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Stranded copper connections need to be torked and re-torked again. It's soft enough to flatten and become loose.

I've always found one vile of WLP-300 per five gallons was perfect for a banana balanced hefe. Repitching I always get more clove.

Day 13 and Hazy still has not dropped. There still is a half inch of yeast on top. Both Hazy and Nectar are at 1.011, San Diego is at 1.010.

Hazy started blowing off first, nectar was second. San Diego never did. I have always prefered yeast that doesn't need so much head space. All of them are probably at FG. I'll check that soon. I need another empty keg before I dry hop.

I'm brewing a pale. It's going to be a spit batch with Apex San Diego, CellarScience Nectar and Hazy.

FLOTits work great. I've added the filters to the other ball floats I have and they work just as well. No nut is needed and no beer is left behind. Beter yet is not much yeast is in the last pour. I have the flotit filters on all of my balls.

There are many ways to make a mash tun.

I've always just used papers. It would be interesting to see how far it's been off.

It might pick up some oxygen cold crashing in a non-pressurized fermenting vessel. It wont in a pressurized keg. I made a couple of cold fermented lagers in buckets this winter. A week at 55 and a week at 65 then the cakes were solid enough to rack to kegs. Lager yeast tends to be powdery...

I think the Apex San Diego works best in this recipe. And then there is the turn around time.

34/70 was fermented in the high fifties and dry hopped in the keg cold for weeks. The other two were dry hopped in primary in the mid sixties for five days. Apex and the 34/70 were both more hoppy than the US-05. For some reason the US-05 version came out muted. I've used US-05 a lot so that...

I Like Plastic Fermenters.

I have a Flotit 2.0 filter in my allrounder. Ive never cloged the Flotit 2.0 filter in the serving keg transfering.

I've added the FLotit 2.0's filters to my ball floats and they work great. NO BEER LEFT BEHIND! And no yeasty glasses. Drop hops right in, no problem. I wish they were easy put together,

I split a fifteen gallon batch of a Citra pale ale with US-05, Apex San Diego and w34/70. I tapped the Apex first and it is gone. It seemed to me to have a more full hop flavor than US-05 that is on tap now. I haven tapped w34/70 yet.

I mostly use Morebeer and Williams. Williams has a nice box for liquid yeast. Both ship here fast.

The only issue I'm having with mine is that the feet are showing wear and denting in for setting them down on the concrete floor when full. That probably will be the point of failure. I have to be more careful.

If you carbonate elsewhere that five pounder is fine for serving many kegs,

I did a 15 gallon SMaSH today. 30 lbs Swaen Vienna and Spalter Select hops. I've never used this malt before. S-198 repitched into two and one with Mangrove Jack's Bavarian Lager. It's easy to keep my brew shed in the fifties right now. It should be a malt bomb. This was the first run with the...

I used to have one of the Mr. Beer fermenters, a four gallon pot and a paint strainer for small batches. That's as big as I have done BIAB. That was many years ago. I want more out of my time spent brewing now. Free time is hard to come by.