Recent content by Boise1024

Brewing in the canadian winter, I usually keep a kettle full of hot water to warm up the tank if needed, it's surprisingly effective. A second tank would also do the trick.

As promised here is the view inside the fermenter. As you can see the welds for the handles and legs do show through, but are completely smooth. The is no ridge or ledge and nothing gets stuck in there, you can clean it easily using a wet rag. BTW, that dunkelweizen with wlp300 fermented under...

I'm running a 1650w element in a 20" by 1.5" tri-clover RIMS tube, controlled by an IPB-16. I first tried with a 4500w 240v element at 110v, and brewing outside during canadian winter was stretching it a bit much... I do use your proposed flow diagram, with the temperature probe in a thermowell...

I didn't use any keg lube, it sealed right up without a problem. To answer burdbrew's question, you will absolutely be able to collect yeast even with an adapter. I don't even dump thrub, just open it up with a 2" tc to 1/2" barb after the 90 elbow, I put a small piece of sanitized hose so I...

On mine the welds are extremely smooth on the inside, and flush with the walls. I'll post pics next time I open it up. In fact, all the welds were some of the best welds I've ever seen.

The only IPA I did I added the dry hop charge with the yeast, and then a second dry hop in the keg. I would guess that because the beer is carbonated while fermenting, any addition (hop, herbs, coconut, cocoa nibs, ...) would create a gigantic explosion of froth from the co2 coming out of...

That's right. The PRV will usually start releasing pressure at 12psi. During very vigorous fermentation it will go up to about 15 psi, you can hear the constant hiss of co2 escaping.

You have a leak. I can carbonate + serve about 8 kegs from a 5lb tank. I've had a very frustrating to find leak from a secondary regulator one time. Try to isolate each part of the system and test methodically.

I use the stock PRV from the start. The pressure keeps the kraeusen down, even with 11-12gal in the fermenter. However in my more recent wlp300 batch the fermentation got so vigourous that some kraeusen went into the prv. Didn't seem to affect it's operation, just made a mess (was dripping on...

Mine arrived in perfect shape, no scratching. First brew in I noticed a pinhole leak at a weld in the lid, I was slowly loosing pressure. Got solved quickly, without issue. So far I'm 3 brews in, all under pressure and with an inkbird controlled aquarium pump in a water/ice bath to cool it. It...

Just used 1728 too, it went through a 1.060 wort in 3 days, currently at 1.012. That was at 15 celcius (59f) under 13psi of pressure. If you fermented warmer and at atmospheric pressure, I'm not too surprised with your results. As already said, make sure to leave it some time on the cake to...

I have a Brew Bag, worked great for the last 40 5 gallon batches. You do have to be careful to tie the bag to the outside of the kettle so it won't fall in when you add the grains. After about 40 batches there is quite a lot of wear and tear on the brew bag, seams are perfect but there is...

Got huge sulfur when I did a dubbel with it, with a lot of fusels. I was fermenting quite hot - 75 I think. If you do use it, be sure to pitch cool. Used it another time in a trippel, got some spiciness but not much else.

I would be concerned more about the remaining bitterness/hoppiness on the yeast than viability. I've had a problem in a porter before (stuck fermentation) where I had to add US-05 slurry from an IPA, it gave it a subtle hoppiness that I didn't much care for... I would think the problem would be...

Hanglow, I've used 1,4g calcium sulfate and 2,8g calcium chloride in the mash. This brings me to 59ppm calcium in the mash. Since I brew BIAB, that is for the whole volume of water. Nicklawmusic, I've had good succes repitching with active US-05, I have to think you should see success with S-04...