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I've become a capper snob over the years having spent too much on intermediate solutions. The problem with the bells pressed into shape from a sheet of steel is that they never seem perfectly round. To get a reliable seal, you have to crimp, rotate the bottle a little and hit it again. You can...

They're getting pretty close now. Papery cones and noticeable sticky resin when rubbed between the palms of my hand. If it's still soft and grassy smelling, not ready yet.

I'd probably leave it alone if not drop the gypsum by a gram.

I've brewed more Marzens than most other styles and screwed around with a lot of ingredients. What I particularly favor; 5 lb (34.9%) — Avangard Avangard Munich Dark — Grain — 15 °L — Mash 5 lb (34.9%) — Avangard Vienna Malt — Grain — 2.8 °L 4 lb (28%) — Avangard Pilsner Malt — Grain — 1.8 °L...

As I was suggesting, pros and cons to every probe location. In the kettle, it's hopefully reading a average temp of all the wort that is in that kettle BUT is has to be actively stirring for that to be true. With a decent flow in from the mash tun it should be swirling pretty good. Con: If...

and it's not intentional. Luckily I did have a pretty good inventory on hand but for the items I was forced to drop ship, I basically made a buck fiddy.

In a perfect world, dealers are given pricing spreadsheets that list retail pricing for all SKUs so that they can be imported quickly to keep up with MAP and make it fair for everyone involved. This has been difficult, I'm sure, for all manufacturers who both sell retail and support a dealer...

I guess on the upside, you could have spent the whole $90 on a single gallon of Five Star Acid #5 and that's about the same thing for 4x the price.

As a vendor, I guess I'll go ahead and play devil's advocate here and this has nothing to do with any opinions I have about Spike the company; pro or con. There are different kind of mistakes. If I ship the wrong thing, or forget to ship an item, that's an act of negligence or a temporary...

$90 is a lot to spend on beer stone remover. Hot PBW soak followed by a 4% citric acid soak is very effective and you get the added benefit of passivating the stainless. There's nothing wrong with using it, perhaps just could have had a less expensive way. Yes, the kind of acid capable of...

There's no reason it can't work but you'd have to make a bottom shelf to stabilize.

Morebeer should be ashamed of the "milling" service.

It's impossible to separate the mash from the heat source without some system offset being in play but there's more heat loss in pure water than thick mash so it will get much better with an actual mash. The probe is in the ideal location IF the inflow from the mash has enough velocity to stir...

I'm tempted to stop participating in the dead horse thread but as long as you keep getting this wrong....Craft volume dropped 4%. The 13% number you saw is the craft market share of the total sales. A 4% drop isn't an apocalypse. I think everyone was so used to unfettered growth that a...

I want you to understand that the use of a bag doesn't make the system function any particular way. My system is extremely powerful, temp stable and it's an all in one that just happens to use a mesh bag as my separation medium instead of a rigid basket. I'm just making sure you don't miss...

The ID and OD are both important measurements for EVA because they are sold in several variations. 3mm ID x 6.35mm OD (these push into 6.35mm or 1/4" push fit fittings/DUOTIGHT). Typically used for extra short beverage lines. 4mm ID x 8mm OD - Fits 8mm push/Duotight fittings. Typically used...

It was a bit more hostile than you remember, but I'm also talking about out in the wild, clubs, in my shop, etc...

With a long recirculation like that, finer crushes will just encourage major compaction for no added benefit. Fine crushes are for conversion speed and not without issues.

I don't use the thin Blichmann gloves. I don't know where I got these but they have a thin cloth liner. Just enough thickness that I can handle the 170F ball of grain for short periods of time but leaves me enough dexterity to work the drawstring and hoist.