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I used a quart of chameleon cold brewed coffee when I made yoopers oatmeal stout. It came out perfect. The chameleon cold brewed coffee is available at whole foods. It is very concentrated which helps to reduce the addition of too much water. Just dumped it in the bottling bucket with priming...

Yeah it was way back when I just started brewing. For some reason I had one of those little white hose pincher shut off things. It worked pretty well. Also had a cooler for drips, and it was needed.

My copper manifold isn't soldered together. It holds its self together against the cooler walls, and comes apart for cleaning.

I've bottled with a siphon before. Not to hard if you have a long enough hose and the bucket up high.

I made a copper manifold, but yes, cpvc instead of pvc.

You will want to keep an eye on it. In my experience, you will get the same speedy boil over with 5 gallons as you would 10 in a keggle. Though easier to control.

If you use glass it needs to be like a Pyrex that won't break from the heat. The two cup one would work fine. Just keep filling and pouring. I used a 25' chiller in my keggle a couple times before I purchased a 50' just make sure your connections are leek free. I now use my old 25 foot chiller...

I hate to disagree, but with a no boil recipe that gets mixed in the bucket you would need to stick something in to get the wort out and into a cylinder and then you would need to dump that test wort or be at even more risk when dumping it back in. That being said, I wouldn't worry about bugs in...

If you have $50 buy 50 feet of copper coil from Home Depot, two hose clamps and some clear hose to clamp on to it. You will need to adjust for garden hose fittings that work for you. I use a submersible pump in a cooler filled with ice and water to circulate through the chiller. But that's more $

I use a pyrex measuring cup to vorlauf. You only want to drain a liter or two at a time before gently pouring it back on top of the grain bed and repeat a lot of times. I just got a pump to do this for me, but haven't tried it yet. Trying to visualize what you are saying about the chiller. You...

It depends on batch size too. A one gallon batch where the yeast takes right off should be good in 6days. But a 5 gallon batch I would leave for at least 2 weeks. Is the airlock more active now?

I lived in Bedford NH for a while. My well water smelled like iron out of the tap and caused everything to rust.

You have the answer to your problem coming to you in the mail.

It's deadly to dogs as well

Ok, sounds like you are doing a no boil recipe. Correct? If you used exactly the right amount of water that the recipe says, than gravity readings aren't needed. Don't bottle after 4 days. Give it 14 days and you should be fine. You should also see airlock activity pick up by day 3

I store all of my ss kegs with star San. No issues yet

Works every time on oxiclean residue

My friend got an infection from dry hops. We did a 10 gal batch and spit it. The recipe was given to us and the citra hops that were given to us for dry hopping came from an open un refrigerated package that I watch the LHBS guy measure on his scale. They didn't smell good, so I didn't dry hop...

Can opener? How did that happen?

Give at least 2 weeks to bottle condition