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It wasn't as much "forgot" as kept pushing it off. I just started cold crashing my winter warmer in prep for kegging and realized I need to finally deal with the spices. It is a 5 gallon batch and I am supposed to add a quarter teaspoon each of clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg. I was considering...

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In theory, yes, but both my USB-C units stopped recharging after one or two uses. Really annoying because my older micro usb models still work fine. Luckily I have a battery charger that fits the cells in the units and they aren’t soldered in so I have to remove them each time. I put reference...

You could also see if something like this could be modified for your purposes: https://www.amazon.com/Strainer-Hairdresser-Adjustable-Stainless-Clamps%EF%BC%882pc%EF%BC%89/dp/B078S1ZGMZ It slips over the faucet ... I swear I saw someone else on HBT that used something similar (which is why I...

First thing to try is see how easy/difficult it is to remove the head. If it is a PITA or otherwise annoying you might want to come up with a different solution. If it is easy, unscrew it and bring it and your metal disconnect fitting to a hardware store and look for a plastic piece that will...

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Does the faucet have a pull-down sprayer? If so it is usually very easy to unscrew the head and you can attach at that point. (The head is effectively just a big aerator).

I clean my kegs with floating dip tubes on my Mark II Keg washer all the time.

Have you considered fermenting and serving in the keg?

Every time I go through the process of cleaning kegs and fermentation vessels and then purging and transferring from FV I tell myself that it would be so much nicer if I could do all that in a single vessel. Recently I bit the bullet and did a pressure ferment of a lager in a keg and it came...

At each stage of: Cleaning a keg Purging Cold crashing a bucket Autosiphoning from bucket to keg I think about pressure fermenting. A few weeks ago I finally broke down and got a spunding valve and tossed an extra floating dip tube i had in a keg. I fermented Oktoberfast at room temp / 20...

I don't there is anything you could have done on the low side to cause an issue. Nothing is absolute but the diaphragm is built for a pressure differential of hundreds of PSI and mucking up the low side would generally cause the differential to decrease. Besides, I believe the relief valve on...

Regulators are basically: CO2 -> Bottle Valve -> High Side Dial -> Regulator -> Low Side Dial -> Port Valve -> Keg so figuring out where the problem could be is a process of elimination. Isolate each side and test. With the bottle valve off / port valve open, do you get low side dial...

Are both your low-side valves 100% off?

If you are going to use a tell, consider making it relative to the headspace and not the depth of the wort. That is ... Add 1 gallon of water to the bucket and put your measuring rod in just above the water level. Mark the rod at the lip of the bucket with a "1". Add another gallon of water...

I can only speak to my experiences but I only trust the check valves to stop "impulse" type liquid events from backing beer into the manifold/regulator. That is, sustained gas back pressure will eventually work its way through the system. Maybe that's because I'm cheap...

I recently forgot to add something to an order from MoreBeer and called Customer Support a few hours after I hit submit. Not only were they able to add to the order (which is impressive given that they usually get stuff to me in two days) they also said "You didn't add the 15% off coupon we...

Alternatively, turn off CO2 and attach a spunding valve set to 12 psi. It's a toss up if this would be faster because while it is a constant release of pressure the equilibrium is 12 psi whereas the vent method has bouts of 0 psi to out-gas faster against. This certainly is the lazier way and...

If you have a dual gauge regulator .... Turn your CO2 off at the tank. Vent via PRV. The low side gauge will now read zero. Check on the low side gauge every so often. At some point it will stop rising. This is the pressure at which your beer is carbed to. If it is more than 12 psi, repeat from...

Rough calculations from your post: OG of 1.052 is ~12.9 Brix. FG of 1.024 is ~6.1 Brix. (Brix Conversion Calculator) Using the Refractometer calculator from the same site you get a corrected FG of 1.008. There's some "slop" in using a refractometer for both OG and FG. It would be better to...