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That looks really cool. Is it staying cold enough up there that you're not getting foam? You might consider using spray-foam insulation inside the tower. You might be getting condensation inside, which over time will allow mold to grow.

Here's what I did: Find the thermostat / temperature probe inside the fridge. Mine was behind the back wall. It took 3 or 5 screws to undo, and it was obvious that it was the thermostat probe on a long wire. I think it might have been near the fan on the inside back wall. Now that you have...

Hermetically sealed kegerator and beer line enclosure all the way to the tap. Remove ambient air and replace with CO2. (Although outer space sounds more fun)

You've got the right advice in the replies above. I tried the DIY hand pump type, and ended up abandoning it. Bought a $3 mini pump on ebay instead - same idea as a pond pump. I hooked the outlet of that pump with some small tubing to one the of "carb cap" ball lock heads that has the little...

You'd probably want to buy or make a spunding valve (pressure release valve) that you can use on the sanitized and cleaned keg, rather than just opening the PRV. In theory, if you're always having CO2 from the fermentation flowing through the keg and out the PRV you should be okay, but there's...

You beat me to it. I've constructed these and they work. Not the exact same parts, but very close. I couldn't get my filter to wedge into the hole running through the float, to keep them connected. I ended up fitting a short piece of vinyl tubing over the silicone tubing at that joint, and...

I have no affiliation with Keg King, but as an objective observer this kinda sounds like a misunderstanding. They simply don't deal with end customers (like a lot of companies), and don't share their customer list. But instead of contacting the retailer like they advised, you decided to not...

You didn't really put the screen from the malt pipe back into the kettle before adding hops, did you? I'm wondering if you misremembered your original writeup. Putting the malt pipe and its screens back into the kettle before adding hops is not in the instructions, and would be unusual I...

Lion Brewing has them on eBay for $225, free shipping to the U.S. Less than half of what I paid, and it includes the jacket! Is it believable?

I'd be very, very careful with that. The keg should not be harmed, and the wort won't be affected, but if something goes wrong (and there are a lot of opportunities for something to go wrong), then you're spraying near-boiling liquid around. Think about your bare skin, eyes, etc. I would spend...

Have you considered just making fudge instead? ;)

Fermenter temp. Could be by thermowell, or just fixed to the outside of a stainless steel fermenter.

Good luck with this. If you're successful, consider retooling it to have a gas flow meter instead. Could be useful to monitor fermentations. And to that end, wire in a thermocouple for temperature monitoring, then you've got a winner.

Yes. Or continually recirculate.

Thanks! Will give it a try next brew.

Actually, the idea is to keep the aroma from the dry hop charge from being vented out during fermentation. Thus, drop them in late in the fermentation. Ideally, when you stop venting out and any generated CO2 is being used for carbonating the beer up to pressure.

What do you guys think about this idea for dryhopping: Use a floating dip tube in the fermenting keg, and suspend a mesh bag containing a few oz. of hop pellets up in the corny lid, as high as possible. Use a release mechanism, maybe something magnetic, or rigged for a quick tug on the PRV, to...

Several errors in the analysis. The quoted permeability coefficient is at 25 degrees C, right? I hope you don’t keep your beer lines at 25C. Reference (2) says that for every 10C increase your permeation rate doubles, so you can cut those amounts of oxygen ingress by about a factor of 4 as a...

Anyone have an opinion on the best timing and method for transfer and serving in this kind of setup? I'm fermenting in kegs under pressure, and transferring to a purged keg using a floating dip tube. I've read the advice about transferring/getting it off the cake before fermentation is complete...

Yes, QD to QD