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Excellent question. To start I force water through it with a garden hose. Then I use my pump. Before use I fill my HLT with 2.5 gal of starsan and recirc the system for about 10 min, then I shut the pumps off and let it sit full of star san until I'm ready to chill. Right before use I empty...

I've used elderflowers in the past, 5 min boil, but I'd use elderflower liquor in the future. The flowers were very mild in flavoring, the liquor imparted more. Absolute makes a hibiscus vodka, I'd taste it, and add appropriately in fermenter. If you want to use the actual flower for a...

Good advice, I use a hop substitution chart, it helps especially in the LHBS when they are out. That can be a life saver. Google it or try captain brew if you are standing there scratching your head saying, they don't have my hop... but I can't get it online in time....

I don't even want to know how much all that cost, I'm grumbling about my recent upgrade to SS QD's, and three piece valves cost, that manifold set up with the clamps, that's sexy. Does she have a sister? What's your wort chill time, I can drop 5.5 gallons on a recirc through a 20' CFWC...

I've typically brewed them with mosaic/simcoe/citra. I have a popular one called "face plant" my buddies love it, when I tap it i half expect a line at the door. This is a pellet beer, no cryo, they were out at farmhouse and I kept the recipe the same. This weekend I'm brewing a sticky...

Perfect reply, I think I shed a tear on this one.

I agree, make your own water, don't rely on tap. Building water is really easy, and takes just a few tools, also it's a bit like breaking bad. I use distilled, but RO is similar just a bit higher in pH, distilled is 7. RO is 8. From these blank canvasses I build what ever I want. Just...

It's over there on the left. Not sexy, but works until it move up to a bigger kit.

I have a 10 gallon aluminum tamale pot, Amazon, $40 with lid, I drilled it for a ball valve (weldless, taken from the biol kettle kit, got a 3 piece for that) and second hole for sight gage and thermometer. Works great, it only has to heat water. Not very demanding.

Maybe we are on to something here. Let's develop a recipe for a corn and rice American adjunct lager that costs less the $0.50 a can retail, tastes like crap, has a sub 5% abv, no mouth feel and is skunky. Then we hire half naked beautiful models and sports figures to sell it in a powerhouse...

So the deal is how they drink. I have a 20 year old daughter, in college. Her friends drink with a singular purpose. Get drunk, my beer, on tap, and uncontrolled does not exactlymeet this purpose. Going to town on a NEIPA while playing flip cup or beer pong just gets them drunk too fast, or...

Thanks, I'll rebuild it. On an annoying addition both my digital thermometers did not read correct, it held at 82 for two hours, then I checked it, the second thermometer read 147, then after resetting 119. I pitched on faith, and in my fermentation chamber learned it was 62. Now I'm...

I built a 18' cf chiller, 5/8 diameter garden hose, with a 3/8 id copper tube. I'm only getting a 100 degree drop, leaving my wort I. An ice bath in Florida for 4-5 hours to hit pitch. I think my ID to OD tolerance is too tight. Has anyone run 1" hose, or can recommend the right...

The entire build is on my blog: https://handcraftedale.wordpress.com

7.1 cu foot freezer, wrapped in poplar, with 4 tap, dual pressure system. Finish is weathered gray, satin varnish.

Four old cornys who are thisty and in need of love.

Have you considered freezeg or kreezer? Possibly kreezeger, or the most ludicrous of all, Kfreezegasaurus, which is my personal favorite.

I am currently building a keezer, 7.1 cubic foot. I am lucky that my father in law is a very talented master carpenter, and has offered to help with the build. The first stage pictures are here on my blog. https://handcraftedale.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/keezer-build/ The 4 taps will come...

12"x12" stainless steel sheet metal, I need a heat shield or my mash tun may melt!