 gallons later...

I made 10 gallons of American Wheat today..... it was cold outside but nice and toasty in the garage with the heater.....

I had a stand built for me that is very similar to yours and it cost me $250 which most of that was for materials. Same 2x2 box steel..... but then it cost me close to $100 for burners, hoses, fittings, etc.......just for the gas side......$15 bucks for this and $15 bucks for that adds up...

I didnt notice a lot of hop particles in the fermenter.....I am sure there were a few but for the most part they were in the bag..... it is easy to clean too.... just flip it inside out and rinse.....I think I made the whole thing for less than $10.... and most of that was because the paint...

The paint strainer bag has worked for me quite well.... I attached it to a 4" pvc coupler with a worm clamp and then drilled 2 holes through the sides to put a piece of threaded rod through so it sits on top of my keggle.... the bag doesnt touch the bottom and the wort flows freely around the...

as far as you melting the handles on your ball valves... if you welded couplers in the side you could just put a nipple on it to move the ball valve out from the kettle wall....

I will be attending on friday... I havent missed one in 8 years I think....

I just bought a couple 7 gallon buckets and gamma seals from usplastics.com and was wondering if other people were using the gamma seals and how you liked them... I plan to drill a hole in the top of the lid to put a stopper and airlock on it. I read an article in BYO about these and thought it...

we keep our house at 60 most of the day and during the night..... I wanted to make sure it started fermenting as soon as possible so I stuck it in the sink with some warm water for an hour or so..... I am sure it didnt raise the temp all that much but by the afternoon it was bubbling like crazy...

Back Deck Brewery......because the first batch I made was on the back deck..... just kind of stuck.....now I have the Back Deck Tavern (basement bar) which has exclusive serving rights of all brews made at Back Deck Brewery.

Cool thanks! I did a little more searching after posting this thread and have pretty much found the same answers..... this is good information to know.

I just switched from an immersion chiller to a cf chiller.... brewed my first batch with it on sunday (Bells Oberon Clone).... I barely had the water running through the hose and it chilled the exiting wort to 60 degrees..... the chiller is about 25 ft in length..... I have never had to warm the...

I have a question on scaling recipes up or down.... I have typically done 5 gallon batches but have built a new rig that will allow me to do 10 gallon batches now. I have searched for different recipes and most of them are for 5 gallons.... my question is can I just double everything and call it...