Recent content by Indian_villager

How much chloride are you targeting in your finished beer? Also how soon after kegging are you tasting your beer?

Yep, tried them, ran them for years, once I got my HomeAssistant and ESPHome setups running I built a controller out of all that and I am much happier with the way my setup works. I am now contrapting something using a chiller originally meant for lasers for use with my conical, but we'll deal...

I'm not suggesting that the bottom dump be used for everything. I think it would be great for recirculating and cleaning. I agree with @Bobby_M that highly hopped beers would make this interesting depending on pump choice. I still think a side pick up for the transfer out would be a better...

All of Spike's pictures show the temp probe in the first port when you get into the straight wall of the fermenter. If you have it right above the racking arm you may just be too close to the heater. The ping ponging issue is another reason I punted the inkbird and spike temp controllers. None...

if you are ping ponging, what port do you have your temp probe installed on?

You know I've always thought people were sawing the wrong end off of keggles.

https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/syringe_60_kegdosekit.htm Here you go

What hops were you using in the WP and DH? I remember something from a podcast where the folks from Green Cheek, Fidens, and Russian River were stating that some hops were not as good at maintaining stable haze. The one that stood out to me was Mosaic, on its own mosaic is fairly weak in that...

Second this. I also add 0.2g of kmeta to every IPA keg. The ascorbic and the kmeta are added to boiled and cooled water which is then injected into a purged keg using a syringe and ball lock disconnect.

You comfortable scraping some of that rubber back to see if you can reach a reasonable amount of conductor to solder to?

Agreed. I think the cooling jacket is a bit of a jank addition. On a BK at this scale even insulation in that jacket is jank.

The temperature on the pill has always been dubious. Especially when you are directly connected to it to access the calibration portal. My theory is that the extra workload on the processor heats up the airspace inside the tube and then will throw it off while attempting to calibrate.

Thing to keep in mind is that my process always leaves you with a keg full of star san. The one where it gets pushed out with CO2 is the one that is going to get filled right now. Then I am left with a CO2 purged keg for immediate use, and one keg that is full of sanitizer to push out with CO2...

The strain relief and mounting for the cables out of those heaters are pretty craptastic. Make your own strain relief by zip tieing the cord with a few inches of slack to one of the legs. This way if anyone yanks on the cable the force isn't applied to the junction of the cord and heater. Also...

The way a lot of us have been doing it is to cut the dip tube on the gas post so that it is flush with the inside of the keg. Then we put on a gas qd on the gas post and have the keg that is filling with sanitizer tipped enough so that the gas post is the highest point. This way you can do all...