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Yup. I've pretty much accepted the fact now that how a language is used is how it should be used. Not how some book or person says it should be used. Yup, because how a word is used/pronounced in common use is what defines the language. Dictionaries document how words are used, not how they...

120 volts is very much the actual voltage in the US, and is specified by ANSI C84.1. Range A in the standard (or what is the normal voltage) specifies a service voltage of 120 volts plus or minus 5%, so an in-spec unloaded residential voltage is 114-126 volts. There is a range B that allows...

My understanding is the issue is UV light reacting with hops will skunk beer, so this needs to be kept out of any light containing UV. But for mead/cider with no hops, there's no issue with light that I'm aware of. Probably not good to store it in clear containers in full sunlight, but otherwise...

My tank and regulators are inside. There's no issue with it, they work fine. Many others here do the same.

I’ve done the turkey fryer helping my brother with chickens. It’s certainly doable, but yes kind of a pain. How much do you want to DIY and how much time do you want to spend on this? There’s lots of ways you could do this relatively cheaply, but do you want to spend hours and hours designing...

Yeah there's absolutely no other way to determine the concentration of ethanol in a solution except a mass spectrometer. :rolleyes: https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/media/documents/science-outreach/ethanol.pdf

I mean not everything in life needs to be measured on a mass spectrometer to get numbers well within the ballpark or even highly accurate ones.

I got this recently. I started kegging but wanted a method to bottle for sharing or trips. I tried filling directly off the faucet but that looses carbonation. This is really easy to use and fills will minimal foaming. The resulting bottles were nice and carbonated. I’ve not used a beer gun...

Exactly this. This came up in another thread and after one person went into detailed math, I did a ballpark calculation based on change in specific gravity assuming volume stayed constant and the mass change almost exactly equaled the mass of CO2 he calculated in a way similar to what you did...

With a minimum quantity of 10 to boot!

Yeah I never did dig them out. Honestly if it was such a problem nobody here would do them, but instead they are probably the most used style of DIY kegerator, so instead I’ll just RDWHAHB.

Hmm. Perhaps try an electronic supplier like Digikey or Mouser? Well not impossible to get fakes I’d imagine the chances would be much lower than buying off Amazon.

Probably about 1.012, you read to the bottom of the meniscus. Which is hard to do with cloudy beers, but you can estimate it fairly well with some experience. If the OG is lower than expected the FG will likely be lower than expected too.

The condenser is the hot coil, so it wouldn’t freeze ;). Chest freezers have the evaporator attached to the inner wall of the chest. I’ve not seen one with a defrost cycle. In fact it wouldn’t be possible unless the chest freezers had a evaporator coil not built into the walls with a fan blowing...

Yes, putting the probe in something with thermal mass decreases cycling by increasing air temp overshooting. There’s no way around that. You can’t decrease cycling without increasing overshooting. That’s just basic physics. So you trade shorter cycles and more stable temps for longer, fewer...

It’ll be fine to keg. Only way to know flavor is to open and sample it.

Did you do the test suggested by @Bobby_M? That would differentiate between a headspace CO2 leak and an overcarbinated beer.

Based on all the glowing reviews I've seen here, I'd recommend you start with EVABarrier tubing and doutight push to connect fittings. I cannot personally vouch for it as I don't have it installed yet, however, I did just receive all the parts to upgrade my kreezer with EVABarrier lines and...

No it doesn’t matter if the regulator is inside or outside of the fridge. The only thing that matters is the pressure supplied to the beer and the temp of the beer itself.

Manifold vs regulator really depends on if you want to have multiple styles on tap that require different carbonation levels. If so, you’ll need multiple regulators. If not, just a manifold works. 10 psi at room temp will be very under-carbed when chilled for ales and lagers. To reach normal...