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Often overlooked.. If your using older style quick disconnects that just have a stainless 1/4" flare without some sort of seal on the tip were the flare nut attaches, you need to add a "fisheye" seal to them. It's a little nylon seal that helps seal the connection. Newer quick disconnects have...

Just stumbled across your post... Next time you smoke poultry... Brine it! Check out .. https://www.smoking-meat.com/ Great resource. Lots of good recipes and how to articles. Cheers

Holding a case

Does Auburn count??

Auburn checking in..

Keggle? Are you referring to a converted 15.5 gal keg? I have brewed all grain for years with a 3 keg, gravity feed brew system in my garage in Seattle, winter or summer and never lost those kinds of temperatures. In your test you said you lost 42 degrees. The loss from a boil to say 185F...

Welcome to Washington.. What part of town have settled in at? Are you an all grain or extract brewer? What HB shops have you checked out? Larrys in Kent does national homebrew day, first Saturday of May every year... BIG fun. All the faithful drag their equipment down to the warehouse in the...

Once your fermentation starts the vessel will have a nice co2 layer on top of the fermenting beer. It's not likely you will have a problem.. However, if you plan to keg in that cornie after your fermentation is done, get new O rings. A leak like you discribed will drain a 5# co2 bottle in no...

Since you are talking about carbonating in the sanky, I'm assuming you have the Tapper to go with that. How do you clean your 1/2 barrel? I have fermented in a 1/2 barrel before. You just need to remove the grip ring and take the dip tube/sanky guts out. Your local brew shop should have a...

I keg direct from my primary. Rarely use a secondary on any beer I brew..

OMG!! LOL … I tried making a coffee porter once. I put 1# Starbuck whole beans, coarse ground in a hop bag and steeped it in the boil pot for 10 minutes after at the end of the boil of a 10 gallon batch. After fermentation and bottling, I let it set for a month and opened the first bottle...

Posting a late update to the beer I brewed using this recipe back in, umm.. June. I have had this on tap for over a month now, and most of my friends that come around to pay homage to the seven nipple Goddess (aka my beer fridge) that lives in the garage, won’t leave it alone. I still plan...

At a 1:064 OG, and using the 1.25oz of Kent in the last 15 minutes, you’re looking at more like 1.75oz of Fuggles, NOT 8.25oz. And that’s just using the default alpha values in BeerSmith. Even at that, it’s still coming out to 34 IBU. The next question should be, what are the actual alphas of...

At a 1:064 OG, and using the 1.25oz of Kent in the last 15 minutes, you’re looking at more like 1.75oz of Fuggles, NOT 8.25oz. And that’s just using the default alpha values in BeerSmith. Even at that, it’s still coming out to 34 IBU. The next question should be, what are the...