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If you are using the water filter to remove chlorine or chloramine, I'd recommend a GAC filter from Pentek, this is the one I use...

Yup, the way these are designed, you must have a gasket to not leak. I'd recommend checking yours over and just double check them to make sure they are in good condition, it is good practice every now and then. It is actually difficult to have cost effective metal on metal seal up without...

I highly doubt you would cause problems with a slightly higher concentration. National Chemicals, the company that makes BLC, make a whole line of chemicals for line cleaning. I personally have 'penetrate' on hand, which is essentially double the concentration of BLC in the bottle. They also...

I have two types of gaskets in my camlocks, one is a flat, rectangular profile, and the other is the traditional circular o-ring profile: ETA - by profile I mean the cross section geometry, and I should say that both seal up well for me, and I do not suffer from any sort of leak.

My suggestion is to get another counterflow chiller and recirculate ice water through that as your second stage of chilling. So the output of your current counterflow goes into the input of the second counterflow.

My manifold is much simpler since I use the bev seal ultra. I just use John Guest fittings on the manifold: For the return, I bought a bunch of growler fillers for the 650ss faucets I have, and use those to return the solution back to the pot that is heating up the solution. I actually have...

I use one of my chugger pumps for cleaning duty on the keg lines. I built a manifold so that I could clean them in parallel in groups of 7 at a time. I have a small 2 gallon pot or so with a valve and camlock fitting, I set that on top of a camping stove to heat the solution. From the valve on...

I use 50# tanks at home, so my 20# tanks feel pretty portable to me! I don't bring kegs around very often, but I do have three jockey boxes (a 6 pass, a 5 pass, and 2 pass), so I always bring two 20# tanks with me, to make sure I have a backup.

I have a full size Jack Daniel's barrel that houses a Flander's Red solera, started in 2015. It is past due for the next partial drain and refill, and the beer coming out of it so far has been fantastic. This next pull is going to be more tart than the previous ones because we waited two years...

Yup, I definitely think that there are some tools which are great to buy at harbor freight, and then others to stay away from. Like others have said, it also depends on what kind of work you do and what kind of uptime you require for your paycheck. It is definitely hit or miss. Also, scaling...

I built a custom two-stage counterflow chiller. I used copper in mine, but if I had found stainless at the time, I would've definitely used that (I found it later, unfortunately). It is 50 ft in total length, with the first stage using groundwater, and then the second stage is recirculated ice...

could it be possible that the pins are bent in one direction or another? If you know the threading, you can just get some replacement ones.

Because RO has so few dissolved minerals/salts, it has no buffering capability, specifically alkaline compounds which would react with the phosphoric acid of the starsan. this is one of the greatest uses for RO water, in my mind. The RO water-based starsan solutions last for months for me. I...

I personally have an RO system at home, but it is only for a few specific duties, only one of which is related to brewing: 1. Drinking water 2. Ice maker in the fridge 3. Starsan solution (so it lasts longer) I do make 5 gallons of starsan at a time, so I did add a larger auxiliary tank. For...

I went with a more 'manual' method for cooling my walk-in chambers, roughly 6 ft x 6 ft x 6ft interior space each, insulated in all directions. All I did was modify the AC control so that when it had power, it was on full blast. I separately control the power to the AC unit with a Love digital...

I've tried using it for gas lines, but it was too rigid for me, and became a pain to use. I now use a mix of braided and thick walled PVC tubing with my push to connect fittings for the gas lines. If rigid tubing can work for your setup, there is no reason why you couldn't use it. The bev seal...

I use a combination of products for my organization. I have a toolbox with 4 drawers that I use for my most needed kegging equipment. This is also what I take when I serve on my jockey boxes since it has all my spares and tools that I need. I have numerous baker's racks for big and heavy...

I've been thinking about doing this with my coffin box. I have 14 taps on the coffin box, and I have always just been ok with the foaming. For my system, it would be about chilling the shanks and faucets, which would really require me to wrap the shanks with copper tubing and pump the chilled...

If you are looking at efficiency, a double brewday can do that for you, as you can mash the second while boiling the first. It is a long and arduous day, but you save a considerable amount of time in total, and you can then also keep everything on the same daily schedule, which makes things...

I've got a center inlet basic chugger, and then also their mini-max with the same head but TEFC motor, which I really like. I use this for brewing, and also for cleaning tap lines when I do that (not often enough!). I also recently bought a diaphragm pump for pumping finished beer. I don't do...