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I have been getting an off bitter flavor with my kegged beers. Took everything apart and cleaned the tap handles and kegs and all that is left is getting new beer lines. My question is can you use any old 3/16 ID vinyl tubing you can get at home depot or do you need to order it from morebeer or...

Hey just came across this. Looks awesome and wanna try it. Just wondering what you used for carbonation and how much. Looks like you have a nice big frothy head so wondering what you used and how many volumes of CO2.

Grain Bill 9# 2 row .5# CaraMunich .5# Crystal 40L .5# Crystal 60L 4 oz Special B 1# Chocolate Malt .5# Roasted Barley Hops .75 oz Centennial (60 min) .6 oz Cascade (40 min) .5 oz Cascade (20 min) Secondary 1# Toasted raw organic coconut

I am thinking about upgrading my system and building a gravity system to go along with it. I am thinking about going to two 15 gallon kettles but continuing to use a cooler for my tun. My question is how big of a cooler do I need to upgrade to? Would a 60qt cooler work or would it need to be bigger?

2.4 oz of dextrose should get you around 2.4 volumes of CO2 for a 3 gal batch. Tripple style guidelines is 1.9-2.4.

I would go with the 2.5 oz if I was you. With a irish stout you want your volumes of CO2 to be around 1.6 - 2. With 2.5 oz of dextrose you should get about 1.8 volumes of CO2 in a 5 gal batch. If you add the whole 5 oz of dextrose you will get around 2.8 volumes which is out of the style guidelines.

Check out kotmf.com. Under the tools tab they have a Keg Carbonation Calculator and Priming Sugar Calculator. I haven't had to split a brew between keg and bottle but I would imagine adding all your priming sugar into the five gallons and then seperate into 3 gal for keg and 2 for bottling and...