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The valve itself didnt fail, it tore the inner lining and i assume when i went to open the valve with the pressure behind, the warmth, and the tear all caused it to fall out. in hind sight i should had larger stainless washers on either side of the bulkhead.

Forgive me because i have sinned... While collecting my Vorlauf, my mash tuns valve decided it had enough and gave way. luckily i had my boil kettle near by, but not before loosing ~2gal of wort. Ohh the humanity... I came out to a final volume ~3.5 gal, but today is still a sad sad at...

Create brew control system. Control MT temps, water temps, boil temp, monitor PH, pump control, etc.

Mount it upside down and add a lever. Then you could also place a conveor belt under the output and have it dump strait into your mill, Then from your mill to your MT!

Getting there my self with my recent budget shortage, I think i may have 4 bottles left? I guess if i'm hard up i can go for my sam adams utopias... Otherwise its jack n coke, or my new fav whiskey Templeton Rye when i can get it... (Gangsters martini baby)

You could split the batch up and ferment with both yeasts sperate then re-mix post ferment..

One may also look at getting a separatory Funnel with stopcock, After making your starter and removing from the stirplate, transfer your slurry into the stopcock, seal let settle then sterilize the stopcock tip before pouring into the vials. 1000ml 250ml

1/4 will work great, so long as you keep the trub out. When i first made my chiller i did it with 10' of 1/4". First time i used it it got clogged. Second time i used it, I froze the beer in the line! So i moved to 3/8. It will work good just make sure youre filering the wort before...

I think he's tring to chill his keg tower correct? If so just make your hole for the beer line largerso cold air will leak to the tower, This will chill the shanks, If thats not enough, just create a homemade PVC pipe that has the shanke cutout and holes for hot and cold sides for a coolant.

I remember someone on here had it setup where his grains were stored in air ducts he constructed, so all he had to do was open a chute and the grain fell into a bucket or mill. I always thought that was a good idea. my 2c

I recently found a couple bottles of Brown ale hiding in my cellar from when i first started brewing nearly 2 yrs ago. Opened one up, still carb'd up and tasted Excellent! Gonna keep the other and open it in another couple years;)

Iron Orr Brewery Never refined Iron Orr Brewery: Its better than a kick in the ass with steel toe boots

Just an idea but place the Kampferstrahl Brewing Co. inside a rounded suquare in red, like a stamp over the steel at an angle... Still Pretty sweet though

Yes U.S.A., China its just north of hong kong, China.

You could always drill on the hinge side of the front of the door..

Just a thought, but after helping another local brewer here diagnose a beer infection, I got to wondering if anybody knows of a good source of info for beer infections. aka descriptions, pictures, causes, salvage steps, etc? Second Anybody wish to start a wiki topic on it? or have...

See your thinking inside the box right now, you need to think OUTSIDE the box..

Sounds like its going to be 75% new stuff anyway, why not just rip off the old tower and build a new one? I digress, the tower should have a top cover piece that well in my case is removable. Drill it out for the beer lines to feed it into the new tower head, screw it to the new tower head...

Not to hijack this thread, But too bad.. But what features do you use most / like the most in your beer making software?

Ok I know im not the only one out there that after having a bit to drink, likes to have a bit to eat. The other day after visiting the local pub my freinds and I head to the local BK and got some food, that somehow, and dont ask how it started, ruslted in the question of who has the best French...