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Just re-read the last part of your post, you should only use gelatin after the beer has been cold crashed as close to or below 35*F for a couple days and make sure the keg is in it's final resting place or put in it's final place very shortly after adding the gelatin. Fining a second time just...

I'll add that you should hold the PET bottle upside down before you connect to the keg otherwise you're gonna just shoot CO2.

I use a gelatin rocket. I make my gelatin solution, I add it a 20oz PET soda bottle, add a carbonation cap, carb the bottle to about 6psi above what the keg is at, then use a jumper to shoot the gelatin into the gas post of the keg. See picture below: I obviously don't normally have coke zero...

I would do one thing different than what that video does. I would hook up only the liquid lines to the kegs, burp the bottom keg (to start the liquid flowing) and then connect the gas lines of the kegs. If you have the gas lines connected when you burb, you're releasing the pressure from both...

like @RogerGrahl mentioned, the loss to kettle/trub has it's own field in the equipment profile, not the mash page in beersmith. That field is where you should also include any losses to tubing/counterflow chiller as well. There is also a separate field in the equipment profile for losses to...

Ok perfect, that's what I thought. I actually do the same things as you with the losses to kettle trub and chiller, and fermenter trub losses because who doesn't love crystal clear beer haha.

Just a question as I've never clicked that button as mine say "Adj Mash Volume for Losses" where as yours says "Adj Mash for Deadspace." If you have your Mash Losses field set to 0.00, I didn't think clicking that button would do anything for you since there are no losses to addjust for on the...

You can download the exact equipment profile in Beersmith that Spike created specifically for their systems. Have you done that? If you go to your equipment page in Beersmith, and click Equipment Add Ons, scrolle to Spike Solo Series (3) and add that, you'll then have the equipment profiles for...

Can I ask where you bought your WLP026 or did you have it on hand from a previous brew? I've been trying to get my hands on that yeast for a bit and since it's a vault strain I can't ever find it and have no idea when they last released it.

This is a great looking system! Would be ecstatic if I won. Fingers crossed!

If you spund I'm fairly certain you'll be fine. Worst case, put your spund tub into a blowoff container as well just in case.

I would personally just get a spunding valve and ferment under pressure in your keg. Set the spunding valve to 7-8psi and that should be plenty to keep that from happening. I use a Fermzilla All-Rounder with Voss before and I had my valve at 10psi I believe and never had more than an inch of...

I felt that grain in wort pain so much I switched to not using the basket and using The Brew Bag. I'll be honest, it's a kick in the nuts to just see my basket sitting on a shelf unused, but my brewdays are so much more enjoyable now not having to babysit that thing and my efficiencies are...

I hope I'm replying correctly to what you're asking about, but I have the steam hat for my Spike 15g solo+ system and I 100% use either of the ports on the steam hat to recirculate my wort during the mash. I have stopped using the Spike basked and have switched to a Brew Hardware false bottom...

Consider buying a refractometer instead of hydrometer. If you don't care about actual alcohol measurements, a refractometer will be a better tool for judging if your FG is stable (though making alcohol measurements will require a special calculator). It only requires a few drops to get a...

Very good to know. Thank you for the heads up. May only buy one when it comes in stock to test it out. I already have the Nuka taps (and totally agree with you, they're absolutely amazing), so maybe my experience will be different and either way, I'll report back and give everyone another...

He is asking about using this for sparge unless I'm misreading it. So in that case there wouldn't be any alcohol present.

They don't advertise if very much, but Keglan also makes a flow control ball lock connector. This puts the flow control at the keg instead of the tap and from what I've seen it works much better there. Unfortunately they're always out of stock here in the states, but if you can find them in...

Usually it's because a finer crush wears the rollers out faster and the shop would have to replace them more often. Most would hope some shops won't do it because they want to sell more grain, but you never know. That being said, I've ran into similar issues, and even though I'm now using a...

Curious, did you cold crash before you transferred? Also, with that particular fermenter, there's a good amount of headspace. I'd look into using hop bags and magnets for your dry hopping needs. Put your dry hops in a sanitized mesh back at the very beginning before sealing up, and use magnet...