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I use Starsan and I use RO/tap water (I brew in kitchen). I did take a sample last night and had my wife also see what she thought. her comment was it tasted lemony so it's possible there is some hop characterist I'm not used to or it's smoothing out some. Still has a bitter aftertaste but...

Maybe not, I'll check it when I get home..but I guess you're right because I think it does thin out there by the drain. Thank you very much BTW!

I don't know if that will be big enough or what else I may need to buy to make it work. I think the walls are 2" think?

my first AG batch and only one so far tastes like rubber. I have another post going about that. I also don't like the whole idea off possibly leaching some pastic from the vinyl (PVC). Here is my post about the rubbery AG batch which this may or maynot be the cause...

Hey everyone, I have a 36qt (I think) coleman xtreme that I currently have vinyl tuning and braid SS setup until I can locate a SS ball valve/bulkhead. the cooler is like this one...

Home Depot stuff (supposedly food grade/rated to 175 or so I think?) I don't think it got above 168 though.

Oh, the cooler is Coleman Xtreme 42Qt? and I use braided SS going to vinyl hose. I probably ran 15 gallons of hot tap water through it (130F). I will say though I used the cheap mans verision using vinyl through the hole and attached braid on the vinyl with two small zip ties (couldn't find...

thanks for the quick responses, it was a fairly new package of safale 05 I stored in the fridge and same shipment from LBS. I've made other batches from. the cooler and lines were brand new, I ran several runs of hot water through the cooler and lines to clean it out before I used it. I also...

First of all, Hello everyone and what a great site/resource. I have learned alot trolling around here for a few months. I have done about 5 batches so far of extract/Partial extract recipes and have had pretty good luck (mostly midwest kits). I'm a serial hobbiest and usually jump into stuff so...