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I stopped by Farmhouse today to pick up my order and mentioned this thread in passing. The owner said he’s more than happy to answer any questions anyone may have about brewing one of the kits someone buys from him. You can email or call him with the contact info given at the bottom of the...

Hey, Farmhouse! That’s my LHBS. Just got an Anvil Foundry and I’ll be at the store the next time I’m off when they are open to buy grain for my first all-grain batch. In regards to the mention of pre vs post gravity measurements, if you have 7 gallons of wort pre-boil and you loose half a...

Ah. I ask because while I've only made cider from store bought filtered juice to date, of the yeasts you've listed I've used M02 and Safcider (when it was just Safcider without the different varieties. I liked D47 better than either of them, and wasn't particularly happy with the M02 in...

Are you using fresh pressed or store bought filtered juice?

RODI is just an RO system that also runs the water through a DI resin filter to remove the remaining ions the RO system doesn’t get. This is really only used at the home scale for saltwater aquariums where it’s very important to have pure water as a base for the sensitive aquatic life. For...

Get a system from Buckeye Hydro. You’re going to get a high quality system tweaked for your needs, with better (and cheaper) filters. The entire system is cheaper. You don’t need 500 gpd as a home brewer. My 100 GPD system was $365 last year. This included a chloramine removal stage since our...

I too recommend @Buckeye_Hydro. Contact him with your needs and he’ll suggest a solution for you. Mine is mounted downstairs, the typical 100 gpd unit. I have the drinking water add-on kit and permeate pump. My system has a split output, with one side connected to the pressure tank which routes...

Added sugar is just to increase ABV, though honey and other non-raw sugar additions add other flavors themselves. I think typically cider does not have sugar added to increase ABV, though it may be added for sweetness after fermentation. My first batches of cider had sugar added, but after that...

There won’t be any refrigerant lines in the lid. I suspect the hole is likely where they injected the foam mix into the lid assembly.

This looks similar to what I got from Amazon. The brand I got the clear lid melted the first time I stuck it in the oven. Still works fine, just gotta be careful not to tip it. A single one keeps my kreezer condensation free if I recharge it when it needs it.

You can buy sheets of PVC, well actually maybe not right now after I looked it up. Like this, but it's unavailable. COVID may have affected things. Could be you could find it in some stores though. That was just a 4'x8' sheet of the cellular PVC used for trim boards. I used PVC trim boards to...

Oh, and one thing I forgot earlier is it’s NOT just the temp delta explaining the greatly reduced energy consumption for the kreezers over the sticker value for freezer energy usage. Heat pump efficiency is strongly correlated with temperature delta as well. The large the delta, the lower the...

So I put the Kill-A-Watt on my freezer to see if my freezer lines up with the sticker values more or less, to help explain that the temp delta is indeed why kreezers have a much lower energy consumption than freezer sticker values, even though the kreezers have a bigger surface area with a...

Yes, the force is for the entire area. But you cannot state that a material can "withstand" a certain pressure as a blanket statement. Being able to withstand a certain pressure is entire a topic of not only the material, but it's size and shape as well. You must do an internal force analysis to...

Sitting on the lees for very long times can cause autolysis of the yeast I believe, which can cause a bunch of off flavors. Nothing that is dangerous though I don't think. Refrigerating will greatly slow but not stop the yeast. If you drink it fast enough that would work. I'm not sure you will...

That setup seems quite reasonably priced if you're good with doing 5 liter batches at a time. I can't remember exact prices but my pictured setup above, rough prices were: $180 for a 20 lb CO2 tank ($30 for exchanges from now on) $80 per 5-gallon keg $50 per faucet $60 for a regulator All sorts...

The headspace is going to be effectively all CO2 after fermentation finishes so long as the airlock is maintained. There are a couple methods here. Assuming it has fermented dry (which it should have, if not stopped), you can: Add appropriate amount of sugar, bottle, and the sugar will ferment...

If the primary has a lot of headspace, that shouldn’t matter for letting it sit because during fermentation almost all the O2 will be displaced by CO2 produced during fermentation. So you don’t have air exposure you just have CO2 exposure. Where lots of headspace will be a big concern is if you...

Damp Rid uses calcium chloride to remove water. This forms a saturated salt solution which you need to occasionally drain off. Saturated salt solutions have a limit to the relative humidity they can lower air too, so depending on that specific point for calcium chloride and any temp variations...

In addition to not being anywhere accurate enough at the levels that matter, that particular device the OP linked is a confined space O2 alarm. I’ve used that exact model. By default at 19.5% O2 and below it flashes red, has an audible alarm, and vibrates. Not exactly something that would be...