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My wife and I have built a much larger kegerator and our old 2 tap dorm fridge conversion is just taking up space. A few months ago I replaced all of the ball lock quick disconnects and lines with new. The lines are 6' each and nicely balanced at 10psi serving. The taps are Perlick 425SS...

Hey everyone, I'm starting to lose my damn mind. I've harvested some Bell's yeast and I've been storing a low number of it for a while now and I plan to brew with it next weekend so I've started ramping it up. Here's a spreadsheet of my cell counts. I'm using the methods described on...

Finished build, 3 running. All the parts I need. I went with a pretty dang fast (2300RPM) 120mm fan. Speed controller is off Amazon and the rest is 3D printed or screws Getting everything all wired up and into the shell Bought 5/8"x1/4" magnets off McMaster for I think $8 per...

Anyone have advice on a microscope under $150 for yeast counting? I made the mistake of buying some cheap crap on ebay and while I can see the yeast, it's damn blurry and hard to count. Plus I'm manually moving the slide by hand which can get rough at high magnification.

Hey everyone. I've always been a fan of making my starters large. For instance a 1.086 IIPA I'm making I've made a 3.5L starter from an American Ale 2 smack pack. I expect 360b cells. A hair over what's required for the beer. I'll save ~50b by vol for another starter. Is there any benefit...

Hey guys, I bought a brand new 20.2cf Fridgidaire freezer to turn into a keezer. I have the compressor wired to relay off an SCT-1000 and the fan on 100% of the time. Both trigger off for 30 mins every 12 hours when the defroster comes on per the installed timer. I was a genius and had...

So...Im a freaking idiot. I was trimming some more of the plastic around my keezer door for a slightly better seal (the wood underneath is a 1/16th too thick). When coming across the top some of my slow and steady faded into QUICK AND SLASHY. I nicked the door seal. I had been cutting away...

I have 3 low pressure secondary regulators. They'll be fed with 40PSI from my primary. Can I move the input to the secondaries from the right to the left side or will it not function that way? As far as I know for regulators, 100% of the pressure goes through horizontally. Vertical outputs...

I've tried searching around and looking at various builds and not finding much in the way of answers. I'm upgrading from my 2 tap dorm fridge keggerator to an upright freezer that'll have 6+ taps. No longer can I deal with 1 regulator and a Y after it. I'd like to have 2-3 different...

I've just finished my fermentation chamber with brewPi controlling it and I've got 3 beers bubbling like I've never seen before in there. Apart from being able to look up what the temperature range for a certain yeast strain is how do I determine if the temp should change at all? I used to...

I've tried googling this. All I come up with is ladies yeast infection issues. informative, but not what I'm looking for. I've followed the yeast washing guide on this forum and Im thinking I must have gotten some nasties in my pints. I can't think of what these black spots might be other...

Building a fermentation chamber I'm in the market for a themowell. Finding them at around $30 per with a stopper and down to $15 per without sounded insane to me for a stainless steel tube. Not to mention nothing lists the inner diameter and I need to get .245in DS18B20 OneWire Thermocouple...

I recently moved to TN and I don't have a basement. I miss my constant 65* MI basement wall for brewing. Yeast are not liking fluctuating temps in the house from 70-75 in the summer and Im sure how cold we keep it in the winter cannot be great. Solution? Fermentation chamber! I...

Hey everyone, long time no see. I'm planning to grow my own hops this year and I've got 2 cascasde, 2 nugget, 1 chinook and 1 golding rhizome. I've built a 12x8 raised bed in my back yard and put a 4x4 in the middle of it that I'll secure a pole to (I'll likely use 2 10' sections of galv pipe...

Ive been wanting to make this thread for a long time, but with the offer finally accepted and me going in on friday with a contractor to go over the place, I need to share the great news! So Im a 22 year old, straight out of college, lucky enough to be in a great job where I can afford to be...

So I know Im not the first to this game, and I KNOW my situation isnt unique. But after searching and googling I cant seem to find an answer. I started my first lager about 2.5 weeks ago, an Oktoberfest. I have it sitting in my basement, in a 40 gallon storage bin full of water to keep the...

Ive gotten a TON of PMs about my orangeCREAMsicALE recipe and how to brew it. Ive finally tasted the beer and Im satisfied and ready to share the beer! My only complaints are it's not as clear as I would have hoped and not as light as I would have hoped. Im sure a cold crash and some Irish...

I just got my bargain fittings parts on my boil kettle, and I used teflon tape to seal up the threads, makes sense, right? There is however some teflon tape on many of the threads not sealed by a nut being over the thread. Will this cause issues when boiled? Ive got a good 1/4th inch of...

I just got all my bargainfittings parts in today and Im going to be putting them on my boil kettle when I get out of work here. Is there anything special about drilling into my aluminum boil kettle vs stainless steel? All the instructions I read online are for SS, Im assuming no difference...

Hey everyone, I have a GMR04 GE 4.4 CF Dorm Fridge which has a manual defrost. I was about to buy a temp controller to finally get it hooked up to automatic temp regulation. My question is, since I have a manual defrost cycle, do I even care about the defrost at all? Im guessing a temp...