Recent content by Ewelady

going to take me time... grandkids coming for a visit and then I will have to catch up on everything and then I've got 130 lambs to be born. I hope I can get enough beer brewed to get me though all this. But it might be a while before the z gets used.

Well the stainless was on the right so after some measurements I swapped it with the left and it's still the right that's just a little too tight. And no way can I get the screw in. I grabbed the keg seal from the Pico when I tried the foam catcher... it wasn't going in and now that I've tried...

Never had a Zymatic only the Pico so the bands made no sense at all! And I agree, the lids are so tight and it's so awkward to get them out that was the last place I would have thought to use them.

Me too! Same batch of stuff. Got the bag yesterday and today I put the machine together and got it someone running. What the heck are the little thin rubber bands for? Where do we use the foam catching gadget? Do they seriously call that a manual? I want to brew beer not email with a million...

curious... are we all still brewing? I am, drinking Amber Waves, cold crashing Truck Stop, fermenting Dinghy Blond (for bottling) and Moses something or the other which I had to add dates to and didn't get a good seal on the keg afterwards so it sucked air the whole time it cooled down. :(

I do when there seems to be a lot of beer in the hop pack or in the step filter. But I don't bother if it's half a cup or less. Not worth risking contamination for small amounts. can't help you with the other question but post it on the Facebook Picrobrewers page, Denny posts there. Although...

nope, Osiris Farmhouse Ale. I'd prefer them sewed shut! Had glue fail on to many of them and I inspect them carefully before I put them in. I've even stapled them shut when I felt they might fail. Cleaning grain out of the darn machine is a pain.

when did they start sewing the packs shut? That should work better then glue but I was surprised when I opened a box today.

months and months of brewing and I had a problem today! The drain in the stepfilter fell apart. I always flush water through it when I finish brewing and the little x part that held the spring in disintegrated. No effect to the beer because I was just going to run the rinse. Learned there is a...

Thanks JRB, I will get a set to have on hand. Just didn't think they would last this long. Didn't think my little tank of CO2 would last this long either. Took it in last week for a refill and he nicely told me I still had half tank! And then he showed me how to read the code/tare weight on the...

Years ago I brewed but never kegged only bottled. Now that I have used kegs I will never go back except for special occasions where I want to take bottles somewhere. My question, how often do you change the seals/washers on the keg posts and the tubes? I've brewed over 50 times now and I have...

just logged in to see if you all are reading what I am reading...4 bucks a pack... I am assuming the current kit contains all the non throw away items and you won't get them with the 10 pack? Am I right? So the 50 bucks right now gets you 20 dollars worth of boxes and 30 dollars worth of...

I already shook it. :( It worked for 2 days... I am sure it's the battery. It's the original and I can't remember how many times it's been in use. But I have 3... I was thinking 10 days but the heat went off in this room last night and that dropped the temps so my beer got chilled and so did the...

I feel for you! I never had a problem with the thermoblock but the shuttle pump was replaced twice! And then it was determined that nothing was wrong with the shuttle pumps that we had replaced, once by me and once by them having it shipped back. And then the third time they just sent a new...

Don't worry, they will replace the Pak and if you continue to have problems they will replace the Pico. I know, because I am on my second one which is operating perfectly! The first one was a lemon.