Recent content by Charlie139

Here’s a made in China clone but it ain’t for sale from my little brewery. No local brew shops around these parts🤦‍♂️

I bought mine from Qingdao China. I live 90 minutes away. If you’re interested I can query the guy that sold them to me to see if he would ship to Europe...payment can be problematic. My wife handled the payment and shipping details and the nozzle works well. Let me know if you’re interested...

Supplemental...my final volume was way short of target. I’ll have to do some homework and see if I screwed up the mass or liquor or grain or both or whether something else is going on. I’ll get back with more info...

Hi folks... I tried out my condenser today for the first time It more or less did the job as expected. My SG dropped 2 degrees of brix over 80 minutes. I turned up the propane until steam started escaping from in between the tack welds on 4 inch hop addition ferrule on my boil kettle lid. I ran...

So I’ve been working on a lager fridge made from plywood, styrofoam and fiberglass. I felt it was necessary to make this since there was a line up for kegs and conical fermentors in my beer display fridge. So I built this thing in the garage, hauled it up to the 8th floor (by elevator) then...

Thanks ten80. I’m looking into a remedy that will incorporate your advice. Greatly appreciated. C

Thanks for your advice Brundog and ten80. I hadn’t considered that valid point. Things are challenging over here. I live on the top two floors of an 8 story apartment. The municipal water pressure fluctuates a lot and disappears altogether for hours at a time. Usually on weekends. My cunning...

I got everything up and running today. I’ll try and calibrate the flow rate tomorrow. Should be able to brew something by the weekend. Thanks again for the idea.

Got some parts today. My Chinese buddies are saying “it’s so small”.

Hey guys. I just wanted to say “thanks” for posting this information. I was about to get kicked out of the upstairs apartment because of water damage to the “unfinished” ceiling from brewing beer. I haven’t fully read the entire thread but I started making a solution to the steam problem based...