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Just a quick follow up on bottling... Did a pressure transfer from conical to keg on Saturday - a few lessons learned to address next time I do that (like pull the relief valve on the CO2 purged keg prior to hooking the beer transfer line up to the conical). Anyway, based on the amount of...

That's odd. I don't remember it taking that long to get lids. I'm having an issue with another vendor though that is related to the longshoreman strike on the west coast. Maybe there's a shipping container full of stainless steel canning jar lids sitting outside of Los Angeles harbor. My tri...

paguy, Here you go (from Post #9): http://www.ecojarz.com/products/3-pack-reusable-stainless-steel-jar-lids/ I harvested yeast the other day prior to dry hopping. Easy peasy - just detach the mason jar and pour yeast into a clean, sanitized fresh jar. But, you don't really even have to do...

FirstAid, I'd definitely still use the Campden tablet on the tap water. They're pretty cheap and it doesn't take much chlorine to ruin a batch of beer. Insurance is cheap! Cheers!

Meirhof, When are you going to take that rig for a test drive? Looking forward to seeing that in action. It's given me some ideas as well. If your system works out, I may make changes to mine. Cheers!

With that much yeast, I'm not sure I need a starter. I suppose I could fill half pint jars and pitch one of those in a batch. I guess I should figure out how to figure out how much yeast I have.

Ah! Now I'm on the same page with you. Looking forward to seeing what you end up with. I'm not counting on a jar full of air to provide enough O2 to make the yeast happy. What I did was to attach the emptied jar, let it refill with trub, add yeast, and drop in an O2 stone for about a minute of...

Maierhof, I'm curious to see what your idea is. I was thinking about adding a gas post to the lid as well - sounds like for a different purpose though. I'd like it so that I could blow CO2 up through the cone to dislodge trub or yeast allowing it to flow down into the jar. It certainly worked...

Well, with a ball valve, there is nothing in the path of the flow when the valve is opened. With a butterfly valve, the "flapper" is always in the way - when the butterfly valve is open, the flapper is parallel to the flow but it is still in the flow. I used a quart jar on my 6 gallon batch...

Well, the conical is filled and the trub catcher is catching trub. I did as suggested - poured the wort in the conical and did not pitch the yeast; instead I let it sit for a day. Here is what I got: Not a lot of trub. I emptied the jar (I poured the clear wort back into the conical)...

Artifishal, Yes - I'm doing 5 gallon batches. The Zombie Dust recipe is actually 6 gallons. Maybe I should use the larger jar for both the trub and the yeast this first time through just so I have an idea about the volumes that are really needed. Looks like you have your jar all figured out...

Artifishal, Looks like you are getting your system figured out. You have a solution you're happy with yet? If all goes well, I'll have my first real test happening on Monday. I'm brewing a Zombie Dust clone. Since I do BIAB, I'll likely opt for a quart jar at first to catch the trub from the...

Well, looks like I'll be brewing this weekend so I did a bit of work to prep my conical. I added wheels. This gave me plenty of room for the mason jar. I'm currently doing a final leak test with water. Action photos attached.

Yes, that's my understanding as well. I don't know how important the distilled water is, but it's not going to hurt to use it. I've got some of the crappiest water in America (SoCal drought water) and I get 0.0 Brix and 1.000 sg with refractometer and hydrometer respectively when I check it out...

Phug, I'm pretty sure the cheap refractometers have a bad sg scale - the Brix might be right, but don't trust the sg scale. If I convert your Brix values to sg (with a default wort correction factor of 4%), I get 10.6 Brix is 1.041 sg and 12.5 Brix is 1.048 sg So, that's a delta of 7 and 8...

Good point about the crimped version - I forgot about those! The several dozen pins that I've done over the years I've soldered. If I needed to do as many as you've done, crimping would be the way to go!

alphaomega, DIN connectors aren't that bad (as long as the pins aren't potted in place - if they are, then I agree). I just use a pin extractor (link below) to pull the pin out of the connector, solder to the now bare pin, and then put the pin back into the connector. Unless I'm missing...

Artifishal, Good luck with Plan C! All, Just to be clear, the SS lids come with gaskets - no need to order gaskets separately. However, I do like having a few extras on hand.

Artifishal, As long as you end up with something that doesn't leak, I'd say you're good. If you decide to repeat with a stainless steel Eco Jarz lid, just be careful about the thickness of the gaskets - you'll probably want or need to cut those in half. Based purely on the little bit I read on...

Artifishal, Now I understand. I assumed that the white plastic part that the Nalgene attaches to is removable. I that case, yes, the canning jars will make storage of harvested yeast easier and allows for more flexibility in terms of a wide variety of jar sizes.