Recent content by IrondaleBrewing

I wound up buying a second flush mount bulkhead and got lucky the second one didn't leak. :) Sorry I don't have a better answer than that. My best guess is if you take it apart as outlined in the posts above and retighten things, along with the pipe dope suggestion, that might do the trick. The...

I use a Brew Bag inside the grain basket, works great for me. I mill as fine as my mill will go and typically get around 70% efficiency. I've never had the pump clog.

It's definitely not fancy, hence why I'm adding the pump and accessories, but I've found it to be good for small batches. Brew Bag (https://www.brewinabag.com/) makes a 200 micron bag sized for the Gigawort and in my experience it holds temperature decently; probably will be even better with...

My understanding is on the 35L Brewzilla you can do batches as small as 0.8 gallons -- that's the smallest on true AIOs that I'm aware of. I have a 65L BrewZilla and love it but the smallest batch size on it is 3 gallons I believe. I'm not sure this quite qualifies as an AIO, but I'm in the...

I have a Mighty Mill 3-roller and set it as small as it will go, which apparently is 0.025" even though the adjustment dial markers on the mill don't align with reality. That gives me a crush that sounds similar to what @jtratcliff is describing. I use a 400 micron brew bag and that works well...

Thought this was an interesting idea too -- if you want to add something at the beginning of fermentation that might clog up any of the machinery and it doesn't need to be in there after fermentation is done, put it in the dock:

I just came across this video on YouTube and that's what he does -- hops in small tea bags, and you just throw them in with the yeast before you seal it up: So you can't control the timing of the dry hopping but in that sense it's identical to what you do with the Flash Brewing kits, and...

I just opened my Pinter a few days ago and had the same thought -- particularly if MoreBeer starts doing smaller Flash Brewing kit sizes this could be a pretty killer combo for quick brewing. The other potential challenge with the Pinter might be that with the Flash Brewing kits you dump the...

Thanks for sharing your experiences! I'm gearing up to do some canning for an upcoming competition and have a sacrificial keg ready to go, so this will be super helpful as I try to dial this in. Cheers!

Going to do my first "real" lager in a couple of weeks (Pre-Prohibition Lager), getting a nitro tap going on my kegerator, and will re-brew a couple of recipes from last year to dial things in instead of doing all one-offs. I'll still have a lot of one-offs in the mix though because I love...

Ugh that sucks. Sorry you're having trouble as well. My next run at it my plan is to take the main gas line off the keg (my normal serving pressure of 11 PSI), release the pressure on the keg, and then attach a SodaStream canister with a mini regulator so I can start with a super low pressure of...

Maybe I'm not quite getting what you're saying, but I have a blowoff tube attached to the gas post. Does that setup clog for you on high gravity beers?

Someone in a thread on Facebook about the can filler said they had good luck reducing foam by reducing the CO2 pressure on the keg to like 3 PSI, so hopefully that'll work for me as well.

Well, I got it "working" in the sense that I wind up with full cans of beer and am capping on foam so the end result is good, but there's still a fair amount of foam overflow I need to keep working on. I think the filler itself is doing what it's supposed to do for the most part so I need to...

I didn't use clear bottles, but I did ferment a batch in an uncovered clear Fermonster sitting on a table in my brewery and there was no skunking.