Recent content by Driddy

What are you feeding it? using whole wheat flour will produce a more sour tang then using 100% AP flour.

If the rubber portions come off, just glue back down with "Gorilla Glue" and you'll be fine. I had a few "bargain" kegs with loose rubber tops that I repaired in this fashion and they are still solid after several years.

I m interested in the sous vide cooker

Oh, also try pumping cold air from the bottom of the freezer directly into one of the beer cave ports. Again, you'd have to move one of the beverage lines. I can post you pics of how I made a manifold for air to my taps if you wish. Just let me know. You seem like you could figure out a way...

First of all....amazing build. I love the attention to detail. You are obviously a craftsman! As far as cooling the lines/"beer cave. I'm not sure how you have your fans set up for flow but I had a similar problem with my set up. First, you do need to move the cold air from the bottom...

Ahhhh....there's the missing component!! Atmospheric Pressure! Should have been obvious that when my pressure gauge is reading 0 there is still 14.7 psi on he liquid! Classic example of "not seeing the forest for the trees"! Doug293cz, Thanks for you input and knowledge. I will just put...

I've seen the recommendations regarding carbing with pure CO2 then dispensing with nitro mix. The problem is the charts would have me set the pressure at -5.4 Deg F.(that's a negative!) or a temperature that's too high...in the 60 Deg F range. So even if I did carb at 60 Deg, to get the 1...

I am currently prepping my first Nitro Stout. The system is set up with beer gas and regulator and what I believe to be the right length 3/16" beer line (8'). Specifically my question is the method to force carb the stout to 1 to 1-1/2 volumes of CO2. I'm just not getting the "science". I...

Safale-05 1 liter starter

here in lies the problem. The flavor profile is not what was expected. Although, i was not expecting overwhelming honey aroma and flavor, I expected a little residule sweetness. This "leans" towards, perhaps a touch sour note....certainly not overwhelming. At first I attributed this to the...

Recently brewed a simple honey wheat beer with a grist of 50% wheat and 50% malt. The mash ended up at a slightly lower temp than I was shooting for at 147 deg. F. Added to the boil in the last 20 minutes was 1/2 lb of clover honey. O.G. ended up at 1.052, just what I was shooting for. The...

I'm in.......good luck everyone.

Ok....building my HERMS system. What are the advantages/disadvantages of small diameter(<=3/8") copper tubing v.s. larger diameter (1/2"=<) copper tubing used as the heat exchanger? In addition, how about length? The pre-fabricated exchangers seem to be in the 25' range. If I went with...

I have my Ranco set up with removable probes. When I disconnect them, it dispalys EP as yours does. My guess is that it is not "seeing" the probes.

Very briefly, I am building a brew system similar to a B3 1550. 3 tier, 3 low pressure propane burners controlled by solinoids. Currently using a 12 gallon cooler MT, 10 gallon HLT and a 15 gallon BK. The control panel consists of 2 Ranco 1100 single stage ETC's and various switches to...