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I just kegged 5 gallons of a lager and had initially planned on filling some bottles (about 24) from the keg for some contests and sharing. I planned on doing it right away, but life took over and it has been about a week. I kind of screwed myself. I filled the keg with the full batch, bled...

In the plumbing section of your local big box home improvement store (Menards, Lowes, Home Depot) they will sell 1 oz tubes of "Plumbers Grease" for faucets. It works great. I think I paid $2.79 for tube. A 3 oz tube of "Keg Lube" will cost $7-8 at your LHBS. You may find both silicone or...

A local brewery is hosting a wort transformation challenge. The challenge is to make a base wort into something different and special. There are about 160 entries. I am getting the maximum of 2 - 5 gallon portions of the base wort, a blonde (2 entries). It is 95% pilsner, 5% carapils with...

As mentioned previously the easiest way to find the leak is to open up the valve and submerge everything, the tank, the regulator, the hoses and connectors. I just put together a converted paintball tank on a Kegco gauge and lost everything overnight recently. Submerging everything pointed me...

In addition to the fan (I leave mine on all the time to circulate the cool) add a desiccant, like DampRid or a moisture eliminator from the dollar store. Or, you can make one yourself: Check out my video:

I agree with pretty much everything said. Cheap to run, accurate temps, convenient, no worries about running out of propane, brewing inside any time of year (although I ran an outlet to my garage so I can brew outside if I want to). You can start with a one vessel BIAB or a 3 vessel fulll...

One thing to be aware of. If you use a switch to flip between 120v and 240v you need to make sure it is rated for the amperage you have going across it. It is best to have the switch flip a relay to do the swap.

Thanks Yooper. You are always very helpful. I have always added pretty much the same chemicals to my local multiply filtered water. I was wondering what, if any changes I might need to make. Tim

Thanks for the helpful answers Martin. I have read the documentation on your website and have read a lot in the Water book. The problem is that I have never been very chemistry minded, chemistry class was 40 years ago and my brain is getting pretty full. There is just so much to absorb...

I just purchased and installed a new RO system. I am now windering which additions are best for the different purposes. Beersmith and Bru'n Water list: Gypsum, Calcium Chloride, Epsom Salt, Magnesium Chloride, Canning Salt, Baking Soda, Chalk, Pickling Lime and Lactic Acid. Are these the...

There may be something to this. As you said the Blichmann system and their instructions (which you can download from their site) say to add a pound or two of pressure above carbing pressure. This may account for the losses pushing through the stone and line losses. I was carbonating a 3...

This has been a good thread. I used bottled RO water / minerals on my last brew I just installed an RO system of my own going forward. I appreciate everyone's experience. One comment. You said you added extra Lactic Acid at 20 minutes. I went to a water seminar given my John Palmer a couple...

I think I am going to do this. I just ordered a couple 3 gallon kegs and want to wait to keg some of the 8 gallons in a smaller keg and bottle the rest to let it age a while. I didn't really want to keg 5 gallons and bottle 3, I would rather go the other direction (keg 3 gallons and bottle 5)...

It sounds like you have decided, but I will throw another vote for electric indoors anyway. I think you will be much happier. I have never used induction so can't speak to that personally. A lot of people do use it and swear by it. I bet you can find a lot of posts on here about it and if...

It attenuated to 1.008. I crashed it and now I am tasting butter. I think I might try warming it back up to 75-78, adding some candy sugar, maybe in a secondary and seeing if I can get rid of most of the diacetyl. Otherwise, maybe it will age out. The 1214 yeast said it is good at 68-78...

I have always filled a spare keg up with oxyclean and pressurized it with my littler pancake compressor to push the cleaner through tap lines etc. I have never had a problem. I figure anything in the compressor is going to be killed by the soap. I also use air from it to push the final wort...

I left it at 68 for over two weeks. It was still bubbling occasionally after 10 days. I just crashed it yesterday and may bottle/keg it tonight or tomorrow. The last gravity check was 1.008 two or three days ago. It tastes pretty good, but you can tell it's an almost 10% beer. I think it...

I just put 7 gallons of Belgian Golden Strong into two fermenting buckets in my ferm chamber. My SG was 1.074 (projected was supposed to be 1.076). I had a bunch of Wyeast 1214 harvested from about a year ago. At the time, I bought 2 smack packs of it when it was a month past the use by date...

I appreciate the feedback. You are probably right, but none of my questions or their answers would have changed my decision to purchase this unit. I will make it work regardless. Since I had already done a bunch of research up front, I was mainly interested in the questions about operation...

Thanks for the input. I suspected most of what you said, I just wanted some confirmation. Good info on the holding tank. I will need to keep that in mind when I am needing 15 gallons for a brew day. At a flow rate of 50 gallons a day it is going to take 8 hours to get the water volume I will...