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That's a good idea about adding a T. I wonder if you could keep the lid from tipping if you added a beefy butterfly valve or something on the side opposite the condenser. Adding a bulkhead would probably be the easiest and cheapest thing to do. But this particular set of kettles has the welded...

I'm about to acquire a Spike Trio system second-hand. Unfortunately, it does not come with a steam condenser. I currently have a DIY steam condenser that I put together for my Anvil Foundry. I'm wondering if I should repurpose it for this new system, or go all-in with spike and buy the steam...

I’m selling my Grainfather Conical Fermenter Pro Edition (GF30), with some upgrades. The GF30 has a built-in heating element and jacketed cooling capability. I’m including the power supply and mini pump needed for cooling. You would need to add the Cooling Connection Kit from Grainfather, which...

Just to follow up in case anyone else happens to have the same problem... I sent an email to Blichmann explaining what happened, and within a few hours they had a new impeller in the mail for me. Excellent customer service, especially a few days before Christmas. Problem solved!

Thanks, Bobby. I actually ordered the upgrade kit from you last February. Do you think Blichmann would send me a new impeller under warranty if I reach out to them?

I have one of the Riptide upgrade kits attached to my March pump body. My last brew day, while I was recirculating the mash, I heard the dreaded "screeeeeech" and immediately shut off the pump. I assumed I had sucked in some air somehow, but when I tried to turn the pump back on after ensuring...

I'd love to see some more pics of these. Also, some info on the number of ports, locations, etc. for each kettle would be nice to know. Is that a false bottom on the left side of the picture? Do these come with valves?

Ahh... thanks! I thought there had to be something better out there. They have the best price I can find, even with the shipping charges. My order is in!

About 2 years ago, I ordered a set of universal poppets on Amazon for my kegs. They are the generic open spring type. They've mostly worked ok, other than being a bit too stiff. However, in the past few weeks I've had 2 of them utterly fail on me. In both cases, I pulled off the ball lock QD...

A word of warning about yeast harvesting from your Grainfather conical... the design of the dual valve tap makes it very difficult to collect yeast sanitarily. If you take a look at the tap, you can see that the dump valve lever lifts up the the plunger thingy, allowing whatever is at the...

I believe it's a 3/8" BSP thread. I ordered this and this to replace the elbow with duotight fittings. This lets me use EVABarrier during transfers and gives me peace of mind. My previous setup with the elbow + silicone tubing + clamps always made me nervous that air was sneaking in.

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I scored a Neslab RTE-111 recirculating water bath on eBay for $90 shipped. It's got a 2 gallon reservoir and 500 Watt cooling capacity. I use it as a glycol chiller.

The latter. As gravity pulls the beer into the keg, the CO2 is pushed out the gas post of the keg into the headspace of the fermenter. Eventually you'll have a keg full of beer, and a fermenter full of CO2. This video illustrates the whole idea pretty well:

Correct. The CO2 from fermentation pushes the sanitizer from the keg into a bucket. Fermentation produces enough CO2 to empty the keg many times over. To get the last pint or two of sanitizer out of the keg, I'll usually just hit it with a few pounds of CO2 from my tank, flip the keg upside down...

The hole in the lid is a standard 1.5" triclamp. I got one of these for closed transfers: 1.5" TC TO BALL LOCK GAS POST You can clamp it on at the beginning of fermentation and purge sanitizer out of your keg with a ball lock jumper. Then when you're ready to keg, leave the jumper connected...

Thank you!

Do you have a link to the 4mm x 8mm EVABarrier tubing on William's site? I was going to add a roll to my order yesterday and could not find it. They have 5mm x 8mm, but with a resistance of 1 lb/ft, that means I'd need 12 ft or so per tap.

Fingers crossed!

I like just about anything cooked on my Big Green Egg!