Recent content by joeinbend

@cwringer I'm with you. Filtering gives a polished, finished product, beyond all the normal clearing and fining that we do anyway. Source? I've heard this stated anecdotally, but never seen it empirically proven or quantified.

The issue with gravity feeding through a filter is it takes a very long time, and as beer leaves the vessel, it is replaced by air. I believe (maybe overkill, admittedly) that you ought to backfill that air space with CO2. Possibly do-able, however I've had poor results with this. My...

@Jonnyrotten -- I think your pump would work just fine. A nice slow and consistent pressure through your filters should be fine, no real opportunity to introduce oxygen. Regarding the CO2 method I use, I have a 5# CO2 in my garage chest freezer 'keezer', where I ferment, cold crash, and use for...

Good looking beer @FVilatoro ! I agree that you can get a perfectly clean 'clear' beer with proper cold crashing (which I do) and finings, be it Irish Moss (which I do), gelatin (which I don't do), or other methods. The one thing microfiltering does that no other fining process can, is strip the...

+1 to that. Many don't understand the importance of lagering below serving temperature is critical to a clean-looking beer. Lagering is not just for "lager" style beers! If this is news to anyone, I recommend reading up on how temperature affects the ability of a liquid to hold dissolved solids...

Sounds like your running your autosiphon / racking cane too close to the bottom of your carboy, and sucking up a bunch of solids. If you're not already, it sounds like you could benefit from cold-crashing, and racking to a clean carboy, cold-crashing again for another 24 hours, before kegging...

That will work! I have a pair of these for half the price, but need to buy fittings. Many years ago I bought in bulk a 50 pack of 5 micron and 50 pack of 1 micron filters (individually wrapped) at a great price. As you said, they are single use.

Hey guys, throwing my two cents in the ring here. All grain brewer for the last 10 years, and I have microfiltered every batch, through a double filter: first chamber is 5 micron, second is 1 micron. Fun fact: brewers' yeast cells are roughly 3 micron in size. Why do I filter? Many years ago...

Hey guys, I'm recently up and running on RaspberryPints, and this is really great! I have one piece I'm struggling with, regarding the solenoid activation. I find that no matter what settings I use, the Keg icon in the webUI always shows with a "Red X" in the corner of it. I did some...

Hey JDiz, I do use it still as my two corny-keg fridge, but I did not end up drilling it for a tap; I just run a short cobra tap on each keg inside. I've had this fridge many years and it's still running well, quiet, and holding consistent temps.

Hey guys, it's been quiet in this thread lately; how's your projects coming along? Any headway on the force sensors or flow sensors? I see on the Seeduino link earlier in this thread (here it is again..) under the Q&A tab, page 6 of the questions... someone specifically asks if it is food...

*bump* anyone?

Hi guys, I recently picked up a really nice U-Line under-cabinet fridge for my kegerator. It nicely holds 2 kornys, and has room in the back shelf for yeast samples and my CO2. Perfect setup! My next step is to round it out with a tap tower. The last thing I want to go is go nuts with the hole...

Ooh..ooh..!! I want one!!