Recent content by Mr. Vern

Dry Irish Stout Thank you Corny Keg!

Your liquid stops boiling well under this pressure.. you will be fine provided the tank does not get too warm! Is it in a ventilated area or maybe the garage? If you blow 15# of CO2 it will displace some oxygen which would be my only concern assuming this cylinder is properly secured.. Primary...

Just stopping in to say I like your Avatar... Don Martin / Sergio Aragones are some of my favorites. You guys seem to have the pressure figured out.

Cherry pits in Kirschwasser was a hit. Wash down that $60 nacho with an Avocado Ale!

Inspired to move from "storing under beer" to a more stable process. This 100g bottle of DME+Agar is expensive!!! With fresh DME, you can make 18X for the same price. Bonus: get some expired DME on the cheap, taste is irrelevant, talk to your LHBS. With mushroom growing becoming more popular...

A quick look and I think @Brew_Dude41 has a point. You'll need 20 Lbs of grain which will take up 6-ish gallons by itself. I could do it in my Keggle, but I think it is a challenge with a 10 gallon single kettle.

Other than slight loss of efficiency and potential PH adjustments this would work fine. Maybe keep some extract handy if you need/want to boost gravity.

Put it up on a TV cart.. tag "NES" and someone will come get it. Too large for most arcade folks, 16:9 where most retro games are based on 4:3 for the purists. Is that a pool?? Alligator breeding? The upper level looks nice.. the lower level looks like a horror film is about to drop. This...

I am unsure if it was FB algo's or my ex.. but somehow I was recommended to the "Dull Men's Club" which led to this gem: The 16th Klangwechsel (Cord Change) of a 639 year performance happens today The organ started in September 2001 and today it will change cords for the 16th time. As Slow...

Bummer!! They are in my neighborhood and I have bought Lbs from them without trouble. I have been in their packaging area and freezer and everything looked "kosher" to me. It's a small operation and I am sure they would love to hear from you.

Just using captured CO2 to purge kegs and pressure ferment will save a lot of that liquid. A LHBS operator told me to use CO2 with a blow-off nozzle to clean air conditioner coils and what-not. Salesman of the year! I stopped going there. This particular exercise is a lot of work for little...

In that case yes, the gas is dried by a desiccant or maybe Carbon Molecular Sieve to strip O2 and water. Usually dried as a high pressure gas then sent to other stages. So I couldn’t help it, CO2 holds moisture like other gasses (but the solubility made me wonder). I bet OP has a tiny bit of...

Not really, gas compresses but moisture does not. Let’s say the CO2 is saturated at 50 degrees F. (Judging by by the condensate inside fermenters), compress that atmospheric gas to 9 bar and you have 9x the humidity at pressure. Almost certainly a dew point near 110-120 deg F. Without doing...

Maybe see if a local brewery would crush it for you? Deliveries for all kinds of manufactured goods are terrible (still).

I cant believe I missed this thread, I've been in industrial compressed gas for a quarter century! (damn that sounds like a long time, I'm only 46) I think you will like this photo, here is a CO2 compressor that was in service at Coors (not me in the image). At least I am 95% sure it was...