Recent content by shaky6

MT link no good. Does it have a clean-out hatch?

Are you sure it's a diacetyl thing and not DMS from the pilsner?

My Inkbird ITC-1000 had a massive temp calibration shat-the-bed and froze my beer. It was reading 45*F with the probe in a block of ice. I know you can set calibration on this but I've never seen it go out 10-20 degrees before. While I'm waiting to thaw I'm wondering if the probe is no good.

I did contact arbor fab. I got basically the same reply as this thread: do this and do that, hey it's normal! I guess bum junk is the new normal.

Like I said, I haven't treated it any different than my Amazon Chinesium stainless spider and it looks fine.

Whirlpool really well before opening the valve, and when you open the valve blow through the hose to clear out stuff that will clog. No problems from there.

I cant believe I have to do all this b.s. to a made in USA "stainless" piece of gear

Odd that would happen since the atmosphere in a ferm chamber is mostly CO2 after fermentation begins.

$8 mini space heater from Walmart plugged into the heat side of an inkbird controller that runs my chest freezer-turned-fermentation chamber. Works like a champ.

Basically make a glycol refrigerator to put the fast ferment in. Build a box lined with glycol lines and a small circulation fan in it. Then add your temp controller and wa lah.

U.S.A.

I used an immersion chiller and then built a counterflow chiller. I'll never go back, this counterflow unit is the shiznit. 5 gallon batch at boiling to pitchable temp in the carboy in 10 minutes. I use one of those little 12v "solar" pumps to move it through at a low rate.

Go to Walmart and get some TSP. Mix it up with hot water and recirculate. It's a caustic. Rinse well and then sterilize @400*, nothing will be alive in it. Filter your wort coming out and dont worry about it.

I took my Arbor Fab hop spider out of the cabinet the other day and to my horror, it was covered in rusty powder. I washed it off and it doesn't even look like stainless steel. Arbor Fab told me its fine and I just need to passivate it. I've only used this thing once. I've never had to...

Why would you want to filter out everything completely down to RO water? You remove all character that lends into your beer. Take out the harmful stuff, minimize the difficult stuff, analyze the rest, and aim for a target. In this age of renaissance brewing and historical efforts it seems...