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You'll never get your money back and if you decide to pick up brewing again it will cost you a lot more to rebuild. Think carefully before getting rid of it....

If you can fit a copper elbow in there to bring it to the bottom it will solve your problem. My valve is about 1" up and I get all of the liquid out. This will not solve your efficiency problem though because if you were leaving 1 gallon behind and you added 1 gallon to make up for it you...

If you can fit a copper elbow in there to bring it to the bottom it will solve your problem. My valve is about 1" up and I get all of the liquid out. This will not solve your efficiency problem though because if you were leaving 1 gallon behind and you added 1 gallon to make up for it you...

That's what I use and the little bit of grain that does get through hoses right out. The stainless braid is very low maintenance..

A carbide step bit works well, just remember to drill slow and keep it cool. I have found that running cool water over the area as you cut works well because as long as the stainless stays cool it won't harden. I have drilled over 20 holes with my step bit while doing this and it still cuts...

I remove my tap handles and it keeps them from getting accidentally opened.

This is how I have built all of mine and built for other people and all work very well. 1) Use a wood spacer on the fan so the magnets do not interfere with the magnets in the fan motor. The fan should spin freely if you spin it with your finger. 2) Attach the magnets to your stir bar before...

It really depends on your equipment if you already have some. Are you using a cooler? a HLT? what size is your boil pot? There is no one size fits all brew stand so you really need to build it around what you already have. If you don't have equipment then there are plenty of them based on keggles

Whenever I have someone weld couplings for me I take a sharpie and mark where I want them so there are no mistakes.

I've been doing it for 15 years, 10 years with the current fridge. It's better then having the ambient temp drop down below 38 degrees.... Just set the controller to have a 4 degree temp differential, the ambient air can swing 4 degrees without effecting the ferm temp because of the thermal...

You want to control the ambient temp not the wort temp in a refrigerator, if you are using a glycol jacketed fermenter then you want to use a thermowell in the fermenter. A refrigerator gets very cold very quickly, if you put the probe in the fermenter and set it for 65 degrees the ambient temp...

See if a magnet sticks to it, if it doesn't you're good. One problem with SS drums is the bottoms are sometimes a separate piece which leaves a seam around the bottom on the inside that is difficult to clean.

It might be stainless even if it's painted. It depends on who was using them, they may paint them to keep track of them. All of my stainless pots were painted when I got them. I don't think they would put canola oil in a steel drum.

There is no way to brew 500L cheap. You need a way of fermenting it, storing it and serving it. The more you brew the harder it is to store so you will need a walk in cooler and a way of controlling the fermentation on a 200 gallon fermenter. A glycol chiller would be your best bet which would...

If you use Photobucket or Tinypic you won't have troubles with your pictures.

This is what I bought in January so I have a bit less now. 300lbs 2 Row 300lbs Pilsener 100lbs MO 50lbs Wheat 50lbs Special B 50lbs C60 50lbs Rye 50lbs Munich 25lbs Chocolate

Why not make stands out of steel with 3 legs that fit inside the bottom skirt of the kegs? They won't need to be attached to the kegs at all and it will save space.

I'm going to guess (before I vote) that 6 will be the most popular answer..... I have 6 also.

The volatile compounds are mainly DMS which gives your beer a cooked corn flavor. It gets removed with the steam as it boils which is why you do not want a lid on your pot. The proteins are coagulated by hot and cold breaks, as it is boiling you will start to see what looks like egg drop soup...

I used to have that problem but now I brew 25 gallon batches so I will never run out of beer unless I don't brew for 4 -5 months. I also lucked up on a deal on 35 kegs.....