Recent content by Arbe0

What Spunding valve do you use and are you happy with it?

Just dowloaded the list, Very nicely put together. Thanks

I have Gordon Strongs book aand have even brewed a few of his recpies. I have as great sucess with those recipies following the RO water and brewing salts to add and adding darker grains at the sparge. Today I am using Aurora Colorao water (award winning water) and one of the best to brew with.

a note: crystal and roasted barley will be added about 10 minutes before the sparge. This is the way I normally use the dark grains. In that the only grain I am mashing is the maris otter and others like i said 10 minues while 168 F mash out and sparge I was just wondering if that is the way to...

I have been looking at a chart that includes Diastatic power of grains. I am wondering if it has no Diastatic power if those are the ones that would be steeped in an all grain brew. For example I have a recipe that in only maris otter with Crystal 40, Crystal 120 and roasted Barley. If the...

this is how I solved the problem: bought a new Blichmann HERMS coil and installed it , took apart and cleaned all pumps, ball valves, hoses etc with PBW then used Starsan to sanatize . the ball valve in the boil pot and the pump after that had lot of nasties in them but now are squeaky clean and...

Looking at the one I have, it must be a Blichmann so I am ordering one today

yes I always ran boiling water though all the hoses pots Herms coil and chiller into the sink; every time I brewed right after it went into the fermenter.

ok.. this is what I have done. In the past after every brew I used boiling water to go though every pumps, pots, and coil right after the brew was in the fermenter. My thought was all the wort was still watery and it shouldn't dry in the coil. If I got grains in there (which i never thought I...

I have a HERMS coil that everytime I clean it lateley or brew with it there seems to be a lot of what looks like grain flake residue that come out of it. I clean it every time after a brew with PBW and sanatize with Starsan, I have had this for many years but in the last few months this has...

ready to keg an irish stout. would love to put one in a keg..

looking for suggestions for a small HERMS coil for a 10 gallon pot.

Irish red ale, needs a keg

My club was given a 30 gallon Sqarrell (HOME | Squarrel). Not sure how to clean this. I have a chugger pump 7GPM, is there a CIP ball that would work with that pump to clean a 30 gallon Squarrel? Looking for any other ideas from all those Brew Brains out there.

checking out craftbeerpi, haven't bought anything yet, just checking it out. Looking at the wiring diagram at "craftbeerpi.com/hardware" there is an extension board below the diagram. Is this extension board needed? Can the respberry pi 4 handle the load?