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Just wanted to throw this out there - I'm intrigued by the StillDragon setup, mostly because it looks like you could mount it on the valve collar of a sanke keg, with one of those half-flat silicone TC gaskets. No welding or messing around of any kind required, if you don't mind the element...

Man oh man

Funny, I adapted this same principle for my homemade immersion chiller. I used 1/4" copper in two parallel 25' coils split with a T at the inflow and outflow. The difference is that I kept the two coils separate - one smaller, tightly wound coil inside a larger, more open one. It looks goofy as...

Check out the sticky in the DIY forum on soldering stainless steel. Folks are getting beautiful results drilling, dimpling and soldering in their fittings. Someone was able to do it with a TC ferrule. The thread is now 100+ pages long, and I wasn't able to find that post specifically in 5...

I don't know if that furnace is going to improve your mash... at least, it doesn't seem very efficient. Yes, it will retain heat longer, but it will require at least twice as much energy since you're heating the thermal mass of both the bricks and the wort. I've never had much need for a heated...

I used the pvc jig for cutting my last keggle. It really is great for those of us not blessed with freehand precision. Only downside seems to be that the hole can only be so big before the tool runs into the keg chime. One of these days Im gonna build myself a new mash-tun with an upside-down...

Golddiggie, that sounds rad... Any chance you could post some pics? I've had similar ambitions of fitting corny posts to a hdpe barrel fermenter. I'd love to see how you did the execution.

toys!

Sorry for the image snafu, still figuring out the hbt app. At least those links should work now.

Hi folks! In the process of putting together my new keggle system. Was about to put in an order for a banjo burner, but a friend hooked me up with this: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0PH9EoQIk_FRTBheUwtZEZvQjg https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0PH9EoQIk_FSmNxdFlJbHZvSVE Apparently he...

Force carbonating doesn't have to involve a piece of hose, which I would personally avoid as a contamination risk. If your tanks use tri-clover fittings, you can purchase a one-piece carb stone (usually a 6 - 12" rod) which can be fitted into one of the tank ports, for instance where you might...

Thanks for all the excellent advice! To get into the nitty-gritty, just for fun: My understanding is that the state of a compound is mostly (entirely?) a function of temperature and pressure. So I get the trick of doing a fast blow-off to chill your destination tank. Not that I need or intend...

Thanks for the input, ktm. I'm just not sure I understand - so you were using non-standard tanks? Or did I miss something?

Thanks for the vote of confidence, man. If I'm here asking for the opinion of folks with more experience, it's so that I hopefully stay out of the running.

Hi folks! First post on HBT; I hope this isn't a question that's been answered before, my search didn't turn up anything. I've got a 5# and 20# for my homebrewing. I'm lucky enough to also work in a microbrewery, and there are always a bunch of tanks, 50# I think, circulating though here...