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  1. Bobby_M

    An appeal to Northeast U.S. Homebrewers

    I did, and I explained that we were having an issue with it for a while. It's fixed now along with better discounts. I probably wouldn't pay 92 either. There's always going to be a vendor a bit closer.
  2. Bobby_M

    An appeal to Northeast U.S. Homebrewers

    In the spirit of what this thread is about, I still felt compelled to look it up. I saw another post of yours where you said you're from Southern California and that would explain why shipping 60 pounds 2700 miles would be expensive. That's why I was targeting the N.E. end of the country in this...
  3. Bobby_M

    An appeal to Northeast U.S. Homebrewers

    Rather than speculate, give me your city/zip and I'll calculate the current shipping cost via UPS for a sack of grain. There was a couple month span where the UPS rates were not being sent to my website properly so it may have been in that period of time. We also just got much better discounts...
  4. Bobby_M

    Need to go electric...

    Brother, this is a brewing forum and you're getting very heavy for what was a light hearted sentiment. Time for a beer I THINK.... I don't know for sure and I'm not accusing you of needing one.
  5. Bobby_M

    Need to go electric...

    And yet if you find yourself brewing on an electric system some time in the future, regardless of how that might happen, you too will wonder why you waited.
  6. Bobby_M

    Need to go electric...

    The solo controller looks cool and wins in the VERY SIMPLE category if you consider it a pro and not a con. There are couple features that are missing (for me) that took it out of the running for my system.
  7. Bobby_M

    Need to go electric...

    Unfortunately it's one of those things people have to experience to understand. Someone will read through this thread and see your post and they'll still think "nah, not for me". Electric brewing is transformative. FYI, if you had the brass to put the GFCI and circuit in, you may be ready to...
  8. Bobby_M

    Multiple Concurrent Small Batch Brewing

    I think it's going to be Brew Matrix or Micro Brew Matrix. Something about including the size of the batches sticks to me.
  9. Bobby_M

    Multiple Concurrent Small Batch Brewing

    Tetra means four. Tetris is a play on that because each piece is made of four squares. Picobrew Zymatic was a play on Zymurgy and Automatic. Zymatrix was an attempt at Zymergy and Matrix. I'd be more concerned about brand confusion is I was actually trying to make a product. Moot anyway since...
  10. Bobby_M

    Foaming after a few days to a week

    Don't try flow controlling on the way out of the keg. Maintain back pressure in the lines.
  11. Bobby_M

    What water to use to brew

    Assuming extract brewing or extract with steeping grains, I highly recommend starting with distilled water. There are minerals in the extract and you won't have to worry about chlorine or doubling up on mineral content.
  12. Bobby_M

    Trouble with DuoTight system

    Flow control QD and flow control faucet combined is creating a hectic turbulent flow. Combine that with running the keg at too low a pressure, the Co2 is cracking out of solution. If you're going to use a flow control faucet, you need to eliminate the flow control QD. Raise the pressure to the...
  13. Bobby_M

    Multiple Concurrent Small Batch Brewing

    How about Tetra Zymatrix?
  14. Bobby_M

    Multiple Concurrent Small Batch Brewing

    The project has been long in the making but I'm getting really close to firing up my first four way batch. I have the best intentions to make every batch a piece of youtube content. I'm not going for ultra production value, but part of my incentive to putting all this work into brewing four...
  15. Bobby_M

    How to lower FG on big beers?

    Remove the lactose. It's causing the brick wall that you are trying to break through. And its gross too.
  16. Bobby_M

    Mash tun too big??

    I read back what I wrote and wanted to clarify something. When you hear "pre-heat", I know a lot of people think of it as adding water to heat it up and then dump that out and start fresh with strike water. I don't know why anyone does that because it's a waste of water and time. Whatever your...
  17. Bobby_M

    Adding A Second Direct CO2 Line

    https://www.cryofx.com/co2-tank-splitter.html $40. Sure, the other way is 1/4" NPT LHT x CGA-320 male thread adapter but I've never seen that. The lack of solutions really just highlights how rare it is for someone to want to split the tank pressure
  18. Bobby_M

    Mash tun too big??

    This is true, and I would just clarify that you can get the strike water into the tun well in advance of the grain so you can let the tun take all the heat it wants. I also recommend either tilting the tun to expose the upper walls to the hot water as air is not a great conductor of heat. When...
  19. Bobby_M

    An appeal to Northeast U.S. Homebrewers

    Thanks! Even better, we refunded 30% of what you paid for shipping because we were able to find a cheaper method. It doesn't always work out that way, but we have no intention of profiting on shipping.
  20. Bobby_M

    Is it just me or are bottled conditioned Homebrew better than kegged?

    I have had the same Belgian Quad poured side by side with bottle conditioning and keg carbonation and that particular beer was better out of the bottle. In this case, and knowing the brewer's skillset and process, I can't conclude any of it had to do with oxygen exposure. The argument about a...
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