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Here's my fridge based system. Precise enough? :)

I also pump about 15-20 feet to my fermenter and totally don't understand the aversion to doing it. Cleaning and sanitizing a short hose is the exact same amount of work as cleaning and sanitizing a long hose. Do what you want, but it seems kind of odd. I think you'll change your mind eventually.

I shorted all of my gas dip tubes so they don't hang down at all. I push out the starsan and leave some pressure in the keg. I then invert the keg so the gas post is the lowest point and press the poppet in. The last little bit of starsan left in the keg squirts out. This works awesome at...

If the pressure relief valve hangs down a half inch inside the keg like they do in corneys, filling it until sanitizer comes out the prv will leave a huge air pocket under the lid. For the same reason, turning the keg upside down and pulling the prv is going to leave a large amount of sanitizer...

I made a dipstick for my 15 gallon conical. It's a piece of 1/8" diameter welding rod with a dimple pressed into it at every gallon. It's bent at the top so it hangs from the rim of the fermenter and works awesome. It's easy to make and very easy to use.

You're at the point where you should think about a conical fermenter. The ability to drop yeast and hops is a huge plus depending on what you would like to be able to do.

I used to use two fermenters per 10 gallon batch, and switching to one big fermenter was one of the best things I have done. No more trying to evenly split my yeast starter between vessels and no more wondering if one carboy was fermenting slightly differently than the other.

The way around that is to cut your gas dip tube so it doesn't hang down into the keg and use it as the air exit point. You need to hold the keg at an angle so it's the highest point while adding starsan to the other post until all air is purged. I usually do this step multiple times with some...

Pretty cool, @Schlenkerla. That idea never crossed my mind. I'm going to file this away for when I need something like that.

How is that motor working out for you? Do you have a link, specs, or part number for it?

Coils are not more precise than fridge or freezer based chamber. Sorry, but that is just nonsense. Use brewpi with a fridge or freezer and you will hold temps within 0.1 degree F. That will be much more precise than a glycol system using a simple on/off controller.

Have you ever tried high protein grains in this style? That might be why it looks off to me. I like these beers with a little more stuff in suspension, and it's thought that a lot of the hop flavor and aroma bind to the proteins. I have tested this millions of times by restoring a beer's...

Right on brother. I'm so glad those times are behind us.

LOL. I can smell the "malt backbone" and feel the IBUs destroy my tongue... what weird times.

These things are actually on sale right now for $25. https://www.morebeer.com/products/fermonster-carboy-7-gal.html

I also did a water test before racking beer to see how the purging would go and decided that it would be easier to fill it completely with starsan and then push beer through to get the starsan out. I completely filled my filter housing setup with starsan before moving beer and then purged out...

Again, that beer looks so good, @Dgallo. How would you compare that yeast to 1318 or A24 for this style, or is it hard to tell with the lavender in there?

Just wanted to mention that I tried the 20 mesh version of this filter on my last massively dry hopped (over 2 lbs) 10 gallon batch and it worked beautifully in preventing clogged poppets. The whole batch transferred no problem to two kegs. It did clog at the very end of the transfer, but...

Post fermentation

No troll dude. The part of the process you just described is the part that I'm saying you may be able to improve, but you are just not seeing it.