Recent content by bikedave99

Well, i sprung a leak at my cobbled together 3-1 connector. I tried once to reflow the solder to get it to seal but it wasn't going to happen. So, I got a 3/4" copper pipe cap and drilled three holes just smaller than the tubing OD. I used a step bit and went really easy as I was getting close...

There are no words. Did you make the manifolds? Out of what?

Looks good man, way to overcome! As far as draining is concerned since you have inlets both top and bottom gravity won't work with you too well. If you have an air compressor, I would tip it over its side and feed it as much air as you can. As a tip, and may you already know this... be sure and...

Haha, just did this last night! Kegged up 10 gallons of 3-crop threw it in the keezer and dislodged the temp probe. Thankfully I check this morning... why so much frost in my keezer... Wasn't frozen yet.

Man it’s nothing... I’m constantly agitating the wort or the chiller as it is in use so nothing precipitates on the coils. All I had to do was dunk it in a bucket of water a few times and there wasn’t a spec of hop material left on it. There honestly really wasn’t any gunk on it coming out of...

It is a pain! I started by forming the transition first. I stuck 3 steel dowels about the same size as the copper tubing into the fitting and then hammering it to fit tighter if that makes sense. Then I cleaned and fluxed the fire out of it, stuffed fluxed pieces of copper wire in the gaps I...

Alright, tested the above rig for the first time yesterday. All that copper sure took anger out of the boil when I first plopped it in. On to the good stuff. It took me about 9 minutes to take 12 gallons of boiling wort down to 70 degrees with my ~50 degree groundwater. I had it pulling off my...

Here's my clone chiller made from 50' of clearance 3/8" tubing from Lowes and then 20' from my last inadequate immersion chiller:

I have 11.5 gallons of this bubbling away currently with 34/70 (I had a slug of it available from a recent 3 crops batch). I took my final SG reading after the boil and had a nice shock: 1.044.... I went back over my grain bill and realized I left out 6lbs of base malt. I was using up the last...

Hopefully you have figured this out by now, but the toasted grain is a base malt in Bru'n water, just has the Lovibond cranked up a touch.

Here's how I modified it last time and thought it worked awesome (10gal batch): 2 Row Pale Malt 10.0lbs Oven Toasted 2-row 2.0lbs (275 degrees for 35 minutes) Flaked Maize 4.0lbs Minute Rice 1.0lb Crystal 60 4oz Mashed 151 60 minute boil 1.75oz of Styrian Bobek at 60 minutes...

I have thought my batch was a little thin at various times of its keg life, but right now, probably 6wks in the keg, I am reallllllly enjoying it. Not over the top in any sense, just a really nice drinker.

This is basically what I do, I put a bag in by rectangular cooler with a valve and mash in there. I do leave on my SS braided hose filter though. I pulled it out one time thinking it was unnecessary, however my filter fabric and grain got sucked in the valve. It seems you need to be able to keep...

Juicy Sundrops, AG. Thanks!

The first time I brewed this recipe I was in a rush to deliver for an event. I pitched a starter on brew day, it was finished fermenting 5 days later. I started crashing it then, transferred to a keg on day 6, set CO2 to 30psi for 24hrs then turned it down to 12. The keg was served and floated...