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Hey All- I started a thread here last night about lines from my manifold to my burner. I managed to solve that problem but wanted to ask another question that I a was unable to answer via the search feature in HBT or google. I saw at menards a 22" propane hose with 3/8" male NPT on one end...

Greetings! So I almost got my single-tier stand finished. :rocking: I'm working on the black-pipe right now. The issue I'm having is connecting my 1/2" flexible pipe to orifice of the burner. The burner orifice is 3/8" flare (male) but the flexible tubing is 1/2" flare (female). I cannot find...

Hey All- I have 10 gallons of a marzen that has been cold crashing for about 5 weeks and I'm ready to carb it up and drink it. I don't want to pull the carboys out of the cooler and stir up the settled yeast. I want to rig up a system to force the beer out with CO2 into the keg. Would a 0.45...

Hi All- I teach at a community college that has a very large manufacturing technology program, including a working foundry. I'm in the market for a cold plate for my homemade jockey box and decided to see if our foundry casts aluminum. Low and behold they do A LOT of aluminum casting. If I...

Hey All- Searched the forum and couldn't find an answer so here goes: I'm going to be kegging some beer this weekend and want to bottle some, too. Do you think using sugar cubes in each bottle would work or should I just get some carb-tabs? the LBHS is a short distance and I cannot get...

I did my first partigyle yesterday. Mashed 45# of grain. Got 10gal of IPA from first runnings (did have to add about 1# of DME since I didn't get the 13 gallon preboil volume I was looking for) and 10 gal of pale ale from the 2nd and part of 3rd runnings. Had about 3 gallons of 3rd...

Just tapped my keg of dry stout (on Tuesday) and my keg of marzen (tonight). My first kegs ever! Both beers are fantastic. Made a black and tan with them tonight. Very tasty!

Hey All- Just got a ranco controller for my birthday that is going to allow me to have a HERMS setup. I also got an additional 10" submersible probe from brewers Hardware. I've alread retrofitted my 10gal MLT with a copper tube thermowell for the standard ranco temp probe. But I'd like to...

EDIT: Not sure how to change the subject line--should read "Question for The Lagerers" A earlier post on cold conditioning got me thinking: I am currently cold conditioning 10gal of kolsch. Using 2 coolers and some 2" foam covers I made I am able to get the temps to about 38-40 deg F while...

I was rummaging through my local habitat for humanity restore today and found a 50' roll of 3/8 OD copper for $10! I bought it but at this point don't have a specific use for it. I already use a CFC. Since I have a keggle (and 2 sankes that will be converted to keggles soon) I thought about...

So I was brewing a 10 gallon batch on Sunday. My neighbor came over to help me lift my keggle up so that I could chill the wort in my gravity fed CFC. After putting on leather gloves we both grabbed the handles of the keggle and then proceeded to put our hands UNDER that hot keggle. My neighbor...

I had a pretty good father's day yesterday: a refractometer from my wife and kids and my sister's boyfriend donated to 2 (legit) sanke kegs to my cause. I already have a sanke keggle and was thinking about a couple of things for the other 2 kegs: 1. use 1 sanke as a fermenter and convert the...

Anyone headed to Founders Fest in Grand Rapids today? Should be a good time. http://www.foundersbrewing.com/foundersnew/foundersfest/

Hey All-- I pickup up a freezer at a garage sale a few weeks ago. Was told by the people, who are reputable people in the community (small town), that it worked. Plugged it in, ran for about 12 hours and died. Did some testing, resoldering, etc. and determined it was the compressor. Not worth...

Hey all-- I've completed 3 AG batches using batch-sparging techniques. Efficiencies have been decent (~75% according to BrewAlchemy). I'm following the instructions by RichBrewer with regards to mash volume and sparge volumes. I typically input 6.5 gal as my preboil volume into my software...

Was playing around with the seal generator at http://www.says-it.com/seal/ and came up with this: Since I'm an anatomy professor I thought the name appropriate. This is a work in progress. Need to work on the slogan at the bottom. From an anatomical perspective it should read "form...

I brewed an AG belgian white on May 1 using wyeast 3944 (with a starter). Been sitting in my basement at about 60F--first 4 days were about 65F and the last 10 days its been at about 60F. Checked the gravity today and it was 1.020. OG was 1.051 (FG is supposed to be about 1.012). Is it stuck or...

Heading out to Claremont, California in a few hours. Any good microbreweries there? Or nearby? Thanks, Dtrain :mug:

So I did my first ever yeast started yesterday. I don't have a stir plate or flask yet so I used two sanitized mason jars holding about 1L each. After 16 hours its looking like this. I've been aerating it about every hour or so by gently stirring with a sanitized chopstick. It really foams...

Hey- I can't seem to find the info I'm looking for with a search so I hope you can help. If am brewing a beer that has a 1.055 OG, do you think I will need to make a yeast starter if using a liquid yeast? I've always used liquid yeast and have never made a starter, but those have been with...