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You know what they say, you get what you pay for ... can't tell you how badly I wanted this to work. I love the set up I had planned for it (same as the pics on page 4) and how compact it is. This one won't "fool me twice" so I guess I'm going with a chugger now. This snapped off from purely...

First, thanks to you Thad for this incredible resource ... can't imagine how many people this has helped!! In regards to this Kenmore 8.8 CF freezer, maybe it's just the crack I smoked earlier but it looks like the data summary doesn't match the CAD drawings. It's listed as allowing a max of...

I tried my first whirlpool last week and also had miserable results. I was afraid all the fittings and diptubes in the BK would disrupt the circular flow too much so I drained from the BK through my plate chiller and into an older BK with no holes or attachments. I then stirred for 5 minutes...

+1 to the STC-1000 temp controller. I've built 4 now for $30 a piece (if you already have your own spare power cable). I have mine strapped to a keg / carboy with bungee cords just like Rustym has his in the pictures above. I just use a washcloth folded over a couple times as the insulator...

I just finished a bourbon barrel stout and I took 2 ounces of oak chips and soaked them in Bulleit bourbon for a month, poured off the bourbon and then racked the stout from the primary onto the oak chips in the secondary. The first tasting I thought the bourbon profile was pretty bold, but it's...

Hi there, I have a question - or maybe several questions - about the effectiveness of whirlpooling when you have equipment sticking out into the middle of your BK. I currently have a 10 gallon pot with a weldless bulkhead and ball valve, but I'm in the process of building a keggle and will be...

I have envisioned doing this this for a while now but haven't pulled the trigger so I'm glad to find someone doing it with success. I'll be doing this for now on with all my beers. One question: to eliminate any proteins / micro trub and the need to decant and add to sanitized water, could this...

I have envisioned doing this this for a while now but haven't pulled the trigger so I'm glad to find someone doing it with success. I'll be doing this for now on with all my beers. One question: to eliminate any proteins / micro trub and the need to decant and add to sanitized water, could this...

Haha, I had a decent amount of cider at the point of numbering those questions! :mug: Well here's where I'm at a day later. I opened one of the recapped plastic soda bottles after work and it foamed up about a quarter of an inch. Wow, only took 24 hours to get it back to where it needed to...

Ok so I turned into that guy that let this carb too long and ended up with all gushers. Where I went wrong was using WL 775 English Cider Yeast. This yeast has a very high floculation rate and so I got very little yeast in my bottling bucket because it was all clumped up at the bottom of the...

Thanks for the reply CWI! The dip tube was the only consideration I could think of as well. I thought about fabbing up some kind of shallow ramp inside the cooler to keep the beer at the bottom of the tank...with the dip tube at the bottom obviously. Doing this may not allow you to completely...

Thank you, after hours of googling I finally found someone with the same thought as me. My question / thought is this: instead of worrying about coils or plates and hauling around a cooler + kegs + Co2 + ect ... why not just get a cooler big enough to put the keg INSIDE of it, covered in ice...