Recent content by kelvarnsen

So I ended up making the Reid 1839 IPA. It was crazy. I made like a 2.5 gallon batch and used 4 ounces of hops. When I made the 30 minute addition, and the hop pellets broke up I thought for awhile that I might end up with green beer, since there was so much hop material in the kettle. When I...

My wife got me this book for Valentine's day. I am excited to try it. I am curious to see how these recipes with 100+ IBU's turn out. Anyone else try any of the recipes in it? Also anyone have any luck, or have a good process for making (or better yet buying) and using brewers caramel? Does it...

That thing looks cool, although my system as it stands is a picnic tap to a ball lock keg with all barbed connections. So I am not sure this would work. That is why I thought the pump thing in this thread with a ball lock connector on it would be idea. Unless anyone else has any other ideas?

Ball lock, but looking at the different options for posts, it seems there are a number of different sizes with respect to the threads (see the link above I posted). Anyone know which size is the right one for those pump bottles?

So I filled my first keg last night and I am already thinking of how to clean my lines before I fill it again. I saw this post and I really want to build one of these. Just not sure the right size of keg posts. Does anyone know the exact size? There are some pretty cheap ball lock posts...