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Thanks for the advice everyone! Think I will start off with some ESBs and move into some Belgian beers and see how those go for our frozen spring in Canada.

After a hiatus from brewing after my first born I have a substantial amount of old hops, maybe half a freezer. The hops are from 2017, vacuum sealed and frozen whole hops. I would like to use at least some of the hops, but I know old hops have a tendency to taste like cheese though. Are there...

Good point on the water pan. I actually fill mine with sand. Then layer with tin foil. Then I rolled up about 15 1/2" diameter balls made of tin foil to create an air gap and put another piece of foil on top. The balls create an air gap between the two layers of foil which insulates the...

Yep, I do this regularly and smoking and brewing definitely complement each other. Personally I prep my brewing equipment start my HLT and strike water first. Start the charcoal for the smoker and head into the kitchen and apply a rub to the meat and put it in my Weber Smokey mountain. Continue...

I do this regularly with my preferred yeast. I saw a post here talking about $3.50 for a smack pack - I wish, it's about $9 Canadian per pack up here. Anyway I agree with overpitching. My method is to run a yeast start calculation (Mr. Malty) for using slurry and see how many cups of yeast are...

Akthor my understanding is beer gas is a mixture of 75% Nitrogen and 25% CO2. With beer gas you can carbonate and dispense at higher pressure with the "Guinness pour" and you only need one gas cylinder. You can also carbonate with a CO2 cylinder as normal and then swap the CO2 cylinder out for a...

Thanks for the replies everyone! Looks like all yays for stout faucets for I am going to give that a go and stay away from the creamer faucets. I think some drips are an acceptable downside to having a great glass of stout served on nitrogen. The Taprite stout faucet PN SF2003 looks like the...

I am finding myself thinking about adding a dedicated porter/stout faucet to my kegerator. In your experience did you find adding a creamer faucet or a stout faucet with a nitrogen line worth the money and space? I have been using my standard Perlick 630SS faucets for quite some time with great...

Thought I would report back on this thread. My last brew day was much more predictable. I took advice offered and removed the elbow and short hose on my MLT and replaced with ~4' tubing which wrapped around the inside two times. Also I inspected the gap on my grain mill. I found that it had...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I do crush my own grain and my mill is set to a .033" gap. I do not anticipate the mill adding to the variability. I think I will remove that elbow and put a longer hose on which wraps around the inside. I am curious how everyone is able to get such large...

I would like some feedback on my fly sparging technique, my resulting efficiency has varied from 66% to 90% over 5 batches. I have been a batch sparger for 5 years but I retired my cooler MLT this year - it was time, something nasty grew in the insulation. My batch sparging efficiency was very...

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Yavid you are awesome. This post deserves a bump for anyone looking for CAD models for equipment design. The links still work.

So some of my improvised first generation brewing equipment has finally kicked the bucket after 5 years. Bad news - really annoying surprise on brew day finding your copper cooling coil has split over the winter. Good news, time to work on upgrades I've been putting off for three years. Only...

I used super glue to attach my gas manifold to the side. Works just fine, no risk of hitting lines.

Welcome mtnagel, enjoy the kegerator! Let us know how trimming the shelf supports go.

My recommendation is to cut out circles of cardboard of the correct diameter and toss them in there, see what you think. Be aware of the plastic tabs where the shelves sit since that is the tightest part of the fridge. Mark 3/4" away from the side wall, that is where the plastic tabs extend too...

I used a tape measure and a pair of calipers. Measured the width of the outside, then calipers on the wall thickness. Inner width = Outside width - 2*thickness. I forget how I measured the length but I likely did something similar. The gray dimensions are reference dimensions calculated by the...