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I use a foodsaver a ton and I can tell you that it won't work. Won't seal well with the liquid. you might be able to get away with one of the models that has the moist seal and quick seal functions. As soon as it starts to suck liquid, hit the seal button. It might seal, depending how much...

S style airlock or 2 piece? The S lock should prevent suckback if not overfilled.

I just re-listened to the interview to make sure I understood correctly. Here is the link to the Basic Brewing podcast in which Chris White was the keynote at a New Zealand Homebrewers conference and most of his presentation was on oxygenation. May 12th, 2016 episode. He is a big...

I don't care if you put it in the mash or boil, just please post a picture/video when it gets done. Boil sounds like more fun, but more of a mess afterwards.

Asking/discussing out of ignorance here, not arguing: My understanding is that the oxygen is consumed very early during cell division then the yeast turns to all its attention to fermenting sugars, which is basically anaerobic. At this point the fermentation process is putting off a ton of...

To the OPs question, I have a fast ferment conical and buckets. I personally make better beer in the buckets and have stopped using the fast ferment. With my setup, it was more work on brew day to get the beer into the fast ferment and it is much easier for me to control temps with my buckets...

Some interviews I have heard with Chris White he says that stir plate starters are under-oxygenated unless you are adding it. It's better than a still starter, but not significantly. The main benefit is keeping the yeast in suspension. No idea how accurate that is, but it comes from yeast...

Shouldn't affect the flavor. I would let it warm until all the ice melted before racking to the keg personally, but it shouldn't matter much. Maybe some effect on clarity as flars mentioned. I accidentally did this not too long ago too when I set my temp controller incorrectly on a cold...

I have done both the super long boil and the first runnings boil to change color and flavor. Both were pretty easy. On the full volume long boil, you can watch the color change and stop when it is about where you want it. You won't notice if you are standing over it, but look once an hour...

I just set this contraption up to allow me to do a pressure fermentation of full 5 gallons in a 5 gallon corny. Far right QD goes on the fermenter. A second keg will be connected to catch krausen with the two "down" lines. Once fermentation settles down a little, I should be able to purge a...

so here is what I ended up setting up and think it should be pretty much foolproof. The first line on the right will be hooked up to the gas line on the fermenter. Blowoff will go into the liquid line of my catcher keg and co2 out the gas line to the spunding. When fermentation settles down...

I think what day trippr was getting at, and I agree, was that the temp controller probe for the keezer goes on the keg that is your heat exchanger. If you have it on a serving keg or in the air, it will take a lot longer to start cooling your heat exchanger. Your second controller to control...

Never had kilju, but I've done a few sugar washes for distilling and I wouldn't drink that stuff undistilled! I'm not sure how oxidation will apply to your kilju, but it is generally something to avoid in fermented beverages and your cheesecloth/coffee filter method will be doing a lot of...

I think it would work well as long as you started ahead of the game on the temps. Start with fermenter at target temp, swamp cooler at/below target temp, and your keg water already cold. I think the system would have a hard time playing catch up. How would your heat transfer work? a coil...

Several combined factors probably. I'm guessing you filled your fermenter to exactly 5 gallons but got a lot of trub in from your boil kettle. When fermentation peaked a lot of trub stuck to the walls and you "lost" volume. If that is the case, you never really had that volume anyway. To nail...

One more suggestion - I have 1 SS cap with a diptube and two of the blue plastic carbacaps. I actually like the plastic ones a little better, seem to be less finicky with the QDs, but if you used the one with the diptube and added a diffuser stone, you could probably hit target CO2 pretty...

I use carbacaps with PET bottles to carb my 1 gallon batches. They work pretty well. I usually bottle in a 2L or 1L soda bottle, squeeze all the air out to prevent oxidation, cap with a carbacap, then set it in the fridge to chill. When it is cold, I pull it out and hook it up to CO2 ~30psi...

cornykeg.com clearance section has been my favorite source. It gets updated as they get stock of the "ugly" or "scratch & dent" kegs and might change throughout the day, so if it says out of stock now, just check back later and there might be a few. They are beat up, but guaranteed to hold...

I didn't have any of the right size hose around, but I could have. I would have assumed that I wanted more gravity on my side though, so the preference was to have the 2L as low as possible and get the spunding high and far away. No matter though. UPS didn't show up, so I'm not brewing this...

Thanks harrke. The design in the pics is: T straight off the gas QD, oriented vertically. Down side of T runs to 2L set on the ground (~1ft of hose) up side of T runs to 20ft coiled airhose with spunding valve at the far end. The spunding will be mounted about 3 ft above the top of the keg...