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Hi Kshuler, I don't use PBW in my system actually, I use a caustic solution used in large breweries. it's called cir-q-late from birkocorp. the high caustic eats up any organics and rinces very well. I bought a 5 gallon jug of it for under $200 and I don't think I'll ever get through the...

http://www.ontariobeerkegs.com/product_p/ss-ball-lock-gas-connect.htm http://www.ontariobeerkegs.com/Ball_Lock_Disconnect_Beverage_MFL_p/ss-ball-lock-bev-connect.htm These what you're looking for? A bit out of my price range...but would consider it if I only needed one of each...

Without co2 back pressure you'll end up with dribble pours and flat beer. Download a psi vs temp for volumes of co2 you want in your beer and adjust your beer line length and size accordingly. http://www.homebrew.com/pdfs/CO2chart.pdf So example, if you serve your beer at 36F and want your...

I'd probably stick with the racking port. The dead space is only a pint or so out of 20gal.

This could work well if you had, lets say 2 conicals. One as a fermenter and the other as a fright tank in a fridge. The bright tank one could be transferred to from the fermenter and would give you a large supply of your favorite session beer. You can then continue to ferment and keg with...

Thats true Dale. A couple of dumps just before bottling/kegging works well. Just not sure how clear each glass would be for the first third or so of the brewhemoth if you fermented and served out of it....by the glass. Thats nothing negative about the brewhemoth specifically, i get the same...

I wanted to mention that a buddy of mine is now using sight glasses on the bottom of his brewhemoths, not for collecting yeast, but to help with only dumping trub and yeast, not beer. He waits for the signt glass to fill, then opens the dump valve just a bit, until the sight glass is clear...

Best to confirm with the pump manufacturer just in case.

If you had another fridge with a tap for kegs, you could use the brewhemoth as a big keg until just before brew day, then transfer the remainder of the beer into kegs and put them in your keg fridge. I had thought the same as you before I got my brewhemoths, but quickly realized that I just...

Ah, I ask because I have a chest freezer with a custom box built on top...If I remember correctly the dimentions are 26"x46" and holds both of them, though it's a tight squeeze. Problem I found trying to find a standup freezer is that most of them have the cooling lines built right into the...

stand up or chest freezer?

That pump won't do for that big of a cip as its only rated for 948GPH, which is about a litre per second. you're going to want a higher flow like 2500+GPH. don't worry about the pressure rating. That's just for head pressure, and you shouldn't have much with an open flow cip ball. The...

The liberty HT41M sump pump I bought a couple of weeks ago works extremely well. AT 60GPM and 200F rating, it blasts the inside of my brewhemoths. Very much worth the money. The hardest part with this setup was finding hoses capable of handling the 200F that the pump is rated for!

Inline regulators, like in the pic, typically bleed off excess pressure from kegs when you adjust the pressure down...and that's exactly what a spunding valve does. The bonus about using a quality inline regulator is it's precision. Very accurate. I used to use a twist out spunding valve...

Here's a pic of what I'm talking about..it doesn't show the port on the top of the brewhemoth but you get the point.

The only suggestion I have for you is to mix up some rinseless sanitizer, like starsan, in the brewhemoth with the spunding valve attached to the dump or racking port. Turn the pressure knob to 0psi, and pressurize the fermenter. It will blow starsan through the spunding valve and clean it up...

Guys, I did a little research on the sump pump I bought and thought I should share the information I found. It appears as though most sump pumps that are not rated for hotter temperatures (most rated for 70ish F) are filled with oil to aid in cooling the pump. The pump I bought, flowtec, has...

haha! yeah, maybe!

Hmmm, did you use hot water? maybe the pump overheated and sprung a leak?

Actually, now that I think of it, the PBW I ran through my brewhemoths the first time came out oily too. The brewhemoths, I'm assuming, have a "factory" oil coating on them that needs to be fully washed off prior to using...this might be what you saw in your water. I'd give it another wash...