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I'm not sure how I did it but when I turn the system off and break the seal on the cam lock gravity pulls the glycol back up the lines and I get maybe a couple teaspoons worth that I just catch with a rag. I think its because my resovior sits below the fermenter coil and is much bigger volume (5...

I have camlock fittings right on the lid where my hoses from the cooling system come in. I just DC them and then put the little camlock plugs in both the male and female ends. I'm running a glycol mix as well. It letse move hoses around without spillage as well as turn the lid upside down etc...

Cool! I'm jealous. Central Texas winters are still pretty warm. One hint. I got lazy with a batch and didn't do a really thorough job cleaning and sanitizing the fermenter lid that my coil is mounted to. I then had to dump a batch because it got infected. I'm always very good about the fermenter...

I was doing a bunch of reading a while back. I'm curious about the temp transfer through the wall of the plastic conical. I chose a SS in the middle of mine instead. I can't lager but can keep even a big Belgian around or below 65 degrees during the first week. I hope your system works. Please...

Whoa you really churched it up. I have a simple ranco, a pond pump with a as coil in the middle of the wort. Nice. I'd like too see pictures.

So you spent 60$ bucks more for 3 from one distributer to another mehhhh. You're going to love these. I'm running two 15 gallon conicals . One at room temp with the commercial stand (need to weld longer legs on it) the other has a cooling system in it. With the pump lines fitting and Craig's...

Yea spratsmarter has them in stock. I ordered from rural king and got the same. Spratsmarter was a couple bucks more but had it in a week. This was about 6 weeks ago.

DAM IT!! I guess I will have to go throw up the 200+ gallons I've made and enjoyed in mine. And someone should call the brewery in Ca that has been using 200 gallon ones with over 90 succesful batches and tell them to recall all that beer.

I used a Kolsch yeast, Kept it around 65 degrees and it turned out very mellow but still a good beer!! Ed's recipes are very solid and I haven't had a bad one yet. Very easy to do, play with, and substitute.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SVF-Stainless-1-1-2-Economy-Ball-Valve-REV6666TTSE15-/390534056628?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5aeda4cab4 When I priced this vs PVC valve at Lowes it wasn't that much more. Its so solid I'll be using it for the next 10 years at least. I did a bunch of reading and...

I initially bought all the stuff to put a racking arm in mine but never installed it. I just pop the top and siphon out of it. One less defect on the smooth insides. Plus if its time to rack it the lid is coming off to clean it anyway. There are several places that sell a big 1/2 ID threaded...

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