Recent content by Matovichi

As far as no krausen goes, crap happens. My basement is also in the mid 70's range, and I've found (rather harshly on a lager) that getting a large laundry tub and filling it with water works wonders. For my lager, I had been rotating frozen bottles about every 12 hours or so, and had a wet...

Alrighty, got it. Thanks everyone

So I just purchased a 3 way splitter for my regulator so that I may use more than one keg at a time. The kicker is this: the splitter is supposed to screw into the regulator where the gas-out port is. Now that in itself isn't a big deal, but I cannot for the life of me so much as loosen the...

I'd be more concerned about a bacterial infection rather than a yeast infection. I work with E. coli in my lab, and our fastest strain splits every 20-30 minutes. In about 6-8 hours we have billions upon billions of cells in culture. I don't even want to day dream about the damage something like...

Yeah, 1007 is a rough yeast. I once had a kolsch "explode" in my face when I removed the airlock. Burnt the hell out of my eyes. Now I exclusively use blow offs for primary. Secondary is for the airlock.

So I completed it, and wound up with the conundrum of having to chose between running the hot wort through quickly, which did cool it albeit not as efficiently as hoped, or run the wort slowly to get to the temperature I want, but it's still painfully long that way. If I did run it fast, I could...

Looks like you're holding your kettle hostage with a bazooka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEX To sum it up, it's good over 120C and is chemically resistant. It's basically HDPE tubing. You'll be fine.

Right now I'm in the process of acquiring all the stuff I'll need, but I'm having some 'second thoughts' if you will. Not second thoughts in the usual sense, but rather, incorporating what you all have told me thus far into my design. I don't know if it's because I just got off work at 6 in the...

I would advise against using bottled water. Unless it's distilled water, there is a very good chance that it is not pure. Do a google search on bottled water and bacteria and you'll find that bottled water is really not all it's cracked up to be. IMHO, I'd get the water report from your tap...

Will do. FWIW, I use a ice water bath that feeds my current cfc via an aquarium pump. It's not a very fast pump, but it certainly gets the job done. I noted a 20*F difference between using tap water and using the iced water. Plus using my bath (very large laundry bin) I can actually have the hot...

I should have probably mentioned the other benefit I see in using marbles (I told you all I was bad at describing what's in my head). This is kinda a twofer, the first being that the shape of the marbles allow turbulence, but shouldn't slow the flow of the wort down nearly as bad as using 1/4"...

So last night I had an epiphany. I'm not very good at describing what's in my head, so ya'll will have to run with it. My idea is to get some 5' or so of 3/4" copper tubing (straight, not to be curved) and filling it with marbles. Now I have not lost my marbles, but hear me out. Assuming you...