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Thanks for the replys so far! Looks like I'll try giving this key a nice soak and scrubbing to try and get that smell and residue off, and replace all orings as well. Anyone know if that little pressure release valve/tab on the keg lid is supposed to come apart or has an seals in it? My lid also...

Thanks for the replys so far. I think the keg has had all new seals installed already and seemed to be holding pressure good when I filled it with 30psi. I do have a new package of seals for it though that came with the kit. How tight should I tighten the posts? I don't want to over tighten and...

I'm not sure what was used in it before, but it does have a root beer or cream soda smell to it that won't seem to go away. I haven't filled it with beer yet, but the keg looks pretty clean, other than the residue at the top. How come you shouldn't use a keg that had rootbeer in it? Oh yeah...

So I just got a keg kit for christmas and transformed my Sanyo. I was inspecting the keg my kit came with after giving it a good rinse and sanitizer soak with iodophor/water. Around the top of the inside it seems to have some white residue. It looks kinda like a fish tank where your water had...

Mine never made a lot of krausen, but it fermented pretty aggressive. I had maybe half an inch to an inch layer of krausen on the top, but when I looked at the wort I could see all kinds of activity going on trough the glass. It looked like I had my carboy on a stir plate because there was so...

I tried to strain my batch with a funnel and one of those nylon bucket strainers. It was a huge mess! I got a lot of pumpkin out, but it took forever because i had to constantly dump the pumpkin out of the strainer and move it around to unclog it. Even then there was still a good amount of...

glad to hear that! mine is about 4 days in the clearing stage and the film hasn't seemed to have got any worse/thicker, or more noticable. it is still faint and transparent, but it is still there though. not too sure what it is, but the best i can do is just keep an eye on it to see if it...

Made the extract version of this about a week ago. Just racked to clear the other day so i tasted a sample and it was amazing! However, i was looking at the brew tonight and i noticed a faint, kinda white in color, oily film developing on the top. It wasnt across the whole top. Just kinda...

Cool thanks Yuri! I just ordered all the ingredients to pick up on from my LHBS Thursday, and am finally going to brew it on Monday. I'm hoping to have it bottled and ready to drink just in time for thanksgiving. I have been looking at the recipe for some time now and it seems like this is an...

not sure if i missed this, but in the extract version when are you adding the DME? At the beginning of the boil, at the end, or some in the beginning/some in the middle, etc.? I figured at the beginning of the boil, but just want to make sure..

Cool thanks guys! Glad to hear the good news. Do you think that's a good price on that setup? It would be like 130-140 dollars for something similar from my LHBS.

So I'm starting on my sanyo kegerator build. I was planning to buy most of the parts from my LHBS. He sells a whole fridge conversion kit to make things easy, but i figured I could save some money if i found a few of the parts cheaper. He has his single double gauge regulators with shut off...

I have been seeing a lot of people using grain bags to put the pumpkin in so it doesn't get as messy when when going into the carboy. Are you all adding the pumpkin to your mash and putting it in a grain bag? Or are you boiling it in your grain bag? I'm going to do the extract version soon so I...

Not really sure about this or how well it would work. I am sure you could fit a decent size bulb in there, but you might be better off with one of those carboy heaters. Or possibly not even use the fridge at all, and just use a heat source instead if the outside ambiant temp is lower than what...

i am using a love temp controller with mine. mainly because i want the option to set my temp and forget about it. i am always busy so having to make constant adjustments to keep it at a steady temp wont work with me. right now i have a porter sitting in my avanti fridge fermenting at a steady...

yeah sorry, i can see how the way i said that could confuse people. you are going to have to cut your shelves regardless. A 5 gallon will fit with more room left over than a 6.5 gallon, but they both will fit. However, you might not have to cut the shelves as crazy as i did if you were only...

To give an update.... I finally got my Avanti the other week!! After like a month of waiting on back order!! :mad: homeeverything sucked with shipping, but I guess it was worth the wait because $135 shipped isn’t a bad deal. Anyways, after testing it out, it seems to be a pretty good...

i honestly havent had a chance to brew this recipe yet. it's been too hot the past month here in florida to let my brews ferment in my closet (house is about 76-77 during the day). i don't want to deal with swamping my carboy so i decided to invest in a mini fridge to ferment in. it was on back...

Haven't got mine yet. Homeeverything is horrible with shipping this. I'm gonna give them a little longer before I cancel and order with someone else. it's mid 80's down here in florida right now, and my house is usually about 76-78 degrees inside so i can't brew right now because it is too hot...

the websites have the interior height listed at 27 inches. i dont have mine yet to confirm it is right on that mark, but based on that info, and the info provided on www.ebrew.com about carboy height. they say a 6.5 gallon glass carboy is 21 inches tall, and with an airlock it is 27.25 inches...