Recent content by aussieskier

Ought to be around 209F, depending on the actual barometric pressure. Just an FYI for when you check your new thermo :).

Remember to check your elevation. Water boils at slightly lower temps based on how far you are from sea level.

This is a great idea! Too bad it is right in the middle of our pumpkin patch season here on the farm or I would bring my three tier along! Best of luck in finding some help, I am sure there are plenty people around this area that will help you out. Maybe call a few of the LHBSs in Portland or...

I have done a few 10 gallon batches (~12 gallons preboil on my system) with mine and have had no problems. If you put the bung in from the inside out, the liquid actually helps hold the bung in. I would not use a wood bung for a boil kettle because of the possibility of infection coming from...

They work fine. I just use a silicone wine bung pushed in the from the inside out and haven't had a problem. They are a little more awkward to work with and require you to add your own handles, but they work decently well.

Definitely green apple smell. This beer was my 8th batch and all the rest had similar process and water. As for temp it could have been slightly higher during peak of fermentation, but the ambient temp was 65 +/- 1 in the basement where I ferment. Temperature was the one place that I thought I...

I brewed a batch of Edwort's PA a couple months back now. Nottingham yeast, temp: ~65 Primary: 4 weeks FG: 1.012 Secondary 8 weeks and counting. When I racked to secondary, with intention of waiting for a keg to open up, I noticed a smell of apples, which I thought might be...

Alrighty, I think I got the problem sorted out. Seems it was probably a bit of both the line temp and a leak around the diptube o-ring. My first test it poured much better than last night but there were still some air gaps and a bit too much foam. I took off the out post on the keg and...

I am using 3/16th hose and it is all coiled on top of the keg. I will have to try it this morning to see if letting the hose cool over night since messing with it helped. Yooper, wrapping around the keg sounds like a good way to handle the excess line. We will see what some testing yields...

I could understand dropping the pressure if this was beer. Correct me if I am wrong, but if I want to keep the root beer at around 4 volumes of CO2, dropping the pressure to 15psi would make the CO2 slowly come out of solution. This was the impression I was under anyways :confused: Thus...

I have spent the past two days searching around for a solution to this problem and have yet to find a fix so I thought I would make a post about my specific problem. I have a keg of root beer that at ~38F and set at 40psi to carb up. In an attempt to balance out the system so I can serve...