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Been waiting 10 monthes for this, I ordered the first hour it went live last year, had to find somewhere to share,

I have seen lots of great threads for the condenser style of lids, but i was starting to wonder. Has anyone done a version where instead of a condenser the lid just direct hooks to an exhaust fan?

Hello all, I have been searching the forum for pump mounting hardware options and having a heck of a time finding a thread that talks about the hardware options for pump mounting. I currently have 2 different types of mounts employed in the brewery. The old fashioned U bolts, and some pipe...

I was wondering if anyone has used both compression fittings versus the swage lok fittings, if either works or what one would preferd, i am about the upgrade my electric MLT with a herms coil, this includes updating dip tube. here is exaples of swagelok and compression fittings...

i am looking at couplers of connection my motor to my grain mill, and one of the biggest questions i have is do lovejoy couplers like this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003HIWOQA/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 have a set screw? or will this on work, even though my drive shaft is 1/2 inch and...

I have this motor with the following specs i hooked it up to run on 120 volt, runs just fine, but i was wondering if there was a way i could determine the rpm, if it is different or the same. or if you can point me to some equations i could use to figure it out?

i hav chext freezers for fermentation chambers, i am wondering can i turn it on its side and open like a refridgerator? will it mess up the compressor?

I went through and calibrated all my thermometers today, thinking that i was about to start making pislners and mistakes in temperature are harder to hide in this style. I have an electric hot liquor tank with a k type thermalcouple hooked up to an auber syl 2352. so to check/calibrate this...

Havent finished building it yet, but i came across and old treadmill for the right price(free) has a 2 and 1/3 horse motor mounted on the frame, and i scavenged the control electronics, also the deck from the treadmill i think i could use to mount the mill. anyone make something like this or...

Built a fermentation chamber out of a garbage can, 32 gallon brute can. Right now for this time of year all i need is a little bit of heating so, i did this, it would also be really easy to insulate with a blanket over the top. I have a heater stick for a gun safe as a heat source, works just...

so i am making a chocolate milk stout, recipie calls for using coa coa nibbs in the secondary. question 1 - how do i "sanatize" coa coa nibbs or do i just throw them in a secondary? 2 , could i keg and put the nibbs in the keg and let the beer age that way?

so i use vodka in m to my airlocks just incase anything is sneakey and tries to get in there. well this time the vodka itself was sneaky. i put the dubble in temp controled freezer to cold crash it some before i keg it, pressure drop sucked some of the vodka into the dubble. wondering if i...

Been having this problem, tried 25-30 feet of semi rigid line and bev line, with a picnic tap on the end, i can get half a decent pour then the pour Pulses and gets bubbles in the line from the pulsing. It is 3/16th line. I have checked connections no leaks, any suggestions?

I was going to make a fresh, wet hop ipa today, picked the hops yesterday at my friends farm, and was going to finish picking the hops today that i grew at my house while it was mashing. i was planning on hopping the hell out of it, with the freshest stuff i could. I even took the day off just...

Making an oktoberfest lager, and i built a lagering chamber out of a 10 cubic foot chest freezer. Its not airtight but it definately doesn't let much air in or out. When i open the frezzer to check fermentation, there is one hell of a strong smell i assume from the fermentation. 1. Is letting...

Trying to figure out the consequesnces of pitch at warmer temp and fermentation fridge dying. First time lagering, made a starter, pitched at about 68 degrees, then the fermentation freezer DIED, only temporary option was into the beer fridge, turned all the way up(warmest setting allowed)...

not sure if this belongs her or in the ingridients forum. just recieved my order of an ocktoberfest kit and pumkin ale kit. i activators for the yeast. for the pumkin ale activator, i have Wyeast 1056 American Ale it looks almost like its aready activated when it arrived. i did some research and...

So brewing this morning and grind my grain go to mash in and relize instead of using 2 row, i grabbed base malt out of my bag of pilsner. making an imperial stout, what have i done to my imperial stout, will the beer be Lighter? i am going to ferment and se what happens.

So LD Carlson One Step, is it a cleaner sanitizer? Is it the same thing as Oxyclean ? I use star san for a sanitizer and i have a 5lb tub of the one step i have not used but what can i use it for? can i use it like oxyclean to clean my kegs?

So i have been searching around for places to do custom growlers. just 3-6 of them depending on pricing. The swingtop european style growlers with a mettal handle. I wouldnt mind a decal , one color screen printing or somthing like that. the problem i am running into is most places require more...