Recent content by MikeGillis

I'm doing batch sparge, but I would also like to use it to calculate bk volumes ie: loss during boil etc. Paired with a refractometer it should make it fairly easy.

You can adjust volumes by using sg of a liquid so if the sg is 1.036 and you have 19kg of that liquid you would actually have 18.340L. Given that 1L of water at sg of 1.00=1KG. Does that seem correct?

Just wondering if anyone had used a shipping scale to measure volumes of water? You could measure water for strike, bring it up to temp do your mash and when it comes time to do sparge put your mash tun on the scale tare it out and release water from your HLT until you hit desired amount. If...

Thanks for the quick responses. Looks like I will be pulling the trigger on a new kegging system. What do you do for force carbonation while out of town? The first beer I will be kegging is a hefeweizen with a co2 volume of 3.2 so with fridge at 40 degrees I would set co2 to 20 psi. Would you...

I work out of town for 2 weeks at a time, but I would really like to start kegging my beer. However I'm wondering if leaving beer in the lines for 2 weeks at a time would be a bad thing?