Recent content by psuchunk03

+9 for me... 25,127

btw, before anyone directs me to the McMaster parts list sticky... I looked through it and didn't see any reference to Spatenberg o-ring sizes. Not sure if that means they're the same diameter, or if no one has asked... unless I missed it in there.

Hey everyone... been a loooonnnnnnggg time since my last post, but I had a quick question. I'm looking at rebuilding a couple ancient Challenger IV Spartenberg kegs I got for super cheap ($10/ea woot!), and I was curious if the dip tube o-rings are the same diameter as the dip tube o-rings...

A buddy of mine got me a line on some super cheap ball locks... he found a cache of them sitting outside a barn since forever... so i bought a few of them.. . knew they would need some work and parts replaced, but couldn't beat the price, so i'm dealing with it. but... one of the lid...

bump... vote was 3 April... any news?

Thinking of building a 2 tap kegerator... going to go with swivel nuts, since I have a mixed bag of pin and ball lock cornies. But I digress... Anyway... curious if those with a two tap system have a three way manifold to keep a 3rd keg on gas... for carbing, purging, etc. Thoughts welcome.

i plan on telling my wife that the brew fridges are hands off... but, now knowing what it means to be married, i figure that'll last for about three minutes... or until her first trip to COSTCO, whichever comes first.

so here's a question someone might know... the eventual plan for the home brewery is to have two fridges. one for the kegerator, running all regular-like to keep the kegs cold and grains and hops in the freezer. ... and a second fridge for a temp-controlled fermentation fridge... if i put a...

plus can't forget about the "boredom" factor of a sunday morning.

drew myself away from the Little League World Series long enough to go get my scale. 2.5 tbsp = 2 oz PBW

just curious if anyone has a weight to volume conversion for PBW in their notes? it's 2 oz / 5 gallons, but i'd like to not break out the scale every time i need to use PBW. anyone know how many TBSP/tsp 2 0z of PBW is?

yup. two rounds it is. plus there's a 15 minute wait once you add the sparge water and stir (without crushing my SS braid), right?

Ok... my buddy and I are brewing an IPA next week and breaking in my newly constructed A/G equipment. We'll be batch sparging and sparging calculators are estimating we'll need about 4.25 gallons of sparge water. Ok... but, my mash tun is a 10 gallon round cooler, so I have the capacity to...

SO I NEED TO RUN INTO YOU OVER HERE, JAKE!!!! lol we miss you over at MrBeerFans... guess you've moved on to bigger an better things ;) yeah, the strainer will aerate plenty... any other method you use, as long it's not pure O2 supersaturation, won't hurt either.

i aerate with a sanitized whisk after i pour the chilled wort into my bucket, but before pitching the yeast. whisk until you're arm is going to fall off! :rockin: