Recent content by tomakana

I just brewed for the first time with one of these - only issue is that you'll need a wind blocker. Also, it gets pretty hot below the burner - there's not a lot of clearance between the burner and whatever it's sitting on, so make sure there's something heat proof below it. Mine was sitting...

Sounds good - thanks for the quick response!

Ok - may have spoken slightly too soon - the other thing I'm experiencing is the taps resetting themselves. After I've got them set up in the settings menu, they display fine, they change when I dispense, etc. But a little while later when I look at the homepage, they've gone blank and in the...

Morning, all, and Happy New Year to everyone! Finally got some free time, and with a larger amount of effort than I was expecting (solely due to my own inexperience), I've got KegCop up and running in my keezer. I'm using 3 flowmeters and 3/4 of the temp sensors (Upper, Lower, and Tower). No...

Right - Swissflow confirmed that they're Molex connectors, and from everything I've found, @Thorrak is correct that the wire-to-board connectors are obsolete (at least from Molex) and basically unavailable anyplace I've checked. The challenge I'm having now is that I'm trying to extend the...

So for what it's worth, the kit I ordered to get JST-XH female connectors for this was not correct. The connectors I got are too large. Could be the connectors aren't correct, but they seemed reputable. I'm going to email Swissflow and ask them specifically.

Thanks - this is a huge help! OK - that's what I was thinking - it probably would have made complete sense once I saw everything on the table. Thanks!

Hi, all - been lurking for a while and collecting the materials to get KegCop up and running. At this point just waiting for the delivery from Mouser to get here. I built a BrewPi remix setup for myself over the pandemic, and short of the LCD screen never quite working right, it's been a...

Been playing with my son's new 3D printer - made some Elements of Brewing tap handles for the new keezer. Technically missing "water" but since I've only got 3 taps, had to leave one out. These were printed on a Voxelab Proxima 6.0 resin printer, painted with cheap acrylics, and sealed with...

I've been at it for 5 years or so, and while I've always been able to comfortably say my results have been "drinkable" the ones that I was particularly proud of were few and far between. But focusing on process and consistency has increased that rate significantly, to the point where I told my...

I have a 3-way secondary regulator already, so the seltzer's on it's own PSI. The two beers are actually somewhere between 10-12 -- to be fair, I lowered the temp from 38 at one point without adjusting the regulator, so that can be adjusted down a bit. Based on the chart, I'm slightly above...

So, I built a Keezer with a 3-tap DIY iron pipe tower over the pandemic, and so far I'm absolutely loving it. I've encountered one odd thing, though. I have 2 beers on tap (seltzer on the third) - one's a local craft brew in a sixtel, the other is one of my homebrews in a 2.5 gallon corny...

All my brewing is current in the driveway - I can get a hose around to there, but it's not ideal. The tub is a big plastic tub - probably 20+ gallons capacity - that I fill with cool water and ice blocks to set the BK in when it's chilling. Definitely have the floating problem, but the fit in...

Yup - it's on furniture sliders so comes out pretty easily. I'll look into the hammerite - I found custom bolts for the tower online since the black bolts from Lowes were too painted looking. They've got some kind of special finish on them that actually blends really well with the iron in the...

Hello, Fellow Home Brewers! First off, a hearty thank you to everyone who has posted on their builds in this forum - I spent a really long time lurking and browsing here to get ideas, and once I finally convinced myself to start, it went really smoothly because of all the incredible advice and...