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Water heaters are lead traps. http://blogs.edf.org/health/2018/02/26/lead-hot-water-issue-worth-testing/

I make tiny beers from my spent mash that often turn out quite good. Try filling cooler mash tun with cold water overnight will prevent lacto spoilage and extract more sugar especially from 170 sparge and low mash temp. My cooler tun can fit two deer so it has very high thermal mass when full...

I was brewing 45 gallon batches, I am downsizing to 15g to keep it fun. 9 hour brew days are intense. Kegs are extraneous now after upgrading to zillas. I charged kegs up at 25psi during active ferment purged 20 times, although not needed I think since they are connected inline so yeast actively...

In lieu of anyone actually testing their hot water output for contaminants I found this study. Slightly alarming, although performing deep flush decreases risk mostly. "Lead in hot water – an issue worth testing" "One water heater had levels as high as 2,680 ppb" So if you still want to use hot...

I am using two fermzilla all rounders 15g and three corny kegs to store co2. I made an inline spunding valve with gas poppets on either end. This way all O2 is consumed by fermenting beer. Co2 sounds like a jet stove for past three days, I had no idea beer makes this much co2. I could purge 100...

Make sure pot is flat on bottom, any gap between glass will prevent heat transfer. Try an aluminum turkey fryer pot for heating water, way better heat transfer than SS. Draw water beforehand to allow it come to room temp. Go propane outside, brewing is a mess get out of the kitchen. Try no boil...

The sacrificial anode is a long aluminum rod that erodes into the water, yummy aluminum. Calcium deposits on the bottom are not harmful. The red and black deposits are iron and manganese in well water. The tank itself rusts after a few years as anode rod wears out. Hot water will extract PVC...

clean out the spider nests they love the burner orifice.

I like the magnet ideas, I do not have food safe magnets or vacuum sealers though. A simple idea I plan to use in my 15g Fermzilla is a "Hop Ship." Place a small stainless or PET plastic bowl filled with hops and float it on wort surface before sealing tank. To incorporate hops, agitate vessel...