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I wouldn't think the brewery is going to profit very much on a one-off sold only in their taproom. The opportunity to brew on their equipment completely at their expense is more valuable than any royalties you could possibly expect to make.

I brewed a beer with pine needles a few years ago after reading about beer being brewed in the scottish highlands prior to widespread use of hops. They would use pine and spruce sprigs for flavor and preservation and seafarers would drink it to prevent scurvy and ill health. Today theres a...

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I bought two whirlpool arms from him as well as two pickup tubes all in a single order. I don't remember what shipping was for all of it, but I don't remember it being unreasonable. You could use pickup tubes as whirlpool arms I suppose, but you're not going to save that much money in the end...

I use the same whirlpool arms mentioned earlier from cobrewingsystems. Tim is very helpful and is very good about promptly responding to emails. proboilers have longer ferrules than cobrewing kettles so he's been lengthening them for us. I have a plastic aeration spray tip for mash...

Not that it would take substantially longer to heat wort in a keggle than in a kettle with an incapsulated base, but that the keggle would likely cause more carmelization. I like the flavor, and it's desirable in some styles, so maybe you're not worried about it. I have a 50' ss immersion...

make a single hop APA with it and get a real idea of what citra is contributing to your beers

I don't have keggles either, but it seems like after fitting one with valves and w/e else you wanted, you might as well have bought a kettle with an incapsulated base that's designed for hardware installations and save the keg for fermenter/bright tank, or just serve out of it.

I would use a pinch of debittered black malt or increase the chocolate malt. I like to use pale chocolate malt in brown ale.

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Look man, you posted a thread prompting a discussion about the differences between batch sparging and fly sparging and made it clear you prefer the former, but for every person that has challenged your arguments you've responded with insolence. I've read enough of this thread to know you came...

A "well performed" fly sparge will be substantially more efficient. Commercial breweries I've spoken to are achieving 92 to 95% efficiency and they're not batch sparging. FWHopping has been in use for centuries. It's been tested by time and in modern labs where it has been shown that the time...

"some mechanism to control the flow rate" - you mean a ball valve? "Given a 10% gain in efficiency you're talking about 1lb of extra grain (for a ~1.056 beer)" - that's if you're brewing 5g at a time. A lot of people who prefer to fly sparge are brewing at least twice that. "But anyway, is...

I fly sparge. I have the advantage of first wort hopping, excellent efficiency, clearer run-off, and a period of time with free hands to do other things. I also brew 15g batches and batch sparging wouldn't save me much time or effort by comparison, and I'd sacrifice all the above advantages.

I love first wort hopping and the efficiency increase is enough to mean the difference between getting two batches out of one bag of base malt vs. picking up a new sack every brewday. Good enough reasons for me to fly sparge instead of batch.

I just fabricated some burner mounts out of the cheap galvanized straps you can buy at HD. I can post a picture or you can check out OP's pics. He did the same thing. A lot cheaper than buying more fasteners then you're already going to need to get the rest of the stand built.

Thanks MrFood! Yeah I asked my family about it and found out it belonged to my great grandparents and it was my great grandfather who altered it; they eventually got a new refrigerator and he turned that one into storage for items best kept airtight and removed the monitor top to make more space...

Don't really want to alter it too terribly much aside from cleaning it up and adding the tap tower. If I figure out a way to make it a self-contained cooling unit that makes sense I'll do it, but I'll be keeping this in my barn where I brew and throw parties so it doesn't need to keep beer cold...

It doesn't cool, but it does insulate. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Hi all. I recently found a very old General Electric refrigerator in some old family storage and immediately thought it'd be a perfect keezer project. I've tried to learn a little bit about old GEs before tampering with it, but information is pretty limited and it seems like I'd have better luck...