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You might be able to loosen the tri-clamp without taking it off and let pressure out, but it is a risky proposition. I have the 7 gallon unitank and do pressure transfers to the keg. I once forgot to depressurize the unitank afterward and undid the PRV to start cleaning. It scared the crap out...

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Thanks. Do you think it’s necessary to do some kind of Calc for the restrictor plate?

I was happy to see this article come up. I just tapped my first nitro in a couple years, a dry Irish stout. In the article it says to make sure to balance your draft lines. I'm familiar with balancing lines, but am wondering about the higher pressure. Do you balance the draft line at the...

Welcome! Have you seen Elvis lately? Wondering if Tupelo is where he went after he faked his death? (Asking for a friend.)

I tried BIAB recirc with a RIMS tube for a while. I had terrible problems with stuck mashes. I decided to switch to traditional 3 vessel...and ended up having a few stuck mashes! What I learned is that you need to start the recirc very slowly to "set" the drain bed within the grains. After...

Maybe I’m mistaken, but that ISN’T the NorCal yeast brink. Isn’t it just a sight glass?

This wasn’t a deceptive labeling thing. There was a sign for Surly Hell, a lager, and a stack of Surly Rocket Surgery Haze Ale right next to it. I don’t bought I was buying the lager. The box I bought is clearly labeled as a hazy. I just grabbed the wrong box and didn’t notice until I got home...

Get real. It’s not the prep, it’s the colonoscopy! You ordered the drink, you got a big tube shoved up your...

I accidentally bought a hazy the other day. I was reaching for a lager from a stack of 12 packs and didn't notice until I got home that it was actually a hazy in the same color packaging as the lager. (I'm not always the most detailed guy!) I'm not sure if the sign was wrong or they were just...

Um, I don't think you should be using people as a heat shield. :p

Yes, you can transfer the scobie to another jar with sweet tea in it. I never rested mine. I was much more lax in my sanitation for kombucha than I am with beer. My favorite flavor was black tea with some fresh ginger and about a teaspoon of sugar added at bottling. I used plastic PET bottles...

Looks like it's time to put your money where your mouth is. I can tell by some of your references you are an old school 'Murica guy. All three of those panels are made in Asia. If you really miss things being manufactured in the USA, you should do the absolute best thing you can do to support...

See. I had you pegged. Impatient. 🎤💧

Part of my advice was a push to have your first batch be as good as it can. It’s a great way to start off. I thought my first batch was amazing and so much better than the light lagger from a regional brewery here that it gave me the confidence to believe that making my own beer was better than...

Just wait to brew your second batch and skip the secondary. You will do more harm to your beer than you will benefit by rushing it. The oxidization that will happen in that transfer will affect your beer adversely. The way to determine if fermentation is done is to check your specific gravity...

There is no way for the dish washer to clean the inside of the bottles. Even if you did a test on a few, you would need to test every position in the dishwasher as every unit has "dead spots" where the jets don't go vertically into the dishes. This would also be true of rinsing detergent. If you...

I was able to see the webpage and dashboard, but it wasn't getting updates from the ESP8266. I think that means the Pi was on the network and functioning, but it was not connected to the ESP8266. Last night I resorted to doing the wiring test, then flashing the board with a serial connection...

Is there a way to delete a device and start fresh? Maybe that will help? I’ve re-flashed, But Fermentrack doesn’t recognize a new device. It can’t seem to connect to the previous instance either.

Things were going great for me for about 12 hours. This morning I rebooted my router as I do about once a week. I lost my Fermentrack in the process. I think it wasn't able to reconnect to the network. I tried for a while to reset the wifi from within the interface, but I don't think it was...