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I did try blowing back through the valve, didn't help. When I disassemble for cleaning I find no fine particle buildup in the screen. I discussed it with my uncle, who happens to be a fairly experienced and accomplished brewer, and I have come to the conclusion it is probably a combination of...

I did try blowing back through the valve, didn't help. When I disassemble for cleaning I find no fine particle buildup in the screen. I discussed it with my uncle, who happens to be a fairly experienced and accomplished brewer, and I have come to the conclusion it is probably a combination of...

I am having a similar quandry. I have been using a square cooler and homemade braid for a couple years. I had a few stuck sparges, so I backed off my mill a bit, somewhere around .038, maybe even .040. After mash, sometimes I mashout, sometimes I dont'. Regardless, when I begin lautering I...

I bottle and keg, depending on the beer and what I want to do with it. Breaking it up in to manageable parts of the process is key, but the one that sucks is cleansing. Gotta soak, or build a manifiold and pump pbw, or something, but that step is the one that sux deluxe for me. Upon...

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The key is by using a IC (heat exchanger), the two temperatures are trying to equalize, so having a large temp difference between wort and water in IC is better. The closer the temp of the wort is to the temp of the water in the IC, the longer it will take to equalize. If you start with about...

I pour from boiling kettle into the fermenter through a sieve. Pretty easy with a large (10" stainless) sieve in to my bucket, but can be managed with a small sieve and funnel for a carboy neck.

I called yesterday and got Thursdays recording, it was available for carryout from the brewery. That,s a bit of a drive from Plymouth, especially today with the snow, but may be worth the trip.

In your initial description using 250 gravity points in 6 gals, you mention sparging 1/2 gal and still having 250 points. That sounds like adding water, sparging should add points as it is bringing more sugar off the grain. If you think it will give you the same .021 points the other half...

The simple answer is, you have 48 actual relays today, your program should require 48 coils, plus maybe a few more for tracking process steps, plus the functions you want to add. If you program them as latch and unlatch you will still probably only need just 100-150 rungs. For a SLC that...

Quite a few years ago now, mid 2000's, I had a cfl overheat. It started smoking and set off a fire alarm. If I weren't home I fear it would have burnt my house down. I tried to notify UL and CUL, they ignored me, I traced the manuf. name to a dead end in china if I remember right, notified...

If the water is allowed to drain, you will have ice contacting the plate at random locations, but much of the plate is NOT in contact with that ice, but air. The temperature change of water is MUCH slower than the temperature change of air, and any water in contact with the plate will chill the...

This. My fridge had 2 bulbs, not sure of the wattage, but the bulbs installed by the manufacturer. I removed the door switch so they would be on all the time, expecting the fridge to run and keep it cold. I should be able to set the fridge thermostat to keep a relatively constant temp for my...

To be fair, I had a long hiatus in there, but, mine has gotten quite a few years of use. Maybe there is a little "they don't make 'em like they used to" also. I have found that many foreign bottles (Warsteiner is one) seem to have less of a ridge around the neck, making it more difficult to...

The bottom one is for removing yeast, the top one is for racking clear beer. Your idea of using a false bottom may do what you want it to do, I can't really understand what you want it for. The yeast will settle to the bottom naturally, there is no reason for a separation between clear beer...

I got mine in 1992, and still use it.

There's zero chance of vd with a check.

Thanks, but I'll stick with the bonus check.

Now you're thinking!

You can absolutely mix and match kegs in a system. Pin locks are shorter and larger diameter, so many use them for how they fit in the keezer. They are generally cheaper too. By configuring your draft system that way, you may be dedicating a particular keg to a particular faucet, but if that's...