Recent content by TX-Jeff

I hope someone with a little experience is willing to step up, I really want to get in on one of these group buys.

After switching out the cleaners and breaking the keg down for a thorough cleaning I have not had a problem. I now believe that the cleaner I was originally using was leaving some kind of residue or film on the inside of the keg. I have now switched to PBW and have had no issues whatsoever...

Ok, so I decided to do a deep clean, removed all hardware, changed my cleaning solution, and finished with a HOT water rinse. So far there is no metallic taste in the beer. I say so far because it has only been in the keg for 3 weeks. This is about the time things start getting a bit funky...

I will have to check for rust, never thought about that. The beer that taste metallic is a Munich Lager so the flaw is very obvious, my other beer is an ESB so perhaps the metallic taste in that one is being covered up. I have probably kegged 10 batches in these kegs and only recently started to...

So this would be the second time that this particular keg has produced a beer with a slight metallic taste. I have 2 kegs and it only seems to be this one that has ever done this and it seems to be only recently starting to happen. Last time this happened I did not bottle any of the batch so I...

Ashford, when did you plant? I bet we could get away with planting a bit earlier down here to try and avoid the massive heat... Side note conversation, we could all meet up perhaps at a byob restaurant in Pearland...anyone know of any?:mug:

Always wanted to try and grow hops but figured they would just die from the heat. I am now inspired to try. It is also awesome to see other Pearland brewers...this may call for a meeting someday to share some brews...

Does anyone know of a place in Houston where I could take in the materials and have someone weld me a brewstand?

I started with John Palmer's spreadsheet that is available online and started using solver with it. The only problem with using solver is that it needs a single number to try and minimize. I ended up minimizing the sum of absolute deltas between each water characteristic to come up with a...