Recent content by joshuadbak

I sanded my lid top flat wth a block of wood and progressively finner sandpaper. I also use a bit of Teflon tape on the threads....I always have vigorous bubbling but use hydrometer to know when beer is finished.

12 days in on a creme of 3 Cropsish...but I took the grain bill times 1.25 and used cluster hops at 60, Irish moss at 15, tetnang at 10 and a tiny bit of cascade at flame out. Used washed notty from my last batch. Already dumped the collection ball once. Notice the yeast is dropping out nicely.

I tap on the sides with both hands at the same time.....open like a slap.....once a day or so.... after the first week. There is a little bit of yeast clinging to the sides when I rack, but not very much. I usually do 6 or 6.5 gallon batches. Before I shoot it to the keg...I usually fill a...

Did my dump. 90% trub. A little bit of yeast but not worth trying to wash out. It's safale 05 anyways. Did notice that 15 mins. after my airlock started bubbling slowly sgain.

Used to use buckets myself. Now I'm saving up for another of these!

Yeast!

One week in and the bubbler has all but stopped.....yeast has dropped out with trub below in the bottle. Time to dump the trub???

I cleaned my threads with a little sand paper folded over several times to get the proper thickness. There was a lot of extra plastic material left where the molds seperate. After that I put a little vegetable oil on the threads and screwed the lid on?off about 20 times without the gasket in...

I was able to move mine around full on the stand. I will probably add handles to the sides to make it easier....but I was able to go down several stairs and move it over 50 ft. It's cake walk with 2 people....doable with one.

Ace of Spades black IPA started today. Built a quick easy stand out of scrap 2X4's. I am going to build a ferm chamber similar to the son of fermentor to fit right around this but it is about 66 degrees in the basement right now so I figured I'd get a batch going. I found that a fine sand...

Glad to here they were on top of resolving your issue so quickly....what are you going to put in your conical first. I just ordered an Ace of Spades black IPA... this will be the first batch in mine!!:)

Just got mine off of the front steps 10 mins ago. No problems with mine. Sorry to here that yours didn't survive the trip.:( I finished putting it all together and the 1 and only thing that I don't like so far is the lid gasket material. Its an easy fix though. I'm just not sure it will...