Recent content by hagmanngr

How long does one wait to do a forced diacetyl test. Once fermentation is over? I'm doing a beer with a large dry hop and the instructions say to do one, just not when.

Racking arm arrived today! Your transfer system sounds awesome, wish I could try it but I'm filling 5 gallon kegs and my out post is about the height of the CF5 port, so no gravity for me. But I have a couple questions for curiosity sake: 1. Pressure fermentation (which Spike seems to...

Thank you for both of your replies. Despite spending literally a grand on the setup, I missed the racking arm. I expect that will solve my problems along with the tips you provided. Back to the Spike site I go.

I had it around 5psi, racking arm all the way open.

I'm struggling with closed pressure transfers on my CF5 (I apologize as I'm sure this is covered somewhere in the 67 pages of this topic, but I couldn't find it. Could be I'm a poor searcher) I've done them successfully on my SS Brewtech, but I never get a flow going on the CF5. First I...

I make sure to pull mine backwards when I need to move it. Seems to want to tip forward more than back

Thanks. Shortly after I posted the other pump came on and the light came on, so I think you are spot on about it being the pump. Anyone ever remove / replace a pump from one of these? As noted in other posts, MoreBeer has zero information on these devices.

I have a Icemaster Max 2. I had the left pump turned off a while and now I'm trying to cold crash, but it the pump won't come on. The right side is working nicely, and I notice that one light is lit in the top left corner of the left / non-working side. As the manuals are awful, I have no...

Thanks for the replies. Cleaning between batches is exactly what I'm talking about. The FTSs coils can get pretty nasty. A quick blowout with CO2 is probably what I will try.

Do people just normally dump the extra amount?

Forgive me for being slightly off topic, but I have a question about recovering glycol. I am chilling with an FTSs and a cooler and am looking at the Icemaster. I'm wondering how to neatly recover the glycol from the FTSs coils once fermentation and crashing are done.

You can do 10 gallon batches in it, but you cant do big beers in it. They have a chart on their website that shows batch sizes, so check it out. Two warnings that I have on these. First, the 20 gallon pot is enormous and extremely heavy.You don't want to be moving that around a lot. I...

Does anyone know how much capacity is lost to the false bottom? Or does that conical shape somehow work to get you the full 10 gallons for the mash?