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Bookmarking to remind myself to look for the next buy...

Just so this thread can have a conclusion, I figured out what the noise was. Turns out that Verizon FiOS has a battery backup unit (BBU) in their fiber modem they place in your house. Mine happens to be in the garage in a small closet in the back that we don't use, thus it was very hard to...

The benefit of a three tier system is to use gravity instead of electric pumps, keeping your brewing simple and cost effective. The benefit of having a three tier system with burners on your HLT and brew kettle is to save your back so you don't have to lift anything.

Take this with a grain of salt: NB/Midwest seems to love taking already available commercial products, putting a trademarked name on them and then selling them at a markup over existing retail. If you want to buy a junk propane jet burner, just get any turkey fryer out there at any local...

I think there was anecdotal talk here and there that a pump could overdrive the assembly and shoot wort out, probably exactly what you're talking about. I didn't experience this myself, just heard talk that it "didn't work well with a pump". Looks like a nice solid upgrade to me...now if I...

There were issues reported when using an autosparge with a pump. Is this still not recommended with the new version?

By the way, bobby's diptubes are here: http://brewhardware.com/valves-69 Note that the diptubes are reversable. You set up the tube one way and it pulls from the center, you set it up the other and it can pull from the side.

Note that I started off my statement with the word "personally" which is usually a qualifier indicating experience relative to the poster. :D Personally, I don't find value with a sight glass on the brew kettle and that comes from actually having one. Heat shields are fine, but they are...

Personally, after installing a sight glass on my boil kettle - i wouldn't do it again. Even with a heat shield, the wort can easily boil out of the glass and make a mess. It's just one more hole in your BK that may potentially leak and there's very limited utility in a sight glass on the BK...

The sub-question should be: If you could only choose between a commercial brewery and your own home brew for the rest of your life, how many seconds would it take you to say homebrew?

Never thought this one out before, I suppose I'd have to hypothetically set aside things like proximity, availability and freshness - otherwise I'd just pick a local brewery. Also, I live 1 mile from a dogfish head alehouse, so dogfish is to me what AB/InBEV is to the rest of the planet - an...

I didn't know about this until I received nearly identical catalogs from both Midwest and NB in the mail today. Same products, same pricing, designed by the same layout artists no doubt... And then there is the fact that both catalogs were sent under the same US Postage permit, so I guess we...

Very tempting, but this weekend is the wife's birthday - not mine, so this would be a hard sell.

It does have a battery backup and it is brand new, so there's something to look into. I did think about that the other day, so I'll check that when I get home.

Still at a loss, but I think it might be coming from my brand new garage door opener. At this point I don't think it's the controller for the keggerator though. I haven't been spending a lot of time in the garage to analyze this properly, but I did just get a new dartboard that I'll be hanging...