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Yes, thanks for the comment. It's the first picture that really shows my concern. The rust marks distract from the real issue in the other pictures. In the second picture, you can see the hairline cracking in the joint that continues around the entire perimeter of the tank. Most of my energy...

I need your help and advice. I just bought a new 7 gallon unitank from SS Brewtech. I really like the design and triclamp accessories. The problem is that inside the conical is what appears to be cracking and corrosion where the cone attaches to the cylinder. I'm concerned that this will cause...

SOLD. Thanks for all the interest!

Selling my CF5 conical that I bought in July 2018. Has been an amazing conical holding pressure flawlessly. I'm only selling it because I'm interested in trying the unitank from SS brewtech. Here is everything I'm looking to sell as a package, with the price I paid: CF5 Spike Conical...

Awesome! I'm in!

Count me in! Thanks!

I have a shutoff valve coming out of the regulator that I use to stop flow from the tank supply to the spunding valve. I'm not actually closing the tank valve itself.

I'll have to try that other valve. Has anyone tried attaching it directly to a tank, shutting off the supply valve and leaving it overnight? The small volume of gas in the tank line changes psi more readily in response to very minor leaks. The pressure leak is very slow in the Airtrol valve and...

Well the new valve is pretty much just as finicky. I called Airtrol, and they were not surprised. They said it is intended for a constant flow as apposed to maintaining pressure. I imagine this is fine for fermentation under pressure (given that the leak is very, very slow), but not so good for...

I have made a spunding valve recently after reading some threads here. I primarily plan on using it to naturally carbonate beer and therefore need an absolutely leak free system. Based on recommendations here, I used an Airtrol pressure release valve (60 psi max). Unfortunately, after hooking up...

Or maybe it's just diacetyl I'm used to tasting in my starters? I will definitely try a warmer D rest next batch.

What I've read is that low temps initially in the ferment reduce the precursors of diacetyl, sometimes even rendering a diacetyl rest unnecessary. However, maybe for some reason I do just have diacetyl in abundance in my batch, and I needed a higher temp D rest. I will try this next time. Thanks...

Hi everybody. I'm hoping that someone can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong with my lager fermentations. This is my third failed attempt. Here's what happened on my most recent batch (a munich helles from Brewing Classic Styles). The hot side of the batch was good: 75% efficiency(all...

For anybody in Texas in the DFW area, the central market in Fort Worth is carrying fresh Seville oranges (AKA bitter orange, sour orange). The oranges are labeled as Seville oranges and cost about 1.70/lb. I'm excited to make a Witbier with fresh bitter orange as suggested in Radical Brewing. Or...

I brewed again today and the false bottom worked flawlessly :ban: I changed 3 things: 1) I crushed slightly coarser ( just a little wider setting than the default on the barley crusher). 2) I was careful to start the pump slowly. 3) I put a fine ss screen on top of the false bottom. I...

I had the same problem with my Blichmann false bottom! I was mashing 22 lb of grain in the 10 G Blich pot at 1qt/lb. I recirculated about five mins and it seized up. The false bottom was completely packed with grain which I had to scrub out. I've never had this problem with a ss braid. I was...