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Dry-hopped an IPA and took a gravity reading/taste test. First brew in a new kettle and new hoses (was starting to suspect my old keggle/hoses/fittings were contributing to a few not so great batches even with what I thought was proper sanitation) and the flavor is great so far. The aroma is...

I always used a siphon for transfers into carboys. The Auto-siphon was my favorite piece of equipment for quite a while.

I had it set like the pics below. Pretty sure it's as you described. I only have the 10 gallon so the radius from center of burner to sight glass is going to be a couple inches shorter than your 20 gallon, I'd imagine. Thanks for the input. I'll keep playing and figure out what works.

of course I meant sight glass, haha.

Brewed my first batch in my new Boilermaker G2 yesterday and spent the entire boil trying to prevent the site glass from boiling over. It really put a damper on the brew day. I plan on trying to reverse the way I put the heat shield on next time to see if that helps but was hoping someone here...

I just made a starter for a brew this Sunday. I'll probably pull it off Sunday morning, chill and decant some then get it back on the plate until I'm ready to pitch.

Went out and splurged on a new Blichmann G2 kettle, cleaned that and got it ready for it's inaugural batch this weekend. Will be making a yeast starter shortly.

How did you get from anvil spigot to beer disconnect? It looks like you have a different barb than I do. I just got a 1/2" to 1/4" barb reducer to help me a little but feel like there's got to be a better way than hose from the anvil to the reducer then another hose from reducer to beer line and...

There's these. https://ballandkeg.com You still won't know exactly where the trub starts but it would probably still help.

more for silliness than anything else but a play on words with me and a brew buddy's last names. Instead of a dually truck with 4 back tires, I created a dually mule with 4 rear legs.

I'm sure my answer is on this forum a million times so I apologize but I am terrible at searching this site. Usually when I force carb I do the method of high pressure for 36 hours or so then serving pressure until it's ready. Normally, after the higher pressure I'd turn the gas off, vent...

Same. I could not believe how clean the bottoms of my last two kegs were after cold-crashing those batches. Edit: and to chime in about how to cold crash. I just used a plugged up stopper in my anvil SS bucket fermenter and had no issues whatsoever.

Some variance in BF's calculation for evaporation and your system's actual evaporation maybe? Are you getting a nice rolling boil? I don't use BF so I can't get into too much detail but are you sure your estimated boil size and boil time are correct on there?

This is a great idea. I just clogged my anvil fermenter trying to take a sample for a gravity reading. I'll blow that out with a little co2 but definitely going to go this route for future batches.

Had to go grab ingredients for a brew this weekend and decided I'd look to see if they had any bulkhead/post setups that I could use and they did not. I could have pieced something together but I was already spending enough on what I needed so at around $10 a part I decided I'd wait. Then I got...

Got it, that's a great idea too! Thanks!

Will be brewing a Rye IPA for my daughter's birthday party next month. Each daughter gets a beer named after her and brewed annually for of-age party goers to enjoy in their honor. This will be my 7th batch of this particular beer which means I have an almost 7 year old. Blows my mind every time...

Solid! definitely going to rip you off here. I'll be sure to cite you in my brewing notes. This seems like a good idea too but let me make sure I'm following. Instead of pushing gas through the fermenter, you put an airlock with sanitizer/vodka in it into the gas post so as the beer fills the...

I'll probably enjoy a few more than I plan to while watching some hockey today. BTW, the Mrs. still a little bummed that it wasn't actually hello fresh. Hope someone can grant for you soon!

Got the package yesterday! Great haul, thanks!