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Yes, everything is correct. I ran sanitizer through first, and merely moved the micromatic over to the new keg right afterwards.

I admit, I'm a bad beer drinker. I haven't had a keg since college, a long time ago. I just got a True TDD-2 kegerator, and got it up and running today. So, I did what any other man would do and immediately got my CO2 bottle filled and a fresh keg of Highland Gaelic Ale. If this goes well, I'll...

Red Hook. Maybe not the best beer, but the bottles are unique, plain, and labels are super easy.

So I have a few 7.5 gallon kegs. These are functional for home brew? I only brew 5gal batches and I figured the extra headspace in the larger kegs might create issues. If not, then I'm much closer to kegging than I originally thought.

I'm a n00b to brewing, but love it and and jumping in head first. I'm four batches deep and jumped the gun on buying a kegerator yesterday. Now I need help. What I have is a True commercial kegerator. It's got two cooled towers, plumbing, and a CO2 tank with a regulator. Now comes the...

My tactic was simple, I hit up a bunch of used resaurant equipment businesses. They generally buy lots at auction, and then refurbish the equipment for resale. If you can catch a lot coming in, you can get a deal if you make an offer prior to them refurbing it. I negotiated a deal on one in...

Negs, the one I got was a wee bit closer.

I probably won't be using it for a while. I'm still a bottler, so this is step one into kegging. Now I need to find corny kegs and start getting serious.

Deal done! Got a CO2 bottle, keg, three towers, lines, and a bunch of handles out of the deal too. It was worth all the drive time.

I just got an opportunity to pick up a True kegorator about an hour and a half from home. It is mine if I want it, but I have to get it today. $400 for a restaurant style 2 keg double door unit. Black sides, stainless steel top. Worked when unplugged, "sounds" like it works now, and is going...

I came across cases of 50Back for 10 bucks a couple months ago. Plain brown longneck bottles, should be easy. I bought four cases and figured even if the beer sucked, $10 for 24 bottles was a deal, and the beer is for a good cause. But damn those labels. Soaking took the label off, but left...

All the searching and I never came across that thread. I'm just going to sit in the corner and hang my head in shame for a while.

We did, but it was said that not mixing well normally resulted in lower readings. This might be it though. I normally poor my wort in and then top off using my pull down faucet. I don't mix it with a spoon, but I make sure I get a good swirl going on from the water coming out of the faucet...

:D Great minds think alike. Posted while I was adding the info.

One other thought that might help. This is how I take my readings. After I've cooled the wort, added it to the bucket and topped it off, I use a beer thief to pull my sample. I place my hydrometer in the test tube and drop the sample from the thief until it floats. I spin and take the reading...

The first batch was the only batch I added anything to. There is absolutely no magic to the procedure. I'm using a 16 quart stock pot on a glass eye stove to do partial boils. I generally boil three gallons to start with, that way I've got room to stir when I add the malt. It generally takes...

I wish I could drink six in a sitting. Right now I'm drinking copious amounts of Red Hook just trying to get some bottles for all the beer I've got to brew in the coming weeks. I've got a Kolsch ready to bottle and I'll need at least two more batches to fuel the big party in May. I did get a...

Alright, I've already gone down this road once, and I convinced myself that I was bat**** crazy. My first batch, a stout, yielded me 8%. I just thought that was cool. It was way stronger than predicted, but I added a pound of brown sugar to it so I didn't think anything of the bigger numbers...

Understood. That's why I asked in the first place. This OG makes no sense to me.

Nope, I used the thief since the bucket was on the floor.