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Looks like they are pretty similar. I give patients simethicone routinely in its pill form for bloating. Maybe I'll carry my Fermcap around for them when I don't have an order for it yet.

We'll see in about 75 minutes. I'm going to add 1.5 tsp close to 200 degrees of the avocado oil into a 9.5 gallon boil in a 10 gallon kettle. This leaves me with about 1.75" of wiggle room.

Tomorrow I will be doing an 8.5 gallon (final volume) batch in a 10 gal Spike Brewing kettle. At the start I should have about 1" of clearance to the top of the kettle. I'm going to start with avocado oil and go with 1.5-2 tsp, if it fails I'll have fermcap on hand. The part that worries me...

I think New Castle is a mixed beer. If I remember correctly in my infancy of brewing I was looking for a clone of it.

I've used a G Frances bench capper for about 60 bottles. In the small sample size its been great. I went with it for its lack of plastic. I'll get back to you in 5 years and let you know how it held up.

looks like i got the wrong info somewhere. My defoamer so far has been a bigger kettle. Might give veg oil a shot if i try a 8 gal batch in my 10 but I'd still be at about 9.5 gal at the start

How much simetacone can be in Fermcap? People eat it like candy if they have some GI probs.

Line changes look life they'd be "fun" not a lot of room to work the line onto a barbed fitting with a clamp in there.

It's an interesting idea for sure. The issues I'd think you would face would be balancing the lines, keeping them cool and running them in a way that makes changing them an option without having to dismantle a bunch of things. If you come up with any thing please share.

It looks like either one would work. I'd drill out the ball then set the hardware in with some epoxy to help hold everything together. In theory the epoxy would anchor the hardware and stop the ball from loosing up over time.

You can also look into using priming sugar in the keg which is something I've done the past few beers. More for the reason I've been able to brew faster than I can drink. So I'll get the carbonation process while I'm finishing off a keg.

I normally set them to 7-10 psi and just let them sit in the fridge. It takes about 2 weeks before they are fully carbed and ready to drink. I haven't tasted anything I'd consider green after its been on the gas for a week or 2. I normally keep my beers in the primary for 3-4 weeks with no cold...

Next batch you do try to keep the wort at the mid 60s during fermentation. The temperature inside the carboy can be 5 degrees or more warmer than your ambient temp. When the yeast work in to warm of an environment they produce an alcohol that most describe as being hot tasting. As far as...

If all the bottles are infected I'd start by looking at the equipment that touches everything like your fermentation bucket/carboy. If its plastic and has any scratches it can be near impossible to sanitize. If you use a bottling bucket with a spigot thats another higher risk area. See if you...

Northern brewer has refunded the cost of the beer tubing. While the product was sub par their customer service was great. In the 2nd email I sent them to let them know a 24 hour PBW soak and running BLC through didn't work to get rid of the plastic taste. They offered me a cash refund or a NB...

My go to is: 8lbs Maris Otter 2 lbs Aromatic Malt 12 oz Special B 12 oz Cara 60L 12 oz Flaked Oats 4 oz Chocolate Malt 0.5 oz Columbus and Willamette at 60 minutes 1.5 oz Willamette at flame out Wyeast 1056 I Mash it at 154F Lots of malt flavor with some back side sweetness Since were...

See if you can get your hands on a Zombie Dust to try and see. Its 100% citra made by 3 Floyds. The home brew recipe varies for it but it normally uses 2-3 ounces dry hopping and another 4 to 6 in the boil per 5 gallon batch. The one I use has 6 total ounces in it and I never picked up cat piss...

I just hope it turns out better for you then the AB released Tequiza from the 90s or early 2000s. It is different then anything I'd attempt but it sounds like your on to something with it.

Bev line and they are the basic PVC from Northern Brewer.

Just replaced my stock PVC lines with new ones and eww. Just do right bad, awful everything. My old lines were about 4' and the 1st pour was 80% foam unless I had my regulator set to 4-6 psi. With 3 taps this didn't really work with having 1 regulator and a 3-way manifold. So I bout 30' of PVC...