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Hows the pump doing with the chill? Got temps down fast? I got 40 lbs of ice today and a 48 quart cooler to use for chilling Oh i love having extra headspace. I guess i should do that but i just dont like how the closed transfer worked out of it last time and i dunno if i can use my current...

So looks like i might be brewing tonight. A columbus smash extract. I would like to pressure transfer this when its done fermenting and last time it didnt transfer so good in my bubbler but i had plenty of headspace. I plan on ending up with 4.5 to 5 gal to ferment. I could probably use a 5...

I got that pump for recirculating ice water through the chiller. Ill try it out next brew day. That also gives the the ability to brew inside without having rig up something to a faucet. I also have a new hop spider that fits perfectly in my 8 gallon kettle so i wont have a clogged valve from...

Yes sir! That would be easy for me to do since i dont really drink liquor. Oh and i looked at the bottle again and its 6 years old but i think i got it 5 years ago. Anyways i just got an email from all about beer magazine on fruit beers maybe theres some good info in there to help the op...

Doesnt look very appealing brother. But what do i know, i just took a swig of some very questionable tequila? I got in mexico like 4 years ago. Im sure itll taste great when its done

I think its in lexington off highway 1

Sounds like fun. I wish i could go but my wife is working and ill have the kids

I did put a deferent keg lid on because i didnt want to chance it still leaking

Yeah i replaced all the o rings with a new o ring pack. Well looking at the lid further. Its not cracked on the bottom so it must be the prv itself. I remember it was bubbling from star san when i put it on and turned on the gas but it stopped when i lifted it and pushed it back down. I thought...

If i pushed on the gas side it would stop sort of. Anyways we can come back to that... Um i just went to hook up my liquid line to my keg to see if my beer was carbed and give it a taste test. I was kind of excited. Well i hooked it up and i saw that my gas line was bent for my second keg and...

Heres a close up of the top with the gas side hooked up. I used a universal/5 gallon carboy bung. I may need to trim the grey part of the lid some because i believe it may have been pushing on that. What i did with the liquid side is i removed the airlock and inserted my racking cane with a...

Nice. I didnt get any bad smells but more like not much of anything. The little bit of smells i did get it smelled good but it was very faint and seldom. I was thinking maybe thats a good thing haha. Read somewhere that if it gives off smell then its losing flavor. Ill try it soon once it carbs...

Just kegged my birthday ipa. The closed transfer i rigged up from my bubbler was leaking. It made a loud whining noise. I think i need a rubber stopper to fit the gas side as thats where it was leaking. So lots of struggling with that but it got kegged and now i just wait till its carbed. Maybe...

Im actually at the beach right now. My brother in law is at our house with the dogs. Boarding is so expensive. If you have any college age family like we do that might work.

I read somewhere that pressurized fermentation will decrease krausen. Idk if thats true or not. I do know from this batch i just dry hopped. It was about 1.065 i think and it never broke over an inch of krausen because i put foam control in it

Dry hopped my birthday ipa today. Its a chinook, columbus, simcoe ipa. I switched the lid out when i dry hopped it and added my closed transfer gas side to it. When i go to transfer it i just have to remove my airlock and push in the racking cane and hook up the keg and gas. Viola closed...

Well some people do open fermentations. Imo they are very brave... Lol. Try it with no lid on your bucket. Cant hurt right? Just kidding id be too scared to try that

Why do you think my brew closet is blue? lol I wiped the walls then sanded some parts then painted the walls including the ceiling in that closet. I used a bright blue as a tribute to the cubs winning the world series a few years ago. Lol not really a cubs fan but i realized that it could work...

Haha yeah like 15$ on amazon. Cant beat it. It came with three hose fittings. The smallest one fits straight on my chiller hose. The larger ones might work for a garden hose. It says the working temps are like 32-95 i think. So id be careful recirculating from a boil. Another reason i want to...

As long as the valves are closed it wont matter