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I'm sorry I feel off the HBT bandwagon. Since I was last on here, I: - Sold my house, got divorced, moved across country - Pedaled my bicycle around Iceland, around both islands of New Zealand, and across the USA. - I lived in a truck camper with a DIY retrofit for solar power and lived off...

Sounds like I owe you guys a price list. Work is a busy right now, but I will sit down and enumerate the items I bought, including upgrades to make it work more smoothly.

If I could use some sort of system to electrically chill water (or possibly glycol) for recirculation, I would; changing the ice once or twice per day can be a bit of a pain for a lager. On the other hand, keeping beers around 60-70 is significantly easier. And this ice solution was cheap...

Since the outlet is 1.5", as is the butterfly valve, I haven't had any problems with a clogging, but possibly because I make a quick trub/hop dump at the start. My procedure so far is: transfer whirlpooled/chilled beer into two sanitized plastic 5 gallon carboys filled to the brim (plastic...

I held it for 6 days, until it attenuated 75%. Let it rise to 60 F, which required half the amount of ice to maintain temp. Dumped trub/yeast once it finished primary, lowered temp, and they've been lagering in kegs for a long time, and will continue to until October. I could tell when...

Before I only tested to about 3 PSI. With this lager, it's at atmospheric pressure, aapparently the seal has failed. The silicone and and weather stripping are only protecting against inadvertent dust floating in. I contacted 'allclene' from the original thread, and he estimates finishing at...

First, I take the cone to the shower to clean out as much as possible. Then, I use a 1/3 HP pump with 3/4" ID tubing circulating PBW solution through a CIP spray ball. Only takes about 10-20 minutes and it cleans off all krausen and garbage quite well. I use the same pump system to...

I built a diptube by cutting a stainless steel elbow installed in a compression fitting, but never used it. The dead space below the side port diptube only holds about a quart based on where I drilled it, and is usually full of yeast, dry hop matter, etc. I think a diptube is only necessary if...

I posted a separate thread (since this one is so long) about my plastic conical build: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/temperature-controlled-plastic-conical-build-421666/

If you ever sell your house, you could probably spot homebrewers among prospective buyers based on their response to that beautiful timesaver.

Inspired by all of the topics in https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/super-simple-15g-plastic-conical-276378/ and https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/ebay-aquarium-temp-controller-build-163849/ I built an insulated plastic conical fermenter. - Purchased inductor (MDPE cone) and stand from...

I was in a similar boat with the RuralKing delay. I had to call and cancel the order, but their customer service was confused because they had shipped out a plastic bulkhead already, and labeled the entire order as complete. Got my money back, ordered from Agrimart; arrived 3 days after ordering.

Looking forward to it, thanks for the hard work.

I might reconsider my Vienna malt purchase if nobody wants to split. I'm planning a Vienna-base Oktoberfest, but would only use it for the one batch. The 2-row still stands as requested. Can I please get a new PM for grain prices? The old ones I have appear to have vanished.

What ABV is your homebrew?! SG of water is 1.0, a barleywine is near 1.1.

Since nobody was interested in splitting a bag of Vienna, would anybody be interested in trading half a bag of Weyermann Light Munich for Vienna?

1 Weyermann Vienna Malt 1 Rahr 2 Row Brewer's I am interested in splitting the Vienna malt 50%!

I suppose using a well is different than the pressure a normal water system supllies. My comment was pointing out that the volume of water wasted can be managed. That was your original point. I only brought up chilling on the topic of waste, so it almost certainly uses more water than the...

No matter what you do, RO is going to have waste. If you pick up 10-20 gallons of RO from the store, how much water did they waste (surely it went into the sewer), and how much fuel did you burn for the journey (if your trip is solely for RO water)? When you chill your beer, how much water...

That's break material, indeed. I reduce the canned break material by boiling my starter wort prior to filling jars, and chilling down to 80s with a copper immersion chiller. Boil and chill leaves significant hot and cold break in kettle. Also, copper during boil supplies some yeast...