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3/8" is enough? Since I am new to kegging, I guess it depends on how much I jostle the keg and redistribute the sediment. I suspect that if I cut (or bend) that the dip tube will rotate as I tighten the post and either hit the slope of the bottome of the keg or the side. Is this correct...

What is the best way to do this without kinking it? How far are you supposed to go to avoid sediment? I am thinking that I want to bend it to where the keg wall leaves the vertical and starts the bend to make the bottom. Thoughts? Thanks, Steven

I have used an Oxy type brillo pad to knock off the loose stuff. It helps...

Yes. Same yeast. I think that since the hops were added to the boil kettle and all of the break/trub/hops made it to bucket #2 made the difference. Had I kept the hops in a mesh bag and removed them at the end of the boil, the two would have been much closer. Maybe next time I will do...

A while back, I posted the following: My goal is to fill two corny kegs from a single batch. I am limited by my boil kettle (turkey fryer) to roughly 6 gallons. I am considering mashing and boiling to get 6 gallons of 1060 for example. Put 3 gallons in each fermenter bucket and top off each...

I am in the same boat. I am using 5' hose with picnic taps. I have coiled it (3 wraps) and tie wrapped into a loop. The loop sits on top of the keg with the tap hanging over the outside edge of the loop. The loop is slightly smaller in diameter than the top of the keg. When it is time...

I am new to kegging. Order #1: 2 keg system with dual body reg. High pressure gauge and bottle of starsan crushed during shipment. I noticed the starsan first, called, and they sent a replacement no questions asked. A couple of days later I noticed the gauge. They replaced no questions...

I am new to kegging with a 5lbs tank. My last fill was to 750 psi at 75 deg at the keg store. By weight it was only 1-2 pounds the best I could tell by my scale. I assume that most of my fill was gas and not 5 lbs of liquid CO2. Now that I have force carbed one corny keg, I see the needle...

Anyone change them out if beer is going in next? All 5 were new when the Apfelwein went in. Thanks, Steven

Thanks David 42. I am still making adjustments and hoping I can make the epoxy mixing sticks and 5ft lines work. The 30psi, 4.5 mixing stick pour is slow but still making bubbles in the line with OK carbonation left. I don't have a "taste" feel for carbonation levels but I guess it is...

I am new to kegging and have recently purchase a new kegging system. I have been testing with water so that I don't have to learn the hard lessons with beer. I have 5 foot, 3/16 lines on a picnic tap. Kegs and CO2 inside a regular freezer on top fridge. Top of the fridge compartment 42 deg...

I am new to kegging also. In the original post, Lodovico said that the first keg went without a hitch. I take that to mean his "system" is OK and the problem was introduced when the keg was changed. If the second keg is a different one, maybe the problem is with it. I read on another...

Thanks for the advice David. Instead of topping up with water, I would be topping up with wort. How would I account for hops usage with this method? Any advice on how to manipulate Beersmith? If I go with the partigyle method, I suppose I could take gravity measurements on the two...

Hello all! My goal is to fill two corny kegs from a single batch. I am limited by my boil kettle (turkey fryer) to roughly 6 gallons. I am considering mashing and boiling to get 6 gallons of 1060 for example. Put 3 gallons in each fermenter bucket and top off each with 2 gallons to get 10...

I used a hacksaw to cut notches at 1 gallon and drilled a hole at 1/2 gallons. Then I found it was a pain to count so marked the gallons with a sharpie. I don't really use it during the boil. If so it is only in for a moment. My boil kettle is marked on the outside with a sharpie which...

I have a bad habit of leaving the spigot down when I move my bottling bucket. I have broken a spigot this way. It was literally hanging on by a thread. This plus the sanitation issue keeps me from using the bucket with spigot as a fermenter. I chalk this up to a beginer's mistake. I now...

Mine came too with the same letter. :mug:

Thanks for the replies everyone. So, no one disconnects anything? Leave the system connected and under pressure and just enjoy on demand? If so, :mug: Thanks, Steven

Oh, I see that in my future. Murphy and I are long time friends.