Recent content by kohalajohn

Hello all I am attaching a laboratory water analysis that I commissioned. It is untreated ground water taken from a Gulf Island on the west coast of Canada. Our club has an oceanfront camping area. River water runs underground, through the "fines" and we collect it. It is untreated...

Continuiing to get too deep into this rabbit hole. While the zipper method may be ok for hops, it's not as robust as the melting method. For example, you can't use the zipper method for sous vide. You have to use clothespins to hold the zipper above the hot water line.

Hey, those reusable freezer bags do have the proper channels in the back sheet. Just like the usual vacuum freezer bags. That's good. You have to buy a small handheld pump to suck out the air. But it's cheap. Some complaints that that rechargeable internal battery dies after a year...

That would be great

That product probably works great, but they won't create the same vacuum as a vacuum machine channel bag does. The bags normally used in. FoodSaver machines and their kind have a back sheet that feels pebbled. They are called channel bags because the pebbled side creates a one way channel...

I should say I am not using Mylar bags at all. Just the plastic rolls of freezer bag material. But they are pretty thick. More thick than ziplock bags.

Let us know if it works. I don’t have a FoodSaver but it looks like it should work.

Thanks for the tips on ordering bulk hops Can someone point me to a supplier for Vancouver, Canada.

I just ordered a large roll of vacuum bag material. comes in a box with a cutter built in. The cost per use is virtually zero

Ok, I think I've found what works for me. My vacuum bags come in long rolls. So instead of vacuum bagging an ounce each time, I vacuum bag a large amount. I leave an extra six inches of bag at one end I use scissors to cut away the seal, take out an ounce, then use the machine to vacuum...

@day-tripper please give me a link to that mylar packaging, thanks

Pellets stored in glass jars, purged with co2 and frozen? I read about how well frozen hop pellets last in the freezer. And I have a vacuum pack machine. But the vacuum bagging method is not convenient. I have to open a bag containing many ounces of pellets, just to use one ounce. And...

Yeah, I think we are all using the same basic idea. Since I package in small ten liter kegs, my systems are smaller. I store my starsan in a five gallon bucket. I pour this into my keg then use an inverted one liter plastic bottle as my "dedicated starsan keg" for topping up and out of the...

Tell me a bit more about the SS please. Where did you get parts and how did you make connections?

the the Yes that would certainly sanitize it. But I'm thinking more about the complete removal of oxygen. The initial responders have got me curious about that.