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Install a hose nipple fitting then use a piece of clear braided hose as your sight glass.

Do the math. 1. Piece of advice, ignore everyone’s “rules of thumb”. Unless they have the exact same system that you have what they do will not work right for you 2. Pick a carbonation method: https://byo.com/article/3-ways-to-carbonate-your-keg-techniques/...

i had a small master built that I loved then it died. Bought a traeger, it’s only good for cooking hotdogs. Pellet grills are the easy bake oven for BBQ. Bought a larger master built. It’s ok. Compared to the smaller one, the chamber was twice as big and the chip tray was 1/3 the size...

I miss my LHBS.

I use Brunwater to adjust my RO water and let it ride.

Prime it like one big bottle and let it sit

Wife and kids out of town for the weekend. I brewed an Irish Red on Friday, a Dunkle Weizen yesterday and brewing a reiterated mash Wee Heavy in the morning.

Clean your bottles with a brush. Beer stone and other crap builds up after awhile. I got lazy once and would only rinse after the pour, sanitize then refill. After awhile I started getting gushers, especially the longer they were in the bottle. One bottling day I had some nasty bottles and I...

I ferment @68F and it maintains that temp. I keep the cooling water @36F so I’m sure it would get colded

I had a beer once that just didn’t taste good. Put them aside and continued brewing. A few months later I needed some bottles and decided to try one before I dumped them. Beer actually turned out pretty good so I dumped them into my gut and not the drain.

I open ferment my Hefeweizen in a 15 gallon Sterilite container. To control temp I use a pond pump in a 5 gallon bucket in a chest freezer which pumps coolant through a Blichman cooling coil. I run it off two STC-100's. and have a reflectix "box" to cover it when fermenting. Works and it's cheap!

1. Piece of advice, ignore everyone’s “rules of thumb”. Unless they have the exact same system that you have what they do will not work right for you 2. Pick a carbonation method: https://byo.com/article/3-ways-to-carbonate-your-keg-techniques/...

What is your recipe? Process?

I started brewing while stationed in Germany in 2001. Hefeweizen, Altbier, Kolsch, Amber ale

I put Palmers math into an excel spreadsheet. I’d have to look but i think there is a calculation that compensates for water expansion. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal at our volume of brewing, but I could see it at commercial scale.

What is your grain bill? Batch size? That is a LOT of sparge water, too much ch actually. Water expands, but only about 4% from room temp to boiling. I calculate to get 60% of my boil volume from the mash and batch sparge with the other 40%.

When I sparge in my fermenter I clean it during the boil so that is not an issue. Heating sparge water is an issue. I bought a second M&B, mash in one and sparge in the other. But if I am using my fermenter as a sparge vessel I heat all my water then transfer my sparge water volume to a...

I calculate to get 60% of my boil volume out of the mash and sparge with 40%.

Do you sparge? Palmer has the math for stepping up a recipe to a no sparge recipe. I tried it and usually would have to add approx. 20% more grain to make the same numbers as a recipe that was created with a sparge. By that calculator I use a Mash and Boil and realized that my malt pipe...

Are you using the same recipe you used in your cooler mash brew? Have you adjusted your grain bill to account for the lower efficiency in an AIO?