Recent content by Spetz

@Zadkiel I just checked mine and can confirm it also has that raised/flanged part on the wall. The nut sits against it exactly as in your photo, and it's very solid - I haven't had to adjust or play with it since initial assembly. Probably a silly question as this is the thread for the Gen 4 -...

Resurrecting this old thread after coming across this myself for the first time today after kegging. I've had my fair share of alarmingly dark krausen rings before, but never purple/pink. It caught my eye the moment I popped the lid on my FV after kegging. Inevitably, I have been scouring the...

Been there before with the screen tilting up and dropping grain underneath the malt pipe - daunting experience but the lesson has been learned now! RE sparging - i'll slow it down but stick to the amount Brewfather is giving me I think - when I lift and dump the malt pipe (into a huge bucket)...

Thanks for the comprehensive breakdown of your process! This is pretty much exactly as I did for the first few batches until I found the top plate was compressing the grain bed down, and I was left with either a stuck mash or stuck sparge almost every time. I was still getting 'ok' efficiency...

Hi all - on my last couple brews I've been running into some issues with general brewhouse efficiency, albeit with hoppier/hopstand beers where i'm losing around 1.7 - 2 liters to trub/chiller during transfer to fermenter. This is around my 15th or so brew on the Zilla (65L), prior brews always...

Truer words have never been spoken my friend...

Hey all Also based in Indonesia and yet to meet any fellow homebrewers here! What's everyones take on water supply/building profiles? Has anyone tested any of the various mineral/filtered waters or are most of you using your own/bought RO water? Myself, I solely rely on RO but am keen to try...

Most of mine I keep around 15c/59f for 3 - 4 days before chilling, but it depends on style and how concerned you are about hop creep, which, if at all, tends to occur more above those temperatures unless you've crashed first. Carbing for me usually begins the moment it hits the keg, depending on...

Same boat for sure. Have been solely keg hopping for a while now, but the absolute biggest downer for me is the hop absorption. It's manageable with lightly hopped beers, but anything over 8 - 10g/L just kills it for me, DIPAs at 15+/liter even worse. Been doing double batches and sometimes 1.5...

Firstly, great thread and great input from everyone trying to diagnose whatever is happening to your beers @DevilsCups, feeling your pain. Specific to NEIPA/Hazy beers: I noticed a ginormous difference the first time I started properly loose keg hopping, in both flavour and appearance. Went...

'Hutan Hazy' - Amarillo, Citra, Simcoe, 7.2% (The feather belongs to a poor, very beautiful bird that, moments before taking this photo, flew straight into my (very, very dark, tinted, not even remotely transparent in day light) living room window with force. He was fine and flew away after...

I cannot thank you enough for this beyond inspirational post @Broken Crow ! I have a 32L SS conical. I've just been going down a rabbit hole on the whole thing for the last 3 hours after finding your post - this is the absolute perfect solution for everything I'm trying to achieve at the...

All good, I tried it with just the stainless nut, no magnet in the equation, and it seems to be just fine so far, enough to submerge the dip tube and give me liquid. Living in Indonesia, it's quite hard to find genuine SS 304 (let alone brewing equipment like fancy clear beer systems!) unless...

I was trying to find the 'edit post' button but realized there isn't one. But yes you're totally correct - I actually did the test initially with a non-stainless nut (intentionally) just to see if the process actually worked, then managed to find an actual stainless nut in the house and did the...

This is such a great idea... I just got my first floating dip tube and immediately ran into this problem like everyone else, as i'd been expecting. I just ran 3 kegs worth of water to test this magnet idea and it works a treat, combined with a stainless nut. As day_tripper said above, the key...