Recent content by wallstrum

I did a bunch of research on taps last year and the conclusion I came to is that perlick taps start to leak over time and intertaps are amazing. Here's a good review I came across (and if you've never heard of brulosophy, you'll find a ton of other info worth reading on the site)...

This is perfect, thank you! Wally

For what it's worth, there was someone who posted (I think to the Facebook group) that he had separated part of the lid, added some ingredients (IIRC, I think it was some oats because he wanted to make a NE IPA), and stapled it back shut. I recall it turned out fine in his case, but it seems...

Do you ever clean your beer lines (or associated ball lock connectors) out? If so, how often? I only have 6 foot picnic tap lines at the moment and I clean (with pbw) and sanitize (star san) between every brew. It's a total PITA even with that length (admittedly, it's all done in my kitchen...

Yep, double batches will be magic with the subscription. For carbing, I got lucky and found a CO2 tank with regulator and 2 5 gal cornys for $40 (then spent $8 per keg to replace the posts and poppets with ones similar to the Pico kegs so I could use the same wrench). I do have a couple of the...

Almost 3 gal. I can tell because of the condensation that appears on the outside of the 3 gal keg while I'm racking - it almost touches the rubber on top that the handles are part of. Given that 2.5 gal kegs are ~2" shorter, I'm sure that it wouldn't all fit in one.

This isn't quite accurate. All of my brew sessions are double batches now. I ferment the 2 batches together in a 5 gal keg, and there is roughly 3 gal of wort that I get from 2 Pico batches. I bought 3 gal ball lock kegs to serve from, and I'm positive that a double batch of finished beer...

Twice as long. Just make sure to ferment for at least 10 days whether you are using the fast fermentation adapter or not. Wally

Pelikan - out of ~30 Pico batches so far kermode has been my favorite, followed closely by stingray, dead guy, half squeezed, and belle of the ball. Hope yours comes out as good as mine did :)

Probably because it came directly from Rogue, as opposed to some unaffiliated person trying to figure out the ingredients that went into it and reverse engineering it. Wally

Skunk - I've been following this discussion since the beginning and I'd be curious how the results would turn it if you did an extract brew with us05. That experiment would certainly help narrow down where the problem could be coming from... Wally

Pliny was one of my kickstarter choices. I brewed it right before xmas and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm starting to get the feeling that people who are turning out bad brews aren't letting fermentation go long enough. I've done airlock fermentation for every one of my ~18 Pico brews, letting...

I asked Pico support about brewing directly into a 5 gal keg but they advised against it because of too much foam getting generated, and not enough heat retention with the larger headspace. I've resorted to brewing and cooling 2 batches of the same beer and racking them both into a 5 gal to...

We have a 4 stage RO filter from Costco on our kitchen sink and it's awesome. It has just enough capacity to do a rinse cycle on the Pico, then fill the keg and reservoir for a brew cycle. No lugging water from the store. I think he was referring more to real kegs vs. a kegerator. I bought...

Kermode has been my favorite out of ~15 Pico packs thus far, and I can't wait to brew that one again; I just have to work through all the packs I ordered during the xmas sale :). If they had kermode on that sale, I probably would have ordered like 10 of them! Wally