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Hello all, Im soon going to be brewing a guava wheat beer using 4.4 pounds (im guessing about 32oz)of guava puree at the end of primary fermentation. In the past, my fruit beers have ended up dry and have a bit of a more tart taste than sweet. Ive tried lactose and honey malt additions in the...

8 gallon THICK 301 stainless steel (thicker wall than my spike HLT) kettle with bottom pick up w/ 3 piece ball valve, whirl pool with ball valve, thermowell, volumetric sight glass, and 1.5 inch tri clamp port for element. All components are 304 stainless. All silicone rings food grade. The heat...

Because people get offended when you challenge their method they have been using for years. The truth is those little red cans at your hardware store are not approved for human consumption. If an actual licensed brewery went and used something not rated or approved for human consumption and an...

Im interested if you can ship it to Florida

The refractometer that I bought from Northern Brewer states that even though it has ATC (temperature will correct when meter is not at calibration temp at a certain range) it must be calibrated at 68 deg f with distilled water. I turned my ac down to 68 downstairs for an hour while my wife was...

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The Refractometer I just bought recommends calibrating with distilled water when the Refractometer is at 68 degrees. Anyone know how to get a refractometer to 68 degrees? room temp at best in my house is 73. I didn’t know people keep their homes at 68 degrees!

I filed off the crud and rust on the prongs of the element with a metal file and then hit it with some barkeepers friend. Hoping this will do the trick. Ill have to inspect my element prongs before each brew day.

Hello, I have now had the female plug of 2 different 240v cords melt, noticing after finishing up the boil in my bk. When looking at the male plug of the 5500 watt 240v element, one of the prongs has rust on it (sign of corrosion). Could slight corrosion on the male portion of the heating...

Here is the build. Ill be testing this out when I rack my force carbonated mint chocolate chip stout before Christmas next week! Ill be injecting mint extract inline very slowly while the beer is being pushed from fermenter to keg. Purged lines and nice, slow mixing of the extract while the beer...

The inner diameter of the syringe is 1”

Does not say diameter online but will post when I get it. My guess for a 60 mL syringe is atleast a 1/2” ID. I usually push at about 3-5 PSI.

I am developing an inline injector to inject extract into beer when it its moving from the fermenter to the keg. This would allow me to not have to open keg and compromise co2 purged environment (i fill my kegs completely with sanitized water then push out with co2). Slow injection would allow...

Meant to reply to robert65 btw

Thanks for the insight. Ill be looking into the pressure/flow rate it takes to pump oxygen through my stone. Ive always been a “splashing my wort into my conical” guy but enough research has influenced me that pure oxygen really makes a difference.

Wasted you say?? Every now and then, I don’t mind being a wee bit wasted myself, ;)

Thank you! I just wanted to confirm my thinking process on this. Just bought an oxygen tank from a local welder and grasping the idea of oxygen flow rate into wort. Ill have to test my carb stone to see what dialed rate allows oxygen to flow through the stone. Cheers!

The wetting pressure of a carbonation stone is the PSI required for gas to come through the very small pores of the stone. This number is usually added to the PSI that you can want to carbonate your beer to. Oxygen flow meters such as the one blichmann offers has a dial at the end of the meter...

The truth of this argument is that both sides lack facts. There is simply opinions but no data. I want purity testing that approves something for human consumption

E everything my liquid touches from start to finish is approved for human consumption whether that be 304 stainless steel food grade silicone, food grade beer dispensing tubing, and beverage/food grade co2. I don’t use brass or even copper in my brewery. Lead free brass still leaches lead in...