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I brew a lot of English ales and serve them on my Angram beer engine from a corny equipped with a 'FloatIt' pickup. I have a demand valve that admits CO2 to the keg when beer is drawn and feel that the keg (corny) is at close to atmospheric most of the time. There is no rush of CO2 when the...

I have two Komos kegerators which provide smack for eight kegs. I have six on a tower, one on hand-pump and the eighth smack is taken up with a keg of water with an submersible pump feeding 38F water up a home made trunk line to the tower. It works reasonably well but the water reservoir...

Hi - in October 2025 I am going from Budapest to Regensburg Germany along the Danube River. I have time in both Budapest, Regensburg and afterwards in Prague. I am interested in visiting some of the unique breweries in Bavaria. Are there any tours that readers have visited? A lot of them...

I have probably taken close to 100 brewery tours in my life, but my favorite brewery tour I have taken is hands down the one at Hook Norton in Oxfordshire England. Part of the tour is to view the giant coolship where wort was chilled prior to plate chillers coming into existence. My...

My Kegco XCK-1 kegerator has stopped cooling. I have done all the basics - checked the start capacitor, replaced the overload switch and relay, checked the controller and compressor windings. I am thinking that it has lost its refrigerant charge. It's R290. Has anyone had this issue or...

Hi - I'm fermenting a Saison and after a lot of reading I am using the approach where I step the temperature up one degree a day. The fermentation has gone well and is about to finish at the target FG of 1.011. My normal approach would be to wait 4-5 days after the FG is reached and confirmed...

Hi - I have a home bar with six beers and a drip tray. When I built it, it wasn't possible to have the drip tray feed into a drain so I have it drain into a bucket under the taps. After a heavy night of use I empty the bucket which is rarely more that a quart or two. However the silicone tube...

Earlier this year I got an Angram CO beer engine and posted a bunch of questions regarding the connections to a corny keg setup. Yesterday we had a bunch of people over and the hand-pulled English Best Bitter was a hit. Too much of a hit in fact and we kicked the keg! If anyone hasnt...

I have a brand new, unused, check valve from RLBS in England (Model EWL). This is designed to prevent the beer flowing forward through the beer engine when there is no demand (pump not being pulled) and is essential if you are building a handpump/beer engine setup. These are difficult to come...

Hi - I have recently got an Angram Model CO handpump and refurbished it. I now have it pumping water well and I am ready to connect it to a (de-pressurized) corny keg. I will be using a 2psi aspirator valve on the gas post of the keg I am pulling the beer from. I have done a lot of reading...

I am making two back to back 10 gallon batchs of beer in my CF10 conical and would like some advice about re-pitching the yeast. While I have harvested yeast before, I have never re-pitched it. The yeast I am using is Imperial's A09 Pub Yeast which is the Fuller's strain. The first batch...

Two years ago when I was planning my electric brewery, I was set on a ‘traditional’ three vessel system and read the electric brewing forums, watched the YouTube videos and @kal ’s excellent material on The Electric Brewery website. That all changed when I was convinced by several highly...

I am starting a new panel build and I have just spent 30 minutes online looking for handles to protect the control panel switches from accidental operation. The Electric Brewery sell some that are 12" long which is too big for my 12"x12" box. Does anyone have a source for these? I am looking...

I am using a Wilser bag in a 20 gallon Spike kettle and at the end of the mash, I tighten the bag using the draw-string, wrap the cord around the bag and make a loop which is what I use to lift the bag for draining. This has worked well over many batches but it is difficult when tying the hot...

Has anyone looked into using the new $20 Amazon ‘Smart Shelf’ as a keg level indicator? It would need some software mods but essentially it’s just a digital scale designed to notify users when the weight (amount of product) drops below a pre-set level. Just what we need to monitor keg levels...

Hi – I am trying to brew a clone of a beer I used to drink a lot of in England and have tried the recipe several times, but it has missed the mark. I decided to delve more into the water profile and managed to get a profile from the brewery and I have entered the characteristics into Bru’n...

Hi - I am originally from England and have been working on perfecting an English Bitter recipe. I tend to carbonate on the low side, but the beer doesn't quite taste the same as a typical pub ale. Today I kegged ten gallons of the latest batch of bitter from my Spike CF10 fermenter. I use a...

I have built a copper cored trunk line with six beer product lines to chill the beer from the Kegerators to the taps. i have a small submersible pump to circulate the cooling water and the flow is good. I realize that chilling a water reservoir in a kegerator is not the most efficient way of...

After six months or so of reading how homebrewers have tackled building an esthetically pleasing, reasonable costing and functional way of serving their precious homebrew, I have completed a beer tower and trunk line and thought I'd share the pictures here. My main design criteria were: - Six...

Hi - I have read a number of threads on here regarding DIY Trunk lines and before I start building one I'd like to confirm I have all the key points addressed. I have two Komos V2 Kegerators on order which will be placed side by side (with the recommended air gaps). There will be a total of...