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+1 on kegging. If kegging isn't an option you may think about going electric to save on propane. Do you have a stir plate? More copper to cut down that cooling time would be good too. Don't forget about a grain mill

If you are jumping right into all grain your biggest detail is efficiency. My first all grain batch wasn't mashed long enough and i fly sparged way too quickly. I now mash for about 60 min in a 10gal igloo and fly sparge for 30min. Also keep an eye on your volumes. I was buying 3 extra pounds of...

Where are you in south TX?

If you bottle condition in the bottle and then just gravity feed the beer your setup would work fine. If you hid the bottle behind a cabinet with the tube coming out your lady friends wont need to see you pour their beer from a 3L soda bottle and think you are cheap. I myself am cheap and I...

Thats great, I think this will help justify buying a basic setup from my LHBS. I will take your advice and buy the poppets as well. What about the pressure relief?

Thanks for the encouragement. I have never keged but would love to get into it. Hopefully this is the first step. I will buy the o-rings and make sure the poppets work. I guess I will look into changing that one from pin lock to ball. I think the hole may be distorted and is the same as the...

A friend of mine has these kegs. He said that I can have two of them if I do the work of getting them back in working order. He swears that he has the missing lid for that one. Would this be worth it? Are the gaskets all that should need replacing assuming there are no major broken pieces?

Thanks for the advise. I will try this cedar one, but will order a hardwood one for the future.

I have a hoff stevens keg and I need to plug the side bung hole. I cut some raw cedar bungs for it today but they smell really strong of cedar. I want to try them in the boil kettle I'm making but i think they will impart some strong cedar flavor. Anyone ever use cedar? tHey sell wood dowels...

Ho do you know it worked perfectly?

I use 32oz and 40oz screw bottles all the time. I re-use the same cap and it fits tight. I also use soda bottles.

I haven't forked over the cash for copper yet. I just use a large coleman cooler. Buy two bags of ice, put wort pot in cooler, put ice in cooler, and fill with water. This will cool my wort to 75 in 20min or less. I also don't use any buckets strictly for bottling. Just siphon into your brew...

I have been acquiring my equipment for several months now. I haven't been in a hurry, as to not spend too much money at one time, as well as to give myself a chance to happen upon good deals and such. I was lucky to have acquired the igloo coolers for free. Both were from friends, one with the...