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Ok long story short, when I had my two SSbrewtech 7 gallon BME conicals, I had zero problems going from a 70°F diacetyl rest to 34°F cold crash. I also had a 8 gallon Brewers Hardware jacketed conical that also had zero problems cold crashing. I've recently upgraded my batch sizes and bought a...

Thank you very much for the info. If it wouldn't be too much to ask, would you be willing to measure out 6 gallons of water and see if it will get it down to 35°? I'm ready to buy one but if it can't do 6 gallons of wort and get it down to 34°, I'll end up having to just get the 7 gallon Unitank...

Aren't the extension coils only for the older style conicals? I thought the unitanks are welded in coils? I need to be able to cold crash. I have the glycol system but have been having some trouble cold crashing both my Spike CF15 as well as my brewershardware 14 gallon single wall that I've...

Wow nice setup. So do you have a UV light on yours? 2ppm is super low. What is your incoming ppm? Did it have a break in period to get that low? Mine went down to 4ppm when I was doing the 60min flush, but now it's back up to 14ppm. Also just went to fill up two 32oz bottles for starsan spray...

Thanks man! Yeah so basically I ran two straight pieces of 1.25" copper tubing that go about an inch into the keezer, up to the elbow, then connect to a copper elbow, the straight pieces and tees for every tap. Then to another elbow and back down to the other side of the keezer. I wrapped the...

Just curious but how are you guys dealing with insulation? Are you lines staying cold and not foaming? Any condensation? I'm just finishing mine up but with how I made it, there is no way I'm going to tear it all apart to get to the lines. I bought good lines so hopefully with good maintenance...

It's not that we have bad water per say, it's just really really hard water. I like to keep my beers consistent across the board and some have a very low mineral profile like my pilsners, which I wouldn't be able to do with tap water. I always start with a clean slate and build my water profiles...

Yeah nothing wrong with that for beginners. We actually are the only city around me that actually gets well water so we have really good water, it's just super hard. I've been using RO water for many many years and can't tell you how much I've spent on it to date, but it's a lot. I always build...

One other thing I learned during this build and I should say for anyone thinking of adding a RO system, plan out your space and design accordingly. Luckily I won't have to change out the RO membrane too often(hopefully), but the way I have it makes it impossible to change the membrane. You have...

Damn! $300? Quick guesstimate is 15BBL batches? Yeah that part definitely has to be taken into consideration when looking at the price. That was almost $1k of the price tag alone. I bought the house almost 2 years ago now and rebuilt the master bath shower completely in tile. Put a $300 shower...

I think I spent around $2300 for the stuff from Buckeye after shipping. I found the ROmate from freshwater for $330 shipped. Then I spent another $150-200 or so on miscellaneous quick connect elbows, 1"ball valve for the ROmate, other fittings that I had to rig up for the UV light, etc. I had...

So now that I've upgraded to doing 10 gallon to 1/2BBL finished batches, it is a PITA to be carrying all those 5 gallon jugs back and forth to the RO water station. Plus having all those jugs taking up space in my garage sucks. I figured after 7 years of brewing, and upgrading my batch size, it...

Yeah, honestly I go through way too much wort on a starter to make it worth doing in an Instapot anyways. I'm going to pick up the All American 41qt pressure canner. It's pricey at ~$500 shipped but I just upgraded to 10gallon and 1/2 BBL batches so the yeast is getting really expensive even...

Interesting...so a few questions on that note. 1. I have a 6qt Instapot so I would imagine it would be the same time settings? 2. How many jars can you fit in it at a time? 3. Do you put the lids on and then screw the cap band all the way on? Also, are you reusing the lids? 4. Will doing...

Totally forgot about this thread. That's interesting..only 4 packs in stock and they've went up $2 putting the cans at $3/can now. The 24 packs are still out of stock so I imagine they'll be back on there soon. $2.29/can if you buy it that way. Not too bad and I'll but then that way. I believe...

Hey guys! Looking for a little info. I'm looking to buy the SS 14 gallon Unitank next week. I already have a Spike CF15 and found that it needs about 6.5-7 gallons of wort minimum for the cooling coil and temp probe to be submerged. I currently have 12 gallons of beer in it and it's handling...

Help from the man himself...Thank you Martin! Now if I can just get my pH issue being off fixed I'll be good to go. I even tried another program and still came up at a 5.48 when I was shooting for a 5.2.

So I just upgraded to Bru N Water 5.3. I was able to get everything transferred from my old version successfully. I only have about 10 recipes that transferred due to losing all my old saved recipes. In the new download instructions, it says to rename all the "Roast Malt" to just "Roast". None...

I've never used either of those. I've only used lager yeasts, 1056/001, 1318, Conan and a few other regular IPA or ale yeasts. I'm working on getting some Acid #5 to use to run though all my conicals and kettles(having a really hard time finding it though). My IPA I mentioned above with 1056...

I have a 220v RIMS system so it's pretty easy to adjust temp. What temp exactly should I mash out at to completely stop the process?