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Thanks for all the help As I said, I was going through the book again and decided to really focus on the chapter on Mash PH. I knew I had good water, but when I was originally trying to figure out the conversion, I was making a mistake and coming up with really large, off the chart numbers...

I am trying to get a grasp on water chemistry and was re-reading the chapter in How to Brew on Understanding the Mash PH. As suggested I got a copy of my local water report. I am on the Catskill/Delaware aqueduct in NYC. The report can be found here. Looking at alkalinity the report...

I am putting together a keggerator and have contacted ACU about getting a stainless steel draft arm. There is a big price difference (almost twice the price) between brushed stainless and polished stainelss. I usuall prefer brushed stainless, but I am concerned how it will look next to a...

I see a 3 gallon carboy (or two or three or four) in my future too, and like you I am not sure for what. The 2 gallon buckets sound like a good place to start. It will allow me to get started for fairly inexpensively untill I figure out what it is I really need, or untill I find something better.

I don't know how I missed those, I probably skipped over them looking for glass without thinking about it. At $5 a piece they might just be the way to go. For the price of one three gallon glass carboy, I can pick up 4 of them to use as 2 primaries and 2 secondaries.

I have taken a walk through a supermarket as well as a farmers market and haven't been able to find anything else in the gallon or better size, the largest glass container I can find with juice in it is 1/2 gallon. I have also searched online and in various 99 cent and overstock type stores for...

SWMBO asked me to stop and pick her up a bottle of wine when I took the dog for a walk so I was able to check out the Carlo Rossi wine jugs. Not bad at $12 a pop, just wish they where a bit bigger.

At the outset let me just state that I have done more searches than I care to recall looking for this information, but I haven't found everthing I am looking for. I currently brew 10 gallon batches, which are then kegged in cornies. It has been along time since I brewed on my stove, but I...

Oats can create a haze, which may not have been noticeable (if present) in your brown Ale.

Sharpie on masking tape. I have some beers that I age for a long time, and I find that duct tape can become a pain to get off if the "sticky" dries out.

Questions for you, the freezer you picked up, are you able to keep (or would you be able to keep) two carboys with airlocks in it? I am looking for a freezer to use just for fermentation. thanks Matt

Fair question, I do 10 galon batches split between two carboys. So they are identical. I would need it to be able to hold a fermentation temp and then cold crash before kegging. With the ability to hold a low temp, I may give lagering a try.

I had seen that thread, and I may need to make some carboy cut outs. I just hoping to avoid making a trip to measure this stuff out as I am not ready for the freezer yet. I am redoing my workshop and I wanted to make a section of workbench high enough that I could mount a freezer on wheels...

Money is not the issue. Space constraints are. Ideally I would want it to be able to hold two carboys and not take up any more space than necessary. Kegs will be dispensed from a sperate fridge, located in a more convenient location.

I am looking for a chest freezer that can hold two 6.5 gallon carboys to use for fermintation, cold crashing and lagering. I have looked around for dimiensions but I can only find outside dimensions not inside dimensions. Any help, would be appreciated. Any suggestions?

I realize this is an old thread, but I was wondering how they have stood up to long term use?

In the process of brewing this weekend I need to move beer that I brewed three weeks ago from the secondary to Kegs. It occurred to me that since both beers have been brewed with the same yeast, that i could possibly use the trub on the bottom of the secondary to pitch the beer I am brewing...

I actually tried that with the first bottle, but it was unable to hold the pressure. When I put the hops into the bottle, it tended to want to foam over.

I know that it is kind of off topic, but I thought I would just provide a quick update. After the fiasco with the coors light bottles, I went to the supermarket and searched for a non-twist off bottle. I ended up with bud-light bottles (couldn't find the aluminum bottle) as no where on the...

I am limited to a wing type capper, as that is what I have. Since I started Kegging I havn't had even the slightest desire to go back to bottleing, so I am opposed to picking up a bench capper. I was thinking about trying Corona Light, as I know that their bottles are able to be capped.