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Do you use a hop bag? Muslim or the nylon paint strainer from lowes to put your hops in during boiling. I have a dip tube with no strainer or filter material. Instead the filtering is done on the CFC exit with a nylon strainer. Helps to aerate and catches any proteins trub that didn't...

Should be just fin. I use a bucket that doesn't have a gasket. And when tipped on side some liquod does slowly drain out. Shouldn't be a problem. Havn't had a problem so far. TO be extra stringent. I usually don't aerate (shake) as vigoursly. Trying to avoid putting wort between the...

I found a 10g-15g? keg at Liquor Depot for $20. The valve was damage and couldn't be returned to the distributed. Has the year 1986 stamped onit, along with the pressure and made in belgium. I cut it open to find somekind of coating on the inside. I plan to use it as a boil kettle. Is the...

The rate of cooling does depend on length (surface area). but it's also a function of the mass flow rate (lb/s) of both the wort and the cooling water. Mass flow rate = density x avg. velocity x cross-sectional area of tube/annulus

You wern't rambling at all, I fully understand your explanation. Thanks alot for the description....need pressure and time so that the co2 goes into solution and the foaming I experienced was due to co2 in the headspace. And yes it makes sense that cooler fluid can hole more co2. Kinda like...

I have a question about carbonation and found this post while seaching so thought my question, if answered may also be helpful So I also brewed a befeweizen, thanks to EdWort. Bottled it in 10 days. OG 1.042 FG 1.010. Boiled 5oz of dextrose and water and added to bottling bucket. Its been...

The beginner setup Beer Kit: $80 10g Rubbermaid MLT: $60 CFC: Free, made 2 sold 1 Ingredients: $75 @ 3 batches Turkey Fryer: $30 Misc: $55 Total: $300

Im really new to this but the first thing that comes to mind is not a fermentor. Possibly a kettle, or cut in half for two kettles, or storage tank for kegging. If you were to cut out the section I think it would be really hard to make a good seal, even with a gasket. Possibly could work...

Yes that will work. I used a 7/8" water heater braid. Just need to build up vinyl tubing inorder to make a snug fit on the brass fitting. So I pulled out the inner vinyl tube of the water heater braid and cut lengths that were about 1-1.5". Put one on either end with a smaller diamter tube...

I built two and sold one on homebrewtalk. I have no problems reaching 70F temps in my 25' from Bobby_M's DIY. My exit temps are low as 58F. >25' seems overkill and probably won't provide much more cooling potential for the dollar. Unless your tap water is ungodly warm, then building a...

ooo thanks EdWort. Didn't know that wheat is a little smaller than barley. That makes alot of sense. There is actually a station set-up at the HBS. So ill probably mill the pils seperate from the wheat, and mill the wheat twice. I was thinking that she may not know that the mill even...

My ball valve spins too. No leaks and added silicon to seal the foam core so there's nothing to worry about.

Thanks for the recipe Edwort!!! Mine has been in the fermentor for about 16 hours and it is going crazzzzy. So much foam and co2 that I had to switch to a blowoff. The yeast starter you recommended must have made a huge difference. Do have a question though. My OG was ~1.042 with the...

great info

Installed and used mine this weekend. Worked great, no leaks, no nothing. Definately recommend as the price is low and relatively easy to install for those who don't have the time or resources to weld one up.

Thanks for the reply. So you always shoot for the AA% no matter how much additional weight is added. Well brewed this weekend and did a taste test last night. So far its pretty freaking awesome. Ended up adding same AA% as for the 10 gallon recipe for my 5 gallon batch. OG was 1.052...

the bucket mount is mighty tempting...

The 7/8" water heater braid works great. Plenty of flow and no floating as some experience with the smaller diameter braids. At the end of the line used the brass cap with a piece of the original vinyl tubing for a snug fit. The difficult portion, other than finding the washers, was...

Finished my first homebrew yesterday. Man was this thing awesome! The wort chilled to 59F at about half faucet pressure (extremely high water pressure here) and full throttle open kettle valve. So actually bumped up the water temp to get 70F wort. The chill lasted about 10-15 minutes and...

Just finished making my CFC. Instructions were perfect. Ending up making a simple jig to to straighten out the copper and feed the line into the rubber hose. AS suggested by IrregularPulse Do have a question though. Il be using gravity feed. I was wondering how you suggest to clean...