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Hmm, I was under the impression that if you bought large enough quantities, Amazon could be fairly reasonable. But I buy from Red Rock Minnesota. Used to be you had to have your calculator out when trying to find the deal on that site, but last time I looked, there were helpful hints. I...

For me, RO is only $0.30 per gallon (Glacier machine), so way cheaper ($1.50 vs $6.50). But there are a lot of brewers around here that don't have a Glacier machine near them and it seems like Primo is everywhere in Charlotte. --Dale--

That's word. Thanks for the confirmation. It is covered by the cell comment, but it wasn't sinking in. I was leaning in the direction of "these values are tiny, maybe I shouldn't worry about it", but in trying to google to be sure, I came across this thread and figured I'd post. Now this...

I'm TRYING not to screw-up, hehe. I just got back my analysis of some primo bottled water. It came back like this: pH - 7.3 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm - 37 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm - 0.06 Cations / Anions, me/L - 0.5 / 0.5 Sodium, Na - 2 Potassium, K - < 1...

It's my experience that it takes 16 grams of CO2 to force carb and another 16 grams to deliver. I have modified some taps (old TAD and MHD, but not new TAD) to allow forced carbonation. This way, I can drink the beer the day after I rack into the bottle. So yes, it takes more CO2, but it's...

I have both types. 8 gram cartridges are cheaper by the gram, so that's the main reason I like to use the old style tap. The new style tap has a flakier connection between the cartridge and the tap. I'm still using the box of 16 gram cartridges that came with the newer tap, but I even use the...

No. Do not buy threaded. If you jump to about 10:30 in this video, you'll see the cartridges they sent with the kit (unthreaded).

Youch! Red rock minnesota sells 16 gram cartridges for half that price, delivered right to your door. I'd take 'em back to the LHBS just based on the price. Genuine Innovation sells threaded and non-threaded cartridges. If they are non-threaded, I would suggest that they probably will work...

Yeah, thanks. It was showing up for me, but I do have issues sometimes seeing those imbeded things. I've added a link.

This app was developed and tested on Windows, but I took out the Windows specific stuff and am releasing it as a jar file:http://www.filedropper.com/smithalyzermac . I did this because one of my mac-only brewing buddies wanted to try it. This version will work on both Windows and Mac, but...

The link would be http://www.filedropper.com/smithalyzer2. Its in the video. I didn't figure anyone would waste their time downloading it if they didn't watch the video first, hehe. --Dale--

Folks, I wrote some code to translate the Recipe.xml file to an html file which is interpreted by jsGantt to show a gantt chart of your brew schedule. I had to shift all of my "junk" to an earlier year (the software only picks up current stuff). But it looks pretty nice, if I do say so...

You all are way smarter than I am! But I doubt anyone has spent less on their equipment, hehe. Consistency of the el-cheapos I got from Hong-Kong - So far very accurate. I've had them for about 3 months, tested them all at boiling and ice when I first got them, but didn't have the...

I've seen some pretty advanced brewers screw up on mash temperature for lack of good measurements. Even with expensive thermometers, the mash temperature varies hugely within inches. Brewers are able to "dial in" crappy equipment over many batches, but that can be an expensive proposition as...

Guys, If you're having trouble sleeping, here's a video that compares the 16 gram taps and bottles. --Dale--

Usually I utilize the little molded-in feet, but they are sometimes not aligned with the tap. So what I've done, pretty ghetto, is just save-up the wads of aluminum foil that my better half is throwing out. When I get enough of it, wad it up somewhat lightly in one mass, then smash the bottle...

You can buy a tap-a-draft for $70 and you won't need an additional refrigerator. Or if you live in a place where they still sell millercoors homedraft, you can buy one or more of those at about $20 each (pretty close to the same as the tap a draft). It's much easier than bottling, and frankly...

I suspect that the bag is connected to that special cap, and that there's a second hole in the cap where the air from the air pump gets shot in there, but has anyone done any analysis of how this works? If someone from St. Louis wants to send me an empty, I'll make a video of my analysis...

I can tell you from experience that you can use nitrous oxided to dispense beer. True, it is not the same as nitrogen, but your beer will be fine. The OWT that nitrous will oxidize beer is crap. Point one, from experience, a friend of mine and I took 6 liters of bourbon aged Foothills...

Less beer lost, hehe. They are not counting the beer all over the floor when you try and rack into one of those suckers. That's going to be a rpita. I'm glad I've got a big backlog of old MillerLite Home Draft units (out of date, returned and dumped by the distributor). From their earlier...