Why go deer hunting when you can...

use your tree stand to brew with! It's only temporary, but I needed to get my new enormous brew pot off the floor, so I could use my new cfc. Everything went ok, for some reason the wort didn't want to come out of the ball valve. Still trying to figure that out. Btw, I was brewing a AHS Chocolate raspberry stout, for $17 I couldn't resist.







And please don't mind my dirty garage, im ashamed

No safety strap?

My ball valve does it too. Every once in a while a plug of hop particles gets in there during the boil, and jams it up. I think it helps to purge a little water/wort before adding hops to get the air out of the valve. Sometimes just holding the end of the tube and squeezing it helps. Othertimes I have to (this is gonna sound bad no matter how I say it) suck the wort through. Normally there is still some StarSan in the CFC, and I put the first few ounces in a cup, then put the hose in the carboy.

I wish my garage was only that dirty...

i swear when I saw the first pic, it looked like it was strapped to the truck

tuckferrorists said:

i swear when I saw the first pic, it looked like it was strapped to the truck

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You and me both

That's a great idea! I have a post in the middle of my garage I could hook one of those up to. Of course, my garage is a pig stye compared to yours, and I don't really want to brew in there yet. I'm working on it, though.

homebrewer_99 said:

I wish my garage was only that dirty...

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Part of my cellar floor is dirt.

Trick I learned with the CFC is to prime it with starsan, then quickly hook it up to your boil kettle to drain. For some reason if there is a little air in the line it just does not seem to want to flow....

Very creative!!!!!


Oh, and your garage isn't dirty at all!

Yep that garage is not dirty. But you might want to put a seat on that bicycle before you ride it.