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Aluminum is fine. Just create an oxidization layer before you brew with it. Put in 1 gal. of water and boil it off. then you are ready to go.

Bruno, my brewing partner and first born.

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What a great looking blue!

Great post! ICF is the best way to build a home. My father in law builds ICF homes and he is always talking about it. When we are ready to build we are going to use ICF as well. a little spendy upfront but you will recover your costs over time.

The other half gallon is fine. Might be that the recipe is off. Sounds like you did everything you could. The flavor will change in the next few weeks as it conditions in the bottle. I would bottle it and wait it out. Regardless it should be drinkable good brew. RDWHAHB :rockin:

Excellent, i'm in the Bellevue area myself. What i mean by a full boil is the complete volume? Duid you boil 5gal? or 3.5 and top up? Also, did you hit your numbers, OG and FG?

I'm very familiar with the beer and brewery. The brewery is local to me. The falvor of the beer is subtle as this is in an African Amber Ale. When chilled and aged for a little bit the flavor will be fine. Did you do a full boil?

Airlock activity is not a good indicator of fermentation. Gravity readings are the only way to know for sure. What is the type of beer and what yeast did you use? 42 seems low for an Ale Yeast. EDIT: Just saw that this was a lager...What JLem said ;)

What is the recipe and type of beer? Primary, secondary, if so how long? More info please. Most beers should be pretty close to their flavor profile at the time of bottle. But i have experienced that most beers will get better with age.

Never experienced this before but i would swirl it a little. Check in a day or two. if nothing pitch some more yeast. What type of yeast did you use? While 70 seems a little high for me it is with in the recommended range.

Awesome. That is exactly what i was hoping to hear, thanks for the information. All of the websites i look at say not to run the pump dry. Was not sure if a few seconds while the line clears would be okay. The last thing i want to do is break a new pump when i get my system up and running.

Thanks C_F those look really good. I'm going to find sometime to get this done to a few of my bottles. Love the logo by the way.

I plan to sparge through the HEX the entire time. I'm a software engineer by education and trade and never really worked much with plumbing, please excuse my ignorance. As i run though the scenarios in my head i figured there would be a point where i run out of sparge water and the empty air...

Thanks. This sounds like a great back up plan. But there has got to be a valve you can use the will bleed the lines for you. I guess the other option is to get a self priming pump.

I'm working on building my HERMS system. One question I have is how do people clear their lines of wort if they use a pump that can't run dry.

Would love to see pics. Was thinking of etching my bottles too.

I opted for the smaller opening. I did a dry run around a few times to confirm I had the arm extended as far as possible.

What if the rim around the keg is bent? If you look at the pic I just posted the rim on the top of the keg is flat on one side.