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I sold mag drive pumps to a company that cleaned and refilled gas cannisters. The chemicals they use are so aggressive they would eat up pumps for lunch. By dinner they needed a new pump. Just a great account. But to think somehow that contamination won't get into "my" welding tank CO2 tank...

The radioactivity from the finger will never leave the beer, or the person drinking it. In 15 years you won't even remember drinking the beer, or understand how it could have caused the cancer even if you could. But yeah the beer will be fine. Within "acceptable limits".

At least you cleaned off before taking your morning dip. I can't address your burping issue. That one is on you. Well hopefully not ON you, but you catch my drift.

Everyone thinks they make "perfect" or at least "great" beer. Kind of goes with that territory. The eye of the beholder thing. For me, heaven in a glass was an IPA with garden hops four years ago. The judges agreed and gave me a 48. I probably will never score that high again, "only" 44 two...

Thanks pumpkinman, I'll keep the priming sugar the same. No real questions now, I should get it next week and bottle with it next weekend I hope. Waiting on a couple of saisons to finish, so may have a question after that.

Day 4 update. Temperature down to 74 with ambient 71. Fermentation about one glug every 20 sec. off blowoff tube. Pulled a sample and gravity now 1.015. OG was 1.073. Banana notes, spicy, pineapple notes, a little tart, pleasant bitterness under it all, sneaky strong one this one. Decided...

I may have to sleep in until 6 because that's normal wake up time. But tomorrow, brewing and hopefully bottling. Such great weather here can't wait.

I'd ditch the lactose. Milk stout? Not something I want to do. Otherwise your recipe looks great. Although I would add a little Special B because it's special. 6 oz. Yeast - Wyeast Abbey Ale II 1762. A hint of cherry? Let's not get crazy here.

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It may have even been for that model and they changed it. I remember some unhappy reviews for people that lost freezerfuls of meat and such so went with the GE instead. Had my freezer maybe 2 years so that may fit...

Google Tri-Clover C114MD56T-S A lot bigger and more expensive than you will need. Someone really does need to make a decent sanitary smaller beer pump in stainless with clamp fittings.

Did you find you had to adjust your priming sugar upwards at all with the pump? ps Steve says hi. I bought a pump from him today and he is super helpful, you are right!

True, it's not really pulling the air out of the bottle enough to remove all the oxygen.

They are cheap perhaps because that brand at least used to have issues on failing. Good deal it sounds like with free shipping. I got a couple of the GE 7 cu. ft. ones at $199, now $198 on sale at Home Depot based on some stellar reviews.

That's all it is. The burners are fine. The only other thing was the rusting of the pathway. And earwigs and other bugs. You can wire brush it and it will work great again.

If the carboys are both on the ground, I don't think it matters much as to gravity. You will get a positive effect until both are half full, then you still need to lift from there. Degassing could be a positive effect. I would think having yeast being able to do more fermenting in the bottle...

The hotter the more your NPSH available becomes less available, while the NPSH required stays the same. With boiling water cavitation is almost a given, unless you have sufficient vertical head less suction piping losses to still give you enough NPSH required. Pretty unlikely in a homebrew...

I purchased an AllInOne Vacuum pump today. Asked Steve, but he didn't know. If you use the pump to rack from primary into a bottling carboy, that first carboy gets degassed to some extent. Then when you rack from the bottling carboy into bottles, it will get degassed some more...

The reason you probably don't want to use condensed milk is that it has a lot of milk protein. Often no fat, but maybe fat too. Of course you are adding cocoa powder too, which has fat. So I don't think either extra protein, and certainly fats, are desirable in beer in general. I would stick...

Yes, real sanitary pumps are specifically designed for ease of taking apart for cleaning. Non threaded impellers that can be removed without a tool a pin holds them in place. Tri-Clamp fittings on inlet and outlet, Tri Clamp fitting around the casing.