Recent content by Phischy

That's glorious, I do wood turning and it never dawned on me to chuck my mill up to it. I had a small index lathe like you have, and now I can use my dad's big powermatic, but I don't brew in his shop. Sawdust and brewing are not good bedfellows. Still, that is so flipping awesome! I was...

Which way you go should really depend on the R factor you want and how much space you have for 6-8" thick walls and what the building material cost is. If you have more space, then rigid insulation is probably a better way to go. I had space constraints so I was trying to hit my R factor with...

The big issue is your neighbors, have you spoken to them? People get really upset, esp if you have an HOA. Seems that you simply say you're building for your hobby (soap making/tie dye), make sure it looks really nice. If it's not ghetto then you'll be ok, and it doesn't sound like it will be...

Having had this in use now for 5 years I've learned a few things and here are some of my take away's. If I were to build this again, I'd do it differently as I'm sure my vapor barrier must be leaking due to some symptoms. 1. I would build the walks in place and spray in place. Moving the...

My walk-in is 8x6. Behind the taps I have industrial shelving for keg storage. I use a 40 gallon cube for cold water, that I pump through the wall to chill my conicals. For lagers, I simply roll them into the cold room, they're insulated with a heater and it works just fine. No need for an...

It'd be for gas blowoff, so orientation really doesn't matter. But how sanitary is silver solder if I were to put a TC fitting on the body of the conical?

Any comments on the sanitary nature of silver soder? These wouldn't be touching the beer, but it'd be nice to have one on the vessel wall for a sample port or a thermowell.

Having gone from 5 gal to a 20g system (morebeer 2020 flat) with 26 gallon kettles and I generally brew 10g batches with the occasional 15 when I'm teaching so the 'student' can walk away with a batch of beer too. I've gone full stainless, and everything is on casters. Going bigger is fine...

That was my question, keeping the lid rim flat in order to insure a good seal. These are older FV's from 2010 or so, so many new options and better hardware which would increase functionality. Trying to figure ways to add to them as I have copper coils wrapped around the exterior that are then...

I don't know how I've not seen this tool/process before, but I'd love to add some 1.5" TC fittings to my 14g domed conical lid. Will this distort the lid? Welders keep telling me they can't really do it for fear of warping the lid.

My pots are way too big to sit in the sink. But my brewstand is always setup, I clean in place the MT and just tilt it to drain into a bucket. The BK comes over to the sink, lays on it's side like above and I just blast it clean. The best part is you can always expand later.

Amazing build and once you redid the floor, added the brick and the ceiling it suddenly screamed to me: English Bar. My two cents: only thing you need to add is some sort of cabinet above the bar where the lights are, and then add hanging stemware glass. Google "English Home Bar" and you'll...

You have the hookups (minus hot water), I would have installed a 3 basin SS resturant sink. I did this with one from a auction store. R to L, I keep PBW, Star San and then the dirty side next to a table. It is by FAR the most used 'brewery' equipment I use. As I'm disassembling items they...

Love the short shifter knobs. I did the same thing out of skeleton heads.

I built an 8'x6.5' cold room. AC and coolbot controlled. 4.5' isn't much room to work in. Tape an area off on your floor and see what space you have. I don't know where you're going to find an exterior door to split your room up as shown. Make sure you can find what you need prior to...