Search results

This HBT article has some good advice on backpurging, as well as some great weld porn.. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/The-Good-the-Bad-and-the-Ugly.html

I think that with all of the resources current newbs have, they can make great beer with only a few batches under their belt. This forum alone is a great source of information, which you did not have 15 years ago. The real sign of a good brewer is consistently making the same quality batch after...

If you sort the caps by color, it makes it easier to come up with a design, This is over 740 caps, and is about 2 by 3 feet, I now have well over 1600 caps.:drunk::drunk:

I also saw some at a small hardware store near me. I was thinking the same thing. A bag of 20 or so was not much money. They looked like they would work, take a piece of hose and try and fit them on through the plastic bag.

My E-stop also cuts all power to the pumps and elements, but gives power to the bcs. I do have the BCS protected by its own 1 amp fuse. When I power the brewery up, I have the E-stop depressed, log into the BCS, and verify that all elements are off before powering up the whole system. I have...

I got a pound of pellets from HD in mid December. I did not notice a grassy smell when dividing them up. I got an ounce out today and took a good whiff. They smell good with no grassy smell. However, I have not brewed with them yet.

I gotta second Harpoon, Full Sail, and throw in Brooklyn while your at it.

The quote about a protective coating will form on the element is what I experienced in my boil kettle. The base of the element rusted during a water test, but has not rusted since. Do a boil test with water and see before your brew day. Unit looks very nice, by the way.

I bought a beverage air modell dd66-1 from a scrapyard, I only have a little over $70 bucks in mine. The condenser fan was locked up, only had to take it apart and oil the motor bearings (sleeve bearings), after that, I cools great. My doors had some pretty deep dents in them, so I got some...

All of my SSR's are surplus, meaning used Crydom models and I have not had a failure in 2 years. I do Have a spare already mounted on my heat sink, for a quick fix if necessary.

The answer is posted right above you in the stickies! All props given to BierMuncher. We no need no stinking beer gun. Picnic tap with a autosiphon tube stuck in with a #2 stopper. I only bottle during Christmas at the Winter solstice and at the Summer solstice for a beer exchange with...

Not only gold, but it looks like hammertone gold.

I use a duda 30 plate, because I have always tried to cool the wort as quick as possible. I have always been told this is when the wort is the most vulnerable to infection. I don't spend 20 minutes whirlpooling either. I do have a hop basket that filters leaf hops and use micron bags inside...

The Monster mill2 2.0 now has a new adjuster on it that I like a lot. Although once set, there is little adjustment necessary. Go to there website to see the new adjuster, it is pretty sweet.

I like Ipa's, so I tend to go where there are good ipa's. Barley's Smokehouse and brewpub in Grandview off of Dublin rd. has a centennial ipa, a british syle pale ale, Christmas ale, a helles style blonde, and a few others currently. The Barley's downtown - high st., has different beers than...

my beers are usually clear. However, I have also forgot the moss on a couple of occasions, did not notice a huge difference though. A beer that is not clear, put into a keg and then chilled, may act like you are cold crashing a fermenter. There could be quite a bit of sediment that fell out...

keg is sold.

The price may seem high, but these are hard to find. This keg use to be an emergency eye wash station. It had a faucet on the out post and a air charging chuck on the in post. Because of this, I purchased brand new ball lock post for the in and out. Of course because they are new, they also...

50 amp BCS 460, SSR's for each leg of 240, spare SSR already mounted and hooked to unused output of the BCS for future expansion or in case of SSR failure, I could quickly run some jumper wires to get back to business. The unit under the wall wort is a 90 volt D.C. power supply for my pumps.

I brewed a second batch of this for a 4th of July party this Saturday. My first batch was with a full pound of crystal and a full pound of honey malt. I screwed that up, but it was still a great beer, but a little too malty for my taste. This time I went with a half pound of each. Early taste...