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Jacktar, i was able to drill 3 kegs out and replace with ss tubes. It's been a while but i believe i used a 3/8 (just guessing and I will check), but i had to ream out the holes for the tubes to fit. It worked but it was a lot of effort to ream out after the initial drill. I really needed a...

Sorry. Should have been more specific. I am pumping ice water from a cooler containing ice & water thru the chiller and back to the cooler. Adding rock salt will lower the freezing point of the water thus allowing you to pump colder water thru the chiller. My question is whether the salt...

I currently use Jamil's whirlpool chiller and it is fantastic. I'm thinking about using rock salt to cool it even quicker. Any short term or long term effects of running salt through the pumps and copper immersion chiller??? David

I have 3 Firestone Challenger VI Corny kegs that use the short tapered plastic/nylon gas in tube. They are in pretty bad shape and I would like to drill out the IN post to accommodate a stainless steel dip tube. Anyone have any experience doing this or have any recommendations or...

Anyone have an all grain recipe for Sam Adams Imperial Stout clone?

I’m having a lot of trouble motorizing my bare-bones Malt Mill. Please see the attached picture for my application. I have a 1.5” hole centered over the rollers with a 5 gallon plastic water jug attached. I have tried with a 8” pulley (in the picture) which runs from 240 (3L belt) – 297...

I'm working on my setting up my co2 system for my keezer. I already have a couple of co2 tanks and a single body regulator (with high pressure gauge). I was planning on keeping the tank outside the keezer and running the co2 hose from the single body to a 2-body secondary in the keezer. From...

Thanks KISS Brew. That explains it. Interesting that the spec sheet lists it as "Viable cells at packaging"

I have an anomaly that I would like to resolve. The mrmalty pitch rate calculator calculates 208 billion cells for a 5 gallon 1.060 ale. That would be correct based on a rate of .75 million/ml/degree plato. But it only recommends one (1) 11.5 gram pack of dry yeast. Here's the anomaly...

I'm preparing for my 1st all grain batch. I use ProMash for my recipes. No problems there. I know what my losses will be along the way. I'll use a .2 gal/# of grain absorption rate as a starter until I have enough data for my system. My question is in regards to calculating the water...

Anyone have any suggestions for a good adjustable grain mill that I can attach a drill to. I'm doing 10 gallon batches so my grain bill is 20 - 25#. What are the things that I should look for in a good mill and what are the things I should stay away from? I am assuming I want to stay away...

Anyone know of a good source for 50# bags of base malt grain where the shipping doesn't kill you. I've looked at Williams Brewing and More Beer which have good prices for the grain, but the s&h almost doubles the price with no quantity discount. I wouldn't mind buying several bags if I could...

So I would have about 10.4 gallons before cool down.

If I have 10 gallons left at the end of the boil in my keggle, what is the expanded volume?? I know there are several variables including the sg but I'm just trying to estimate. I'm at sea level. I'm switching to 10 gal batches and am figuring the height of an immersion chiller I'm building...

I am using one of those wok burners (23 tip 175,000 btu natural gas) on my brew stand. The only air intake is thru holes at the base of each tip and no way to regulate or increase the air intake in order to get a cleaner burn. I have played around with the distance of the burner from the bottom...

I'm having a lot of trouble drilling my 13/16" holes with the Harbor Freight step bits on my 3 keggles. I'm only getting a couple of holes before the bits give out at the last 2 steps. I'm using a drill press at low speeds (500 - 1500 rpm) and oiling and gone through 2 bits already. I'm going...

Does anyone know where I can buy some 1/2" id clear hi-temp (to 212) vinyl tubing. Northern Brewer carries 3/8" Thanks, David

I'm currently kegging to 5 gallon ball lock kegs, but occasionally I'll split a batch into different smaller batches (like two 2 gallon batches and one 1 gallon batch, or one 3 and two 1's, etc.) because of adding different adjuncts at secondary or when kegging. I hate to waste my 5 gallon...

I came across the Hop Stopper by nnovative Homebrew Solutions (ihomebrewsolutions.com) and really like the concept. I have been playing around with some 30x30 ss mesh from mcmaster but would prefer not the reinvent the wheel. I found a old thread here regarding problems using the Hop Stopper...

cat22 (I like that) - Heat rises and the temperature will measure hotter at top than bottom in the liquid being heated. Wasn't sure if lower temps due to positioning the thermometer lower to handle 5 gal batches would be significant. Didn't think so and thought this was probably a "dumb"...