Recent content by DickSledge

I know. I'm mad at me too. My nice expensive Perlick 630SS is now...stained. Oxy soak and scrub brushes aren't doing anything to it. They smell kind of funny, but that could be the "Oxy on metal" smell. Did I fubar my faucet and shank? Will BLC fix it? I'm replacing the line for sure, but...

The AIH instructions said to simmer it for five minutes after adding the sugar, so that's what I did. Well...actually, I think I full-on boiled it for another five minutes, so yeah. I probably caramelized it. That one got dumped. And I wish I would have paid closer attention to your comment...

I'm making a hard seltzer based off the AIH White Claw clone instructions. Brought 2 gallons of water to a boil, added 4 lbs of dextrose and minerals (magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, and baking soda) and boiled again for five minutes. At the end, it was yellow. What happened? Did I...

Sorry for the delay and the thread necro, but here's a pic of what it looks like now (about a month after pitching).

I used Nottingham for the graff (Brandon O's recipe). No fruit or anything; I followed it to the letter. Target mash was 152F, and I think I started around 165, maybe higher. Water around here is pretty hard, so I didn't figure it needed any additives. I did run it through a fairly...

In that event, would this batch be salvageable?

Howdy folks! So I just popped the lid off my first attempt at a real beer (EdWort's Haus Pale, all grain), and the results are not appetizing. Gravity is still at 1.02, and should be at around 1.01. Strong smell of grass and fart. Taste is acrid. Bubbles and some debris floating at the top. It's...

It took some doing, but the two-screwdriver method worked. Thanks!

So I go to hook up the gas on the second CO2 regulator body (Taprite T752HP) and discover that the knob won't work. It turns, but just clicks and won't adjust the pressure. My searches reveal that the plastic red knob is probably stripped and I need a new one. Questions: How do I remove the...

Gearing up to build my keezer next week. I'm psyched! :rockin: Trying to decide what wood to use for the collar. Some here have said that cedar is preferable for the inner collar because of its rot-resistance. Others say to use whatever is cheapest. Honestly, I can't remember any talk about...

The code isn't working for the ITC-308.

I'm thinking about building something similar in the near future. Is the offer to post the start-to-finish pics still good? Pretty please? :D

Thanks, first of all, to this forum and its members for all of the great information, pictures, and tutorials on keezers. I never realized how desperately I needed one. So I'm planning my own keezer build, and I like the simplicity and lower cost of through-collar faucets, and the aesthetics...

I don't know anything about Keezer engineering yet, but that thing looks gorgeous. Bravo!