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Both are brand new, never used other than cleaned and put through the Passivation step I described. The top is a Spike brewing, bottom came with a conical from Stout Tanks.

Not sure that rust is the right word, but I have 2 brand new stainless racking arms with the same issue. There is a white powder and straw/brown discoloration inside both tubes right where the "indicator" rod was tacked onto the outside of the tube. I've scrubbed down to bare metal with...

Since I already had the uninhibited food grade glycol, here is what I picked up to treat it: https://www.chemworld.com/Propylene-Glycol-Corrosion-Inhibitor-p/f811-64.htm After doing some research, strongly recommend anyone else to go straight to a corrosion inhibited product whether that's RV...

Thanks, @Bobby_M I’ve already purchased 2 gallons of food grade (uninhibited) glycol to make 6-8 gallons of diluted solution. Any recommendations on product to treat it? I see now I probably should have gone down the RV antifreeze or Dowfrost route…

Hi All, Picked up a used window AC today, which was directly opened up for cleaning and examination. This being an older unit, there are some spots of surface rust on both the evaporator and condenser coils (mainly the sheet metal supports). I am pretty sure a wire brush and some tin snips will...

Haha, the suspense is killing me! Looks like new board shopping instead of playing with these dusty old ones...

Getting back into DIY brewing gizmos after a little bit of a break. What's got me most excited is controlling my glycol system and Brew Bubbles set up and integrated with logging. I noticed that a couple old boards that I had in my box of doodads will work with Fermentrack, but not With BrewPi...

Hot water soak and the good ol' wire BBQ brush has handled just about anything for me. Gonna have to try the Oxy Clean... Gonna be cheaper than using PBW.

Santa brought an new Tap-A-Daft system for Christmas! I am definitely going to try using the tap as-is (have a Nut Brown Ale just waiting for it). But I am already thinking about future modifications. one thought is leave the tap fully open and use a male/male hose barb to run an extension line...

+1 For Arrowhead. I use the mountain spring kind, and find it adds some needed backbone and clarity. The beers I have made using tap or regular drinking water have turned out somewhat flat or even fuzzy tasting to me. Breweries used to be situated near natural water sources, and brewed beers...

Haha! Maybe you should start, there may be a demand at local colleges as the FDA just banned it. Is there a freestyle category at homebrew competitions? Sooo tempted... ;)

Here's what I ended up going with based on ingredients I had on-hand: Organic Pale Ale Style: American Pale Ale Batch: 5.00 gal Partial Mash Characteristics --------------- Recipe Gravity: 1.052 OG Recipe Bitterness: 40 IBU Recipe Color: 11° SRM Estimated FG: 1.013 Alcohol by Volume: 5.0%...

Thanks, I love me some Kölsch. Just made a batch not too long ago for Halloween, and everyone loved it. Just a nice balanced brew. Some ideas I've been kicking around are: NZ "Kiwi" IPA (NZ Pacific Gem, NZ Rakau, NZ Hallertaur) Nut Brown (Pilgrim, Goldings) Wheat (Opal, Saaz)...

I've been brewing for about 8 months now, all mash-extract ingredient kits. Lately, I've been wanting to experiment with my own concoctions, and as such, ordered 2 organic hop sampler packs from 7 Bridges. Before me, I have: Pellets: 2 oz. Spalt Select (5.5% AAU) 2oz. New Zealand Saaz (7.3%...