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I have found it is much easier to replace that silicone gasket when wet. So now I starsan the lid and gasket and then put it back on right before use.

Interesting. I had been looking for some information about this as sometimes it works better than others for me. It does say you can heat to higher temps but only for a short period. Sometimes I heat and pitch immediately and sometimes it sits for a bit. Wonder if this is the difference.

I have a bunch of those anvil buckets. They are very iffy for holding any pressure. It depends how well the silicone ring is on and how tight your hooks are.

How many Tbsp PBW per gallon do you use?

I can see that being more work than it’s worth. Maybe for times like this when I have many to do but otherwise set up and clean up is probably harder than cleaning the keg.

Yea I’ve done that, but my experience is PBW needs a little time to do it’s magic. Maybe I just need to build a keg shaker! Ooo, on to something here. Like those paint shakers at the paint store.

As the title says. Don’t want to but has to be done. (: what’s the easiest way. All need a full pbw clean but not looking to make up 35 gallons Of the stuff. I have tried transferring in the past but pbw gets too cool too fast. Find me a better way!

I honestly wouldn’t brew without StarSan. I can’t imagine having to sanitize without it. I use a spray bottle and the stuff seems to go everywhere, so I am actually scared of the iodine based cleaners. I do tend to up the concentration on spray bottles. The thought being I am often spraying...

I have a 4 and a 1 yo now. I kept brewing since the first one was born. I definitely agree with the multi day brews. Get the water collected and adjusted, the grains crushed, and everything pulled out and set up a day or days ahead of time. Then split the mash, boil, transfer, pitch, and...

I wonder if it’s the same process that happens with my kegs. I burst carbonate, then the first few days the beer pours like a cider and I am working to get any head. After that it is great for a week. Then beyond that I am fighting the foam. I always assumed it was just getting more...

Well if you kegged, purge the headspace every couple of days. It should reduce over time. If you bottled, I have no idea.

Good points. I have my basket on a winch so I can lift it high enough to access the wort if needed. Last few times I have gone into the boil while still draining, but I may look for a container big enough to drain into so I don’t have to have it hanging there dripping. My issue is the basket...

Some of the all-in-one systems like mine can’t handle the volume of a full volume mash, so you would need to add water for the boil anyway. Might as well pull the grain basket and pour the water over the grains for a sparge. I do this while the wort below is heating to boil. I’m one to cut...

It will affect the hop utilization noticeably, but you can adjust for it somewhat. If you can cool it a bit with ice or something the effect will be less.

I installed a 14” frost free hose sillcock so I can leave it on year round. I ended up installing a hot and cold sillcock which is very nice for cleaning outside on cold days too. I store a couple of those collapsing hoses in the garage or basement to keep them thawed. But the last couple...

What’s a “little”? Like to give this a try.

Ha, I was looking at your final calculations, and was convinced this had to be an iterative calculation, and not a power to (^) calculation. I was dead wrong. (: the software developer in me made me. I wrote a small program to calculate the decreasing O2 volume and the final O2...

Can you pour boiling water into those fermenters? You have to be very careful of course pouring boiling water. I went through a bad infection a couple of years ago. What I couldn’t boil, I threw out. I got creative using my kettle for boiling some bigger things.

I recently switched from a 15 gallon kettle, a brew bag, and a 220v induction to a Grainfather G40. Simple is definitely better for cleaning, but my induction cooktop died so I looked at other options. With 2 little kids running around I wanted something that would easily hold strike and...

And label the buckets not the lids! I used to label the lids then one day had several open and got the lids all mixed up. Pretty sure I figured it out by taste and smell but still.