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I bought a Perlick 2 door direct draw kegerator and am having the same issues. I'm going to try using dampeners on the compressor to get that down. However I did notice noise coming from the cooling coil fans internally. I replaced those junky things with did ultra quiet fans made for server...

Actually, after doing a little research, it appears that this company has a patent pending on their process. I'm not advocating any use of this method or telling you to copy it, but it may be informative. https://uspto.report/patent/app/20190200647#D00000

Here's my results. The left is the HopLark. The right is mine.

I've tried with little success. The clawhammer clone is ok, but I cannot seem to get it to be as clear or delicious as the HopLark one. My clone involved steeping the tea for about 10 minutes and then steeping hops for about 20 minutes after it reached 168 degrees. However, after reading this...

Yeah they definitely had ventilation to that thing. It was huge. And I don't really know if you sparge in a distillery set-up. They actually do all their fermentation along with the grain, so you don't separate it after the mash is done (I think this is what the "sour mash" is). Thank god I...

Brewman, Cool stuff. I guess I am a little confused though on the heat exchanger. Say you are running your wort through the HEX, and heating it with steam. Based on your earlier calculations, the steam is going to heat the wort more efficiently than hot water, perhaps even bringing it to boil...

Are you trolling? What is this?

Oh ok. So if I'm already using the corny for secondary, if I lightly carbonate it, or simply purge the oxygen, do you think that will take care of the problem? I'm sure I splashed it around a little bit.

So I've had two or three beers display the same problem and I'm trying to figure out if I have a contamination problem after primary (or even secondary) fermentation. I always thought it was harder to contaminate a beer after primary due to the alcohol, but I seemed to have accomplished it...

I just read through my last post, and it was less than clear what I was asking. I kant rite real good. What I meant was, with the water hammer problem, wouldn't bringing the steam from the top of the unit and then down to whatever height of the brew stand create the hammer problem in any...

Does the steam come out of the top of the water heater? Won't you also either have to keep then the water heater lower than the rest of the brewstand? I'm trying to figure out how you are going to account for this. I'm assuming the water heater cannot be placed on its side due to the position of...

I guess after further research, these steam generators are for steam baths, not saunas.

I'm starting to try to conceive of my new brewery set up (going to be years until I'm ready to go), but I'm thinking of making a steam infusion mash set up. Because I am less sophisticated in building things and am terrified of accidentally building a bomb out of a corny keg, I'm considering if...

Anyone know if any places are selling Santiam hop rhizomes this season?

So much for sharing........