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Hello from North Palm Beach!

Thanks!

Very nice. What did you do to avoid hitting a coolant line when you drilled through?

Thanks. I have tried sandpaper, dowel, and razor blade. Very tedious and not 100% effective. I will try hot sparge water to flush anything out.

Does anyone have any tricks for removing bits of cpvc that are loosely attached to a manifold after the slots have been cut with a hacksaw?

Very nice recipe. I scaled this up based on my 70% efficiency including the vienna plus added a pound of carapils. Fermented with SO4.

I am now doing 10g batches. To increase the variety, i dry hop 5g and leave 5g per the original recipe.

10gallon water keg for serving one corney keg strapped to a hand truck

Do your homework to find out the pressure at your house versus pressure required for the natural gas burners. I found some burners that required 11 inches of water column (pressure) when my house regulator only supplies 4 inches of water column. I never found a natural gas burner for 4 inches WC.

Thanks to the OP for asking the question and to the others for the replies. A sightglass for my boil kettle is probably my next step and these issues were on my mind. The only thought I have to offer is that I plan to use my autosyphon to pump oxyclean through the sight glass assuming I can...

I am in this boat right now. My problems seemed to start when I went to 10g batches. I had cooling issues (IC not big enough), equipment issues (manifold came apart), possible salt addition problems (measuring grams on a 12lbs rated scale, now using teaspoon conversions). My house recipe...

TH, Thanks again for the spreadsheet. What do you use to determine your (mash, sparge, preboil, batch) volumes? xx qts/lbs for mash? xx gal/lbs for grain absorbtion? % gal/hr boiloff? Thanks, Steven

Yes. Before you tighten the nut to attach the regs to the tank, position the gauges so the face is up. The gauges will stick out to the right for example and the hoses will stick out to the left.

Well I thought I was done. I am modifying my copy of the EZ spreadsheet for basic mash/sparge water volume calculations. Based on the above, I am using 10% for a standard boil off rate. In addition, I am using 1.25 qts/lbs of grain for mash water and 0.1g/lbs for grain absorbtion. :mug:

Thanks dstar26t and Bobby_M. I appreciate the help. :mug:

OK. I think you just agreed with my original post. Should I be adding salts based on boiling off 10% even though I know that I will sparge with more water based on boiling off 18%?

I did a little reading on howtobrew.com. It seems that some of the minerals or compounds may breakdown/boiloff/dropout as a result of the boil. My basic premis that the water boils off and leaves the "salts" behind may not be valid. I still don't get it...

I need a simplified water adjustment answer. I recently changed boil pots. The new one is much wider and my boil off rate has increased from 10% to 18%. When I use the EZ_water_adjustment spreadsheet, it has me increasing salts compare to the smaller pot. I realize this is because I am...

Mine connects with female CPVC to male brass nipple. Commonly found at Lowes, nothing special. I will add that on my last batch my PVC manifold came apart on me. It had been taken apart roughly a dozen times for cleaning and had become loose. I bought the smallest SS screws Lowes had to...

JesseRC reply was based on keeping the hops separate on a second attempt. For the batch with the hops, it did calm down quite a bit but was more hoppy than the one without. I plan on doing the exact same thing next batch.