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I have a Kegland KL18388 digital pressure guage in a blowtie 2, and it has started reading "OP". I would think it means "Over Pressure", but the valve is full-open, so not quite 0 psig, but well below 1 psig. This seams like it should be easy to google, but I struck out. Maybe low battery...

I'm embarking on a first wine kit. edit: it's a VineCo "Signature Series Merlot" It came with a bunch of additives. Bentonite - on the fence. Does it have yeast nutrients? Chitosan - Not really keen on using. Kieselsol - Less averse than chitosan, but leaning toward not using. sulfite/sorbate...

I visited a ~10,000 BBL/yr brewery in Northern NY yesterday, and was excited to see a wide range of lager on the menu. My eyes wandered to kolsh and helles. I ordered a helles, and while it had a very nice malty finish, but there was an overpowering C-hop citrus flavor. It really ruined the...

I finally got around to brewing with spruce tips. I wanted to share my experience, as I didn't find a lot of information online. edit: False advertising. My spruce turned out to be a fir. Recipe was a strong bitter, mashed a bit high. Hops were 1oz ~6.4% fuggles at 60m. S-04 yeast. edot: total...

I have a keg of hefeweizen exhibiting intermittent foam on every pour. At 20psi I thought it was the pressure, but now even at 12 it's happening. Duty cycle is ~1/4 with period ~2s. I'm using a picnic tap 2.0, and tried swapping it in case there was a gasket out of place, but no dice. I'm...

I have a top-freezer refrigerator with my kegs in it. I've been keeping the CO2 in the fridge, but I'm moving it to the outside. I'd like to mount it to the rear, but there's a solid, non-removable metal sheet concealing the refrigerant lines to the evaporator.(Condenser lines are coiled and...

Long story short, I just put 110g~ sugar into 3.25 gallons of beer and bottled it, then discovered the remaining 1.5 gallons still in the bulk aging keg. (This was my annual quad.) I didn't have a free keg, so I used a bottling bucket. I got cheap* and opened the PRV to syphon into the bucket...

For the first time, I bought some water from the (new) Primo RO water dispensers at the grocery. I filled a 304SS keg and two PET carboys. Upon getting home, I remembered that RO water is a fairly aggressive solvent. I'm windering if I need to get it out of that keg. Any reason to worry? I...

Any opinions about fermenting 5 gallons in a 15 gallon keg? I feel like it should be OK if not spunded from the start, but might impact purging of a second keg a little.

Anyone here have experience with impared vision? Particularly for kids? Asking for a friend ; ) edit: PMs please

I have a couple of applications where I need to calculate dissolved CO2 from temperature and pressure, or some other form of the same equation. I had assumed there was a "standard" method, but reading this paper, it sounds like there are a few...

Any opinions regarding cold crashing before bulk aging? I have a Belgian quad (3787) that I'm going to transfer into a keg for bulk aging. I expect it to drop another 0.001-0.003 while aging. I was thinking about giving it a week at ~34F prior to transferring to the aging keg. The keg has a...

I have a used Cornelius brand keg marked "MSR" where others say "SUPER CHAMPION" etc. Is this what is referred to as an "R Keg"? (And were there other ??R letter combinations, hence the "R" moniker?) edit: getting "R keg" moniker here...

As some of you may know, I have cultured a mixed colony of souring microbes. That's covered in another thread (link below). This thread will focus more on general sour beer making methods, as I'm having a little trouble finding advice and deciding what to do. Compost Bucket Sour thread...

Plastic threaded Kegland QDs have 3 gaskets: post, poppet, and what I'll call "chamber". I believe (untested) that the post and poppet seals are standard. I just took a QD apart and the chamber gasket is broken. This is the gasket that seals the bottom plastic barb to the main body where the...

Finally got around to reading Radical Brewing, and today I learned the grape flavor I hate in corn tortillas and don't care for in some pale beers is aminoacetophenone! That's long been a flavor component for which I lacked a name.

Im considering getting one of the duotight secondary regulator boards, primarily to have a soda pressure line, but separate beer lines is a bonus. The kit at Morebeer (chronically on back order) is ~25% cheaper than buying components, but it comes with rigid polypropylene joiner tubes. Rigid...

I have a ~2gal compost bucket which gets emptied weekly. Early in its life, the food would frequently mold, smell bad, etc. For years now, there's no mold and the smells are generally limited. There seems to be yeasty slurry at the bottom of the bucket every week. This bucket has seen...

I know there's been much ink spilled about corny keg lid gasket material, specifically about silicone O2 permiability being worrisome. I haven't seen much specifically addressing post QD fitting and poppet o rings. Do people still use silicone for these? I've seen some older posts about...

When I do a stir plate starter, I aerate the headspace to ensure there is ample O2 for prolonged sterol production, etc. I cut off the air at some point to allow the solution to go anaerobic for storage etc, but I always have an internal debate about when best to do this. My schedule is...