Recent content by PhlyanPan

PEX is awesome stuff. Put one in, and blow the line out with a compressor before winter. Even if you forget or don't get the water out there's a chance the PEX won't burst.

At our last homebrew club meeting, one of the judges found the tip to a beer gun in his sample. The beer didn't win the monthly contest.

I live in the country and have a well for water. So I have no idea what's in it really. We have a pretty elaborate water system that includes addition of HCL, chlorination, carbon filtration, and most recently, I added RO filtration for the drinking water (it tasted like crap before). The...

I have one of those Escali scales in silver. My only complaint is when I'm measuring out grain, the bowl extends out over the readout and makes it hard to read. I don't know what the solution would be...maybe something like this: .American Weigh Blade-V2-400 Digital Pocket Scale 400 x 0.1g -...

Why the hell would you put salt in your beer? I've never heard of that.

Do you bring in tree trimmings and feed them into your garbage disposal too? Seriously....it's not a damn wood chipper. Why would you shove pounds and pounds of grain down your drain? That's just asking for it. I've never understood the desire for a garbage disposal at all....is it really a...

You could do that if you relieved the (negative) pressure in the keg, but now you're in the realm of a picnic tap....ie adding oxygen to finished beer. If you're going to finish it in one sitting you're probably fine....but it won't keep after you let all that air in there.

You can also get regulators that are adapted for use with paintball tanks. A paintball CO2 tank is a bit more portable than a full sized CO2 cylinder. But like AJ said, you'll probably want both eventually. Otherwise you'll be refilling your paintball tank quite frequently.

Has anyone had any luck with non-contact infrared thermometers?

12,530 + 5 more gallons of cream ale. 12,535

Unless you have a way to get the kolsch beers fresh from Cologne, I'm not sure that the beers you're comparing it to are super representative of kolsch beers. I was talking about German beers with the local brewmaster and he was saying he had some German beers that he really liked to drink over...

11,941 + 5 gallons of heffeweizen= 11,946

Yes, the answer is it depends on the temperature. PSI on the gauge has very little to do with how much liquid is actually in the tank.