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I also serve my beer much warmer than I carb it. So I carb it to a volumes calculation and then when it warms up to serving temperature the beer is good to go. 12 PSI at 39F is 2.52 volumes, about where I like most of my beers, 7 PSI at 30F is 248 volumes. So if I carbonate at 30F I want the...

...it is the thing in the rear right corner. On the bottom I have a 60W ceramic reptile heater bulb in a ceramic lamp socket sitting on small piece of plywood (plywood added after the picture after I spilled some beer in the fermenter and blew a circuit) over that is this piece of something...

hmm I get sufficient carbonation in about 12 hours with a CF15 with the racking arm pointed up. What temperature are you carbing at? If you can get very cold it goes pretty fast. I overcarbed in 12 hours once with the beer at 29F...

Yes My garage gets down into the low 40s in the winter. I heat my freezer with a ceramic reptile bulb and a small fan. I'd say no problem holding tems at 50F above ambient.

When the conical gets cold the gas inside the conical shrinks. If you have a blow off tube setup it will suck back from your blow off bucket to equalize pressure. If you have sealed the fermentor you may create enough negative pressure (less than atmospheric) to collapse the fermentor. They...

If plan is one or two conicals you might consider stand up freezer option. For cost of the glycol unit and the temp control coil you can buy two stand up freezers new and control them with inkbirds or similar. That may take the SS Brewtech fermentor out of consideration, I assume they are...

If you go on the vacmotion website you can find a lot of different line connection options including NPT, barb and push fit plus variety of mesh choices and gasket options. Awesome variety of options.

leave it in. fishing it out will stir things up and introduce a lot of oxygen. what is your fermentor? are you draining from fermentor through a spigot or using a racking cane?

sounds like a pretty solid procedure to me. The venting the headspace and closed loop vs merely closed are not going to explain the loss you are describing. I used to do open transfers and got good beer with clear hop aroma. Heck even open transfers into bottling bucket and then into bottles...

Getting hop debris stuck in your keg connection is a PITA. I've struggled with this even with a conical. Over time, with practice, it will get better. But for now here are a few ideas to get you going... 1. Use a bag for your dry hops. You will probably want to add them while fermentation...

USA, thanks @inkbird

Perhaps, guess it depends partly on how cold the beer is and lots of physics stuff I forgot long ago. I'm thinking try your planned bleed/purge. Then, making sure you have some headspace CO2 pressure, hook up a gas connector to your post and crack open the butterfly. If you are lucky there...

I no longer use my sight glass so my dry hopper will fit in my fridge... I brew with barb > butterfly > elbow > CF15. Then swap the barb for the gas post when ready to rouse. I do the same loose tri clamp you are describing to flush the bit of air behind the post fitting before I start rousing.

Calendar??? A clock works just fine around here.

got it! I must need more coffee too. haha I thought that 3 piece ball valve was on your pick up tube but now realize that is probably your whirlpool port while the pickup tube is around the corner out of the picture.

I also don't understand that picture in post #39. How do you get the wort to flow up through that mini valve on the right? Not a big deal I have my pumps set for recirculation and sparge. This pump might be dedicated to dry hopping unless one of my chuggers dies during a brew day and then...

Im not getting why I would not be able to purge. I'd put a gas ball lock post on the center of the T and an elbow to a camlock on the side. That would go to the PVC tube like you have, through the pump, to the racking arm. Seems easy enough to purge first with CO2 with the connection at the...

I'm surely going to build one of these. Woke up at 5am wondering if I ordered all the parts it would be here in time for current batch lol. I'm struggling by the idea of using camlocks on my fermentor but can see advantage if you want to also use that pump for other purposes. I'm not sure I...

The camlocks have me worried. I often see a bit of air bubbles in camlock lines even in systems that are not under any pressure.

nicely done. Really like that design for flooding the pump. I'd still worry about oxygen ingress through the (now much shorter) silicone hose and in the pump connections but looks super promising. Perhaps you could use 6.5mm ID EVA Barrier tubing to get rid of the silicone. Looking forward...