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hey dcarter....is that something you've done, personally? Anyway you could supply pics? I'm very curious. :mug:

Hey Chug, was it this kind of brew kettle? http://www.homebrewing.org/2-Weld-15-gallon-SS-Brew-Pot_p_2756.html I got one of the 19 gallon versions from a local supplier and there were a fair amount of scratches on it, mostly on the outside. Nothing major though, and considering the low cost of...

Hey all, I'm getting some camlocks soon and I'm having a tough time deciding what to use for my female couplers. I'm deciding between type C (with the built in hose barb) type D with a 5/8" hose barb screwed on, or type B and force the silicone tubing over the 1/2" male threading. All three...

I'd say you want 8 gallons, minimum, 9 or 10 preferably.

OK, so just have a ball valve on the outlet of the pump and have it barely open? Like 1/4 max? That was another question I had was ensuring that the runnings can keep up, but I imagine that's only a concern when batch sparging and the runnings are about to run dry. When fly sparging you pretty...

Hey guys, I searched but found nothing, so my apologies if this has come up before, I'm sure it has. I am getting a Chugger pump soon (maybe a Great Brew Eh pump though) and I am wondering it it will be compatible with my mash tun which has a SS braid? It's a 10 gallon Rubbermaid/Home...

Thanks guys. I think I'll work on one this weekend. Now I just need to get a new pipe cutter. I ruined my last one cutting my stainless steel dip tube!

Hey everybody, I wanna make a copper manifild for my mash tun and I was wondering if you can get away with doing it without soldering it. ie: can the pieces just be fit together? I can solder, I've done it before, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it, lol. My main concern is that flux paste...

I do ten gallon batches most of the time, I was thinking a 15 gallon tank, if they're available.

We have an RO system, but the tank is VERY small....two gallons maybe? After collecting a gallon or so it starts to trickle. SO I either upgrade to a larger RO tank or more likely I'll just buy bottled water in the big 5 gallon jugs. They have their water profile printed on the side and it's...

Magnesium and Sodium aren't THAT bad...on the higher ends, yeah, but yes, the bicarbionate level had me worried the most. Was pretty sure I was gonna hafta buy water, but was hoping. F**k this God forsaken place I live in.

Hey guys, Got my water report from Ward Labs today. I'm on a well and I bypassed our water softener, letting the water run from the tap for about 7-8 minutes before collecting my sample. Here's the results: pH: 7.9 Sodium, Na: 121 ppm Calcium, Ca: 55 Magnesium, Mg: 45 Sulfate, SO4...

Looks good! Wanna build on for me? :)

Thanks guys! No springs then.

Hey guys, I'm replacing my chrome taps with Perlicks and when I took my tap apart this spring came out of the shank. Does that go back in with the Perlicks or no? I'm thinking no.... Thanks! Nick

Thanks for the advice guys. Just to be sure, I grabbed a bunch of those decomposable fibre pots, about 14" in diameter, and buried those in the soil and planted my new hop rhizomes in them. That way, I figure, over the next few years any hops I see growing outside of the pots are hops I don't...

Hey guys, I'm in the process of rearranging my hops garden, and in the process I dug up and gave away a lot of my hop vines. All my bittering varieties were given away and I kept my flavour/aroma varities. I will be planting rhizomes for the varieties I am keeping in the areas where the...

Hey guys, Racked some finished beer to a keg last night at my friend's house and we forgot to put the bottom cap on the auto-siphon, so I picked up more yeast than usual. My intent was to fill just 6 bottles for a local competition from the keg when I got home, but I decided to cold...

OK, cool, that's what I figured. Thanks!

I pitched about 3 hours ago and I have signs of fermentation already...bubbles coming out of the blow-off tube and a thin beige cake starting to form...but...what is this stuff?!?! The stuff I'm referring to is the "cloudy" looking stuff floating just under the surface. Uploaded with...