Recent content by revkevin

Greetings PicoBrewers! To clarify on this matter: Please refrain from using PBW and other alkaline cleansers during your machine's cleaning cycles. As a fellow homebrewer I understand the reasoning behind wanting to use PBW, it is an amazing product and is great for cleaning darn near...

Don't do it! Bargain Home Brew is a rip off. They just took me for $200. See this thread.

My boiling pot is the 25 Gallon Update International. (Not the pot pictured on there). I fitted it with a weldless side pickup and whirlpool arm from Bargain Fittings. I've used it for over a year without any problems, I friggin love it, plus there is the big NSF stamp on the bottom that this...

So apparently my first claim was denied. Here is a link to the pot. I sent this reply to amazon this morning: Amazon's reason for turning down my first claim: "When the buyer received the item, but the item was materially different than as depicted in the seller's description." First, let me...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had an issue with this rip off artist. I bought their "25 Gallon Commercial Grade" kettle for $200 shipped last month for the HLT of the HERMS system I'm building: Amazon Link The description claims the walls are 1.2mm, I'm taking it to my mechanic buddy...

I'll be brewing tomorrow so we'll see how long it takes to heat up 10 gallons of strike water, I'll try your suggestion and report back.

After upgrading to a 10 gallon system (sometimes 15 Gallons Parti-Gyle) about 6 months ago, I've recently started streamlining to try to cut down by brew time. My biggest time thieves seem to be heating up and cooling down my wort. With my 50ft immersion chiller it was taking about 30 minutes...

Minea Farms. Good stuff.