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I have no way to solder or weld the two together, otherwise I would. I wish I could, and when I get a propane torch I plan on doing so. I have many projects that a torch would be helpful in but do not have the funds right now to get one

I posted up a reply on Sunday but it doesn't look like it worked. Oh well, I switched the flow to bottom up and put the valve on the input side (so I won't blow myself up). I have not had time to mess with the coils or mount it yet but I should have time this week. I am a noob to flash...

Alright I will see what I can do, I should have some time this weekend. Thanks for the help!

I will try dropping something down the middle and see if that helps. Would a lid of some sort help too? I was running water from the bottom up but read something on here that said for single coils, or rigs without a center manifold, it was more efficient to run it the top down. I will switch...

I have been running it at about 1/3 of a gallon a min so its going pretty slow, any slower and gets shakey from the steam sputtering (I will be solid mounting it to my brew stand soon so that won't be a problem). What do you mean by turbulent flow? More obstructions for the hot gasses as they...

So after stumbling across a few threads on here and finding some home depot gift cards in an old pile of stuff I decided to make a flash boiler. I am running 2 20' 3/8" copper coils inside of a 6" aluminum tube, some brass fittings and high temperature hose. I am using a hurricane burner...

I will look into it thanks!

Hi everyone, I am looking for advice on brewing schools, any help or tips would be sweet. I know UCD has a few programs, one through the school where you get a BS and the master brewers program at the local brewery Sudwerks. I am a jc transfer student and I applied to UCD to do there brewing...

I was watching something on the history channel about beer that had a Sam Adams segment where they were talking about some new beer they were making that was like 18%. It talked about how they had conditioned special yeast for years to get it to stay alive in that much alcohol. Sam Adams does...

Like the title says, how old do you have to be to work at a brewery? I am looking for a summer job and it would be pretty sweet to get some experience at a local micro brewery. I am just curious if there are any regulations regarding people under 21 making alcohol Thanks

Yeah its not all that ground breaking but at least its not another experiment out of the boring lab book. The need for a paper is needed to prove to my teacher that I did isolate what I claim to I did brew a small 2.5 gallon batch with some hop extract that I extracted from some pacific...

I have not tried the chemical society website yet but my school has something similar to scifinder as well as the interlibrary loan program. Its just a matter of searching the right terms which apparently havent yet. Nothing yet, I need to show my teacher an article before I can start...

Thats the problem I have been running into, seems like all the articles old enough to have simple technology are not available to me

The a acids are all very similar, really doubt that boiling points are very far off. Most of the molecule is the same just a different R group comming off the ring

Dont really have much NMR skill, just learning all that right now. I have been reading that you can get more out with a polar solvent which is why I am leaning towards ethanol. Not sure about the iso or raw, though after an hour boiling in ethanol, if that is how I end up extracting, then iso...

Thanks for the responses. I forgot to mention I had access to solid and liquid IR too, not that it will really help without separating the compounds. Thanks for the articles I will have to check them out at school tomorrow all I can get right now is abstracts. When I was looking yesterday I...

I am doing a special project in my organic chemistry class and am wondering if there is a fairly simple way to characterize the compounds I extract. I plan on boiling hop pellets in a ratio of 3g of hops in 25ml of ethanol for an hour, then cooling and filtering and drying under vacuum. I did...

I agree you should see mine, all we had was a drill, a 1/2" bit, a hack saw and a hammer. Needless to say there was blood and the outcome is down right scary

How do you plan on sealing the pvc with the bottle? All those brass fittings can add up on a college budget, digging the $2 price tag