Recent content by fofusak

Well, the steel QD arrived and the veredict is.... It sort of fits... It falls short by a liiiiiiiittle bit. I got pissed off so I decided to hammer the insulation on the lid. So that I'd make a dent, or screw it up and make a new lid. Now it fits perfectly. I'm not proud but it fits :)

I bought it ~2 years ago on black friday. It's "Haier 7.1 Cu. Ft. Capacity Chest Freezer"

I got my chest freezer delivered at home for $160. And my wife would've tried to get me to abandon the kegging idea if I had suggested a fridge in the living room

The metal QD arrive on Tuesday. If they don't help me I'll look for a pin lock. Good suggestion!

This might work very well... I actually want to change some trims, so I could sand and use those!

Awesome! And they even have free returns! I think I only need 1/4", I'll try with these and if they don't do the work I'll continue trying other options!

Yes, this might actually work. In fact I have always a carbed water keg in there. That means I always have a keg in there that doesn't move and always gets water. I'll look into how much I'd need to cut and if its feasible. Thanks

I'm finally ready to public shame my own DIY skills, or lack of them. Ok, no, my lack of planning. It all started when I purchased my first house. I was going to finally move out of the apartment and have space for kegs! (I hate bottling with all my soul) I found a very nice resource in this...

The first time it happened I was surprised too. IIRC I left it for 3 weeks, then I asked here where I was told that it happens. I just shook it and down it went. Nowadays most of my batches go through the same. Although admittedly with a think layer of krausen, whereas the first time it was...

money shot of propery fermenting beer! It's the best description I've ever read. to the OP: As you've been told, it's fine. If it doesn't go down in a few days, I normally swirl it a little just to drop it down like in the 1 week mark. I know some people say not to disturb the yeast, but I...

I kegged mine quickly and I just found out that it definitely benefitted from conditioning. I mentioned it was a good beer but not stellar, now I love it (and my friends do too). To second people on the nutrients, I pitch most of my trub into the fermenter, so that may have helped me to get...

I love my bag in my mash tun, RM-MN pretty much summed it up. But... straight to the point I wanted to make: A solution that works great at small scale, doesn't necessarily scale well. So if you aim to produce tens of BBLs at a time, you can either try to imagine problems at that scale, like...

AWESOME! I'll DM you :D Thanks, and now that you mention you're at Kenmore, your name is incredibly great :)

I recently used a Kveik and it seemed exactly like that after an hour. I thought too it was an infection. I had never seen anything like that before. I can happily say it just looks weird, but you can move the wort and that strange krausen-like thing will drop, it's just yeast. The beer is very...

I've been reading on the great prowess of kveik strains lately. At first I just thought it was just a overhype. I went to the LHBS and they were out of a yeast I wanted (I don't even recall which one it was) but they offered me Imperial Loki. Supposedly to be the super cool thing and what not...