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Nice! I have a floating dip tube in the keg as well. Looking forward to sanitizing my lines and faucet and drawing that first glass…

Thanks. I will let it ride! As for the setup, it is pretty sweet. Three Nuka-tap faucets, 3 Corny kegs, dual regulator and an expired CO2 tank, which the local paint ball place just swapped out for a current one. All in for about $275.00 so i am not complaining. I did get new hoses, o-rings and...

No worries…this is extremely helpful information!

This is helpful information. But, my question was not about that. I have read bout cold crashing your beer. So, I was not sure if you had to cold crash to clear the beer prior to charging it with CO2. Or, if charging it with CO2 can occur during the cold crashing. Basically, do they have to be...

Thanks…I am a newbie at this…

So, I finished fermenting a German ale. I cleaned and sanitized by corny keg and transferred the beer to it. I have it in the kegerator and connected to the CO2 at 10.5 psi (per the Brewfather calculations). It will be carbonated in approximately 10 day. Was I (or should I) supposed to remove...

Thanks for the info!

Thanks. I am new at the kegging game. Someone outside this forum pointed out to replace that with a two-valve manifold…is that what you are referring to? 15 bucks on Amazon. Makes it a little less clunky.

I scored a nice 3-post kegerator at a yard sale yesterday. Came with everything. 3 Corny kegs, CO2 canister, regulator, hoses and ball lock connectors. (I am replacing all hoses and ball lock connectors with new). However, this is the way the gentleman had his regulator connected. One regulator...

I think you are correct. Your statement and those of previous replies have me thinking that i may have bottled some of these too soon, even though gravity / hydrometer readings were consistent. So, I will look deeper into this.

Yes. I wash them with PBW, rinse Tish hot water, drain in a bottle holder, hit them with Start San before bottling. But, this is not a bottle-to-bottle thing. It is consistent along the entire batch of a beer recipe.

Correct. I get anywhere from 42 to 46 bottles depending on how many 12-oz bottles I use with the 16-oz and 20-oz bottles I have available on-hand. Also, there is some final fluctuation with the amount of finished beer in the bottling bucket. But, I would say the final volume of beer being...

This is a good point. Both the fermenter and bottling bucket have marks. However, I can say that when i bottle my beers, I am off by maybe 3 or 4 bottles per batch. Could that volume inconsistency really make the difference between a bottle bomb and a normal carbed bottle?

Agreed, you pay for the convenience with the carb drops, and honestly. I do not like the idea that they are potentially non-sanitary as opposed to boiling corn sugar in water…although I never had an issue, or heard of an issue, with infections due to carb drop use. As for adding sugar directly...

No inconsistencies amongst bottles of a batch. It is an entire batch issue. I generally do corn sugar in 16-oz of water, boil it, add it to the bottling bucket and then rack the beer on top of it. I have not used carb drops all that often, maybe 3 or 4 batches, but those were porters and stouts...