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a spunding valve would allow you to set a target pressure, and maintain that. E.G. you could prime with enough sugar for 20 psi, set the spunding valve for 15psi, and you'd be set. This is one example: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/spunding-valve-idea-295190/ Just google spunding...

this would double my yearly income!

Hangar bolts would let you mount your hardware inside without removing insulation. You would just have to drill pilot holes through the insulation and into the collar. Then you would drive the hangar bolts into the holes by jamming two nuts against each other on the machine thread end. Just...

Hard to tell from the last Pic, but did you leave a gap for cooling between the plywood cladding around the freezer and the skin of the freezer? I believe (but could be wrong) that modern chest freezers shed waste heat via their outer shell. I'd hate for the compressor to burn out after doing...

I have been trying to remember where I've seen tons of "mash basket" experimentation. Thought about it off and on all day, did a little HBT search -- and he's already posted. Look here.

I do prefer the wet method; I use starsan. Wet sanitizers give a certain peace of mind. However, in pinch I have also used heat sterilization: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/dry-heat-sterilizing-bottles-54497/ I found 9 inch foil squares in a dispenser box at a bulk club, and I cut...

I'm planning a 2 vessel electric brewery, and I like the idea of bottom drain keggles for the MLT and the BK. I would like the BK drain to be "filtered" to a finer degree than a FB normally could accomplish on it's own. I was wondering if placing a splatter screen below a FB in a electric BK...

I'd like a sticky in the beer beginners --- The best beer brewing books to read, and then some other books to read..... I can't read this forum all the damn time!