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I use a sparge arm that acts like a sprinkler and i dont drain out before sparging. I was taught to have the mash tun drain as fast as the sparge water is coming into it and to keep water over top of grains at all times. I never heard of draining it out first and leaving just grains to sparge...

Noticed that when adding fruits it doesnt give you an option for color. I added prickly pear to mine and it would be nice to see the color change it imparts on a beer recipe. Wondering if i added it wrong or if bs just dont do that.

While everyone is on hops and ibu's i got a question. I just got the beersmith 2.0 software and started adding some of my recipes. One in perticular puts hops in at different times of the boil to get more complexity from the hops. I noticed beersmith just has how much hops. How do you get it to...

Sterilize it and throw a beer in it. It wont smell like plastic after that.

I will get a part list and some pics together and post it for you

Well you are right about trial and error after fermenting for 4 days this ones turning out fruity. I only put 7 cups of prickly tea in it. I think i am gonna adjust the prickly pear and some grain also next batch. I am gonna wait until this one finishes before i make the final desicion on how...

Yes it holds real nice had it up to 30 psi to test it and check for leaks

Im closing valve and hooking up co2 tank to rack. push everything out at about 4 psi Next time.

Ive noticed that it dont perk a hole lot thru the airlock because of the air space. Purge your fermonter with oxygen after pitch yeast should clear out any unwanted air in tank and oxygenate your wort real nice. I dont think the co2 built up in top of fermentor is gonna cause any trouble or...

Well i checked on my beer in this new conicle today after 3 days and noticed that its perking real good however a couple of key notes here. First the half inch ball valve on bottom for yeast rackoff has a drip to it. Not much got a quarter size spot under it. I racked off some yeast today and...

Well after 3 days in fermentor yeast is going wild its perking like crazy. Sneaked a sample its real hoppy still. Hope that mellows when finished. Just have to see how it is in a few weeks ill keep you posted.

Figured out what happened. When i baught the grains they left out the white wheat malt. I thaught the grains were light. I should of checked the reciept before i left the store. Next time ill have them put the grains in seperate bags so i can double check.

Have to wait until beer done thats in it now. But could post them after that. I tested it with 30 psi and no leakes so good setup.

Simple really took some rubber "D" weather strip took screws out put the weather strip on the inner edge of ring and ran a bead of silicone around outer edge next to weather strip and reinstalled with scews. Then used same weather strip on lid edge to seal when closed. Since its rubber and non...

Well i brewed this yesterday. Not sure if i did something wrong but wanted 10 gal batch so doubled recipe but to land at 1.055 start i could only get 5 gal out of it. The color was real light also. Not sure what happened here

Well the right conical finally showed up. I hit ace hardware and picked up some parts and wala ferminter. I sealed it and added a fitting on top for an airlock or to add co2 tank to push beer out. Just put a 5 gal batch in it to try it out. Should be drinking it in few weeks. Heres a pic

Have you tried step mashing this recipe? Was wondering if it would change the whole beer or would come out close the same. Seems a little light on the grain to me so was wondering if stepped would it render more eficiency and possibly stronger beer and darker color.

Thanks been checking his stuff out

Thanks for the link im gonna try to seal the black ring with a standard rubber gasket from auto parts. You can get the make your own gasket material in sheets and cut it out to fit. Plan on using same rubber material to make gasket for lid. I decided to use a fitting like his on the top except...

Thanks let you know how it turns out am brewing it this saturday.