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Find a wooden dowell thats press fit or sand one down so its a tight press fit that you can cut to length to "bottom out" against the top of the shell casing. Drill a hole in the dowell thats one drill size smaller than the od of the threaded tap handle and either tap threads into it or just...

I use a half sphere stainless mesh kitchen strainer to catch the big trub gunk as I transfer to fermentor. It clogs rather quick but is easy to flip over and flick the gunk out into trash. Some gets by but settles out and I rack to secondary and my beer is usually very clear

Aside from low OG your bitterness will be way off

My store is very small, basically a guy who runs a print shop and brews so he sells equipment / grains. Even with his smaller size I did a brown ale with almost 13lb grain bill, 3oz hops, WLP yeast, a pound of priming sugar cuz I was out, and a bag of 144 caps for just over $40 out the door...

Worth it. I did just that and turned out WAY better than the extract versions I made when I just started brewing. It is one of my fav brews and I have a new recipe i made 2 days ago thats a tweaked version with UK base malts and some biscuit but hoppier and higher abv than english brown so...

His pics above are similar to my LHBS... its a smaller shop and a lot of his specialty grains are stored like that Base grains are in large food safe bins

I have made 2 slobber extract kits, 1 all grain and 1 all grain copy sourcing grains at LHBS... each time the krausen has all but disappeared after initial fermentation spike and just a thin layer temained on top. I think I have used different yeasts almost every time. A few dry yeasts, a...

What thermometers do you guys reccomend then ?

I use a keggle with a dip tube. After cooling I open the ballvalve fast to get wort which is very "trubby" flowing. I use a stainless strainer I got at a grocery store and tun wort thru that. If it gets clogged up I dump the junk into trashcan and flip strainer over and wash it out with wort...

My weldless bulkhead fitting uses a silicone o-ring on the inside. That with some teflon tape and a big S/S washer and Ive never had a leak. The setup is barely more than hand tight, never had a leak at all. http://www.bargainfittings.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=251

I made 2 kit beers over the winter because my setup isnt workable with Michigan's -40 winter we had last year... one was a dumpster fire the other was drinkable. This years plan is to brew A LOT in the fall... stock up

Using a similar setup as yours just round igloo 10gal cooler as mlt. I do like Scriv does only I add 1 gal boiling water to MLT and swirl it around. Dump the hot water back into my boil kettle that serves as my HLT and put lid on the MLT. This preheats it and when I add the rest of the water...

84% is very optimistic... after going back through notes I made of my first 5 or 6 all grain batches I have done my average is in the low 70's... 70-71% overall brewhouse. Low OG on a lot of the batches caused me to go back and figure that out. Last batch I made I increased the base malt by...

I have done 3 attempts at a Sierra Nevada clone between April and now. First one was spot on OG with around 10lbs of 2 row and 1lb of 40L, the second was low and the third I bumped up the 2row a little to compensate for my efficiency and the OG was much better. I targeted around 1.053 I think...

I was wondering this too... after my first all grain batch I got a lot of gunk and bits of orange peel from my Wit I was making that clogged the ball valve on my keg. I have a 1/2" copper dip tube thats maybe 1/4" from bottom of keg. Should I trim that back so its not as close to bottom or...

Most of the gas lines look like galvanized pipe with the yellow pipe tape for gas on the connections. The yellow flex lines are standard appliance hookups. All should be available at any hardware store.

Where in MI ?