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I will be brewing 15.5 gallons of a low gravity beer. The 31 lb grain bill includes 22 lbs Vienna and 10 Pilsner. Of the 26 gallons of water to be used I will use 10 gallons of RO during mash in and 10 of RO at spare, adding 6 gallons of my well water to that sparge. I have...

Hello and welcome from Prairie Farm, WI

wobdee - You a member of the Menomonie Homebrewers? Did you ever try this dry hopping procedure?

Renewal purposes.

Ahhhh.....Honeymoon, brewing? Get outta here. You have a lifetime to worry about brewing. Go celebrate. BTW Congratulations.

We all like to have the clearest beer. But as you close your eye and drink that first taste of your creation it no longer matters. There are other issues to master before clarity IMHO.

I approach what I brew much like I approach the building of my brewery. Started with kits, then 5 gallon all grain. Then 10 gallons brews and finally my 15 gallon dedicated brewery. I will grow no more. Small steps. Planning. It is a hobby. I have treated it as such. I began brewing...

I brew 15.5 gallon batches all the time in my 15 gallon conical. I just added a blow off tube as I have had some issues with blow off. As an aside: I will be adding a rotating racking arm after my next brew identifies my trub line. I keg, so I can get three kegs filled from one...

I brewed 10 gallon batches very happily in a temperature controlled refrigerator. I used two 5 gallon carboys that sat on a plywood platform about 18"s above the frig floor. Two sets of blow off tubes ran down through the platform into two one gallon plastic milk jugs. Sweet tasting beer.

In building my brewery and developing my processes I ended up identifying five house beers. They are the styles I enjoy most. I then began to build my storage inventory around the ingredients used in the five styles. Using the principles moreb33 identified in the second post above my...

When brewing smaller batches I sometimes used an oxygen tank with a diffusion stone to add oxygen to my wort prior to pitching yeast. I now brew 15 gallon batches using a conical for fermenting. Anybody out there oxygenate wort in conicals? Is it worth the effort?

Yes, Savorychef that puts the words to great meaning. I appreciate your service. Thanks.

TY a pic of the whole unit would be nice. That will finish off this line of questioning. That last part the: http://www.brewershardware.com/1.5-Tri-Clover-X-1-2-Female-BSPP.html is not needed if I am just adding a ball valve with a female end, correct? The parts you listed above will...

Is that a rotating arm? Would you please list the order of needed parts? And, the source of the SS arm? Much appreciated

What is used on the inside? The end of the nipple is left as it is I assume.

What Fred said. But to add: Yes, you can put a SS weldless valve on it. But the cranking the hell out of it may not be the issue. Gaskets only need to be snugged enough to create the seal. Is the problem that where the hole is drilled the circumference of the conical does not allow a...

Google is your friend. Go through the process you used post boil and figure out what happened. Could it have been something other than the orange peel? Rewash everything using a good cleaner. Soak the fermenter parts, cover, cover ring, screws that hold the ring, sight glass and racking...

When I first got my tank, people here were encouraging us to place the plastic fermenter in the sun. It did rid all plastic smell from the unit. I would recommend you do this as well after the clorine process.

What processes did you use to clean and sanitize the system?

I brew 15 gallons of beer using this fermentor. It probaby holds 17-18 gallons.