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Microphobik, Are you running your flow control faucets wide open? If so, you might try shortening you lines slightly until you start having to crank up your faucet control to compensate. I'll be facing the same issue soon - I ordered longer lines and a flow control nozzle at the same time. I'll...

No new ideas from me. I got what I was looking for with the lid fitted with gas-in and liquid-out posts. I did see that the ecojarz place does sell stainless steel bands. So, in theory, one could make an extra thick band to hold a ferrule to a jar. That would be a chore though.

Finally! A voice of reason. Are growlers designed to hold pressure? Couchy is right! They hold beer. Ever hear the "pffst" when you open the top of the growler - that's pressure. And when a beer is carbing, the pressure in the head space does not exceed the equilibrium of the beer...

Btaz, The link you provided for your blog seems to be dead. Can you post your summary? In particular, I'm looking for the water profile that you used. Thanks in advance!!

I tried adding CaCl to a glass of beer - about 0.1 grams in 12 oz (approximately 1 gram per gallon equivalent). It did bring up the maltiness slightly. It's not oxidation. I've beaten that problem in to the ground. After oxygenating the wort prior to pitching yeast, the beer doesn't see...

Azazel, The additions to the distilled water were gypsum only - on the order of 4 grams for the batch. I'll probably trying dosing a glass with some calcium chloride to see if that improves the flavor at all. Basically, what I'm noticing is a "flatness" in both the hop flavor and the malt as...

Oljimmy, Where do you draw the line (in time) between bittering and flavor additions? In other words, if I wanted to increase hop flavor, what would I adjust in the above hop additions - for example, would I increase the 30 minute addition to two oz of Simcoe? Or would I increase the flameout...

Agreed - perhaps my flameout additions aren't getting isomerized, but my 45 minute and 30 minute additions are effectively 55 and 40 minute additions. At least that was my thought process. This is a possibility. This was an extract batch - I've also been trying to address a haze issue so I...

Well, I'm getting closer at making a decent IPA. My last attempt was a Pliny the Elder clone using Vinnie's original posted recipe. Bitterness is there as well as aroma, but the flavor just wasn't there (I did a side by side comparison with a real, fresh Pliny). Here's the hop additions - I...

I will say that soldering stainless steel is a lot trickier than soldering copper. Copper seems to be more forgiving. Keep the metal clean, use some flux, and heat the copper until solder flows. I can't recall ever overheating copper and burning the flux off. But I sure did that when I tried it...

Perhaps the lack of comments is because not as many folks ferment in a sanke??? I don't think drilling two holes and soldering counts as advanced building skills. The soldering does take a little practice but if you use the stickie as a guide, you should be good. And the good thing about...

Chi Company sells these nipples: http://www.chicompany.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=376_1_3_260&products_id=3276 It says that both pin lock and ball lock posts fit them. It's not clear to me why those posts would only fit pin lock nipples. If ball lock and pin lock posts fit one...

Well, you know what I think - great solution to a messy chore! Plus you gave me the idea to turn my yeast harvester into a container that I could purge with CO2. So, thanks!!!

Ubermick, I gotta say, had I seen sight glasses at those prices when I had this idea, I may have just picked up a sight glass. Awesome deals there - I'll have to go back and see what other kind of shiny things I need. I will say that if one wanted just the original concept - a ferrule soldered...

Understood. Good luck getting it right. I never could successfully bottle any light colored beers. Stouts were fine - dark beers couldn't get any darker and there was enough going on flavor wise that I never noticed anything really bad. However, my favorite beer (an nice crisp IPA) would fail...

Nosoup, Check out the following for a terrific description of happens when beer meets oxygen: http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=&t=26869#_thread I struggled with IPAs - nice light color with great flavor out of the fermenter and dark and dull flavored out of the bottle...

JB, I scratched around a little and found a punch size that will give a hole size close to 1-3/8". The punch size is 1" and it makes a hole 1.362" in diameter - close to the 1.375 that you want. Here is where I found that info: http://m.grainger.com/mobile/product/GREENLEE-Punch-4A738 I...

JB, Be careful if you order a punch - a 1-3/8" punch will make a hole much larger than 1-3/8". I don't know what size punch is needed to make a hole of the size that you need. I think that the punch size is related to the size of conduit that is being used in panels along with the attachment...

The knockout punch will make a much cleaner hole. I looked around for an appropriately sized one but couldn't find one (but I didn't look all that hard). Plus I already had step bits. If you're going to butt your ferrule to your lid, I'd try to hunt down a punch. Otherwise you'll be spending a...

Just out of curiosity (and too much free time), I took a crack at reviewing the data in that figure. I replotted the data in Excel and fit a line to it - I got an R^2 value of 0.20. Then I tossed out the two values at 760 and 1200 ppm (I dismissed them out of hand) and the resulting R^2 drops...