Recent content by John Spiegel

Adding a comment here because I just recently tried a coffee and cream ale, but it isn't great right now. I was wondering if it is a style that typically needs to age a bit, sort of like a lagering period, before it's crisp. At the moment, it's a bit yeasty, and there is a coffee flavor, but it...

I thought the purpose of the gas was to infuse the beer with the nitrogen. Nitrogen and CO2 have impart different mouthfeels on the beer. If you carbonate then push with beer gas, you're not actually infusing the nitrogen.

4 in. Diameter x 24 in height. That's good to know. The regulator said it was running low, but I didn't realize there was a difference between the way CO2 and beer gas regulators measured pressure. I also don't super trust the regulator. I've had to replace a part on it already, which is why I...

I am aware of tare weight, but wasn't able to decipher which number on the tank was the weight, as the numbers on the side are not what I'm used to with CO2 tanks.

Hello, I bought a nitro tank secondhand. I believe it's a 10# nitrogen tank. I weighed it at 15# with regulator. I was wondering what the empty weight of a nitro tank was to calculate how much nitrogen I have left, but couldn't find anything online. Thought I'd ask here.

Hello, Recently picked up a nitrogen tank for free from a local homebrewer. He warned me that the screw on the regulator was slightly bent (it was free, so I can't complain). It's the screw which increases or decreases the pressure. I have tried unscrewing it to either replace it or put it in...

Barb from my gas manifold, flare on the quick disconnect.

It is. Mostly because I already replaced a gasket or two that were causing problems and thought I fixed everything.

But would that o-ring wouldn't have been the cause of the leak while the gas line was disconnected, right?

That's the problem, is I unhooked the line and close my fridge door, and went inside, so I wouldn't have heard it anyway.

Took off my liquid and gas posts in order to clean out a finished keg. When hooking the keg back up, I noticed that the gas post was stuck in the "open" position, meaning the piece you pull in order to hook it up to the gas post was locked in the pulled back position. I also notice that my CO2...

Good call on cutting the flaked corn. I like to simplify the grain bill when I can, and that seems like a smart cut.

As an update, I added some fruit to this beer in secondary, and it had some fruit flavor, but not as much as I was hoping. So I added a bit more after carbonating it in a keg. Now it's got the fruit flavor that I was hoping for, but has become a bit too sweet and lost of its tartness. Current...

I guess I'll use this as a test batch then and see how it goes. Hopefully I'll remember to post my results back here for anyone interested.