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Two stainless front-sealing 550 Perlick taps Both come with tower shank attachments included Different length stainless hose barbs to avoid "clashing" inside the tower Price $50 for both taps (free shipping) Price for a single tap $30 (free shipping) $10 discount if you would like to pick them...

A few questions on these units before I pull the trigger (1) Has anyone tried replacing the stock ball valve that comes with the Mash & Boil with pump? Ball valve are not sanitary and I'd prefer installing a model that can be disassembled for cleaning. (2) Does anyone know of a pickup tube...

This is a 20 G Gas-fired brew system with Electric Control box. I put this together 4 years ago but have never used due a work relocation. All connections are sanitary tri-clamps so this system can probably be set up as CIP (clean-in-place) if you installed spray balls. The only item not...

My home-brewed ales are consistently attenuating well beyond Wyeast published ranges and I wondered if dry-hopping could be the explanation. Here’s a concrete case study (my most current pale ale) to illustrate my point: Malt Bill = 92% American 2-Row, 8% Crystal 60L Mashing =...

I'm trying to do the impossible - design a “sanitary” tri-clover Herms rig on the cheap. But I'm running into problems and need some help (please go easy on my dumb noob questions): (1) Is it plausible to create “near-sanitary” connections by silver-soldering 1/2&#8221...

Can anyone with personal experience using the “Hop Tea” method, please provide some guidance/feedback on this practice for adding hop aroma to beer. (Could I request that we keep on topic and skip all the other valid techniques of infusing hop aroma into beer such as “dry-hopping”, "hop-backs"...

Can anyone give me the formula for bittering effect when adding hops after the boil? All the formulas seem to require OG, Alpha content & boil duration, but adding a mountain of hops after flame-out (during the swirl) would seem to me to be adding IBU's as well. At least that's what I suspect...

What is the temperature difference between the wort temp inside a brew vessel during high krausen and the environment temp outside (say, the refrigerator). I've heard 3 degrees F at peak fermentation but can't find any hard data confirming this. Controlling the refrigerator temperature with a...

Could someone give me some advise on how critical the grain/water ratio is for mashing? I'd always been told the slurry needed to be thick to get high extractions. But nowadays everyones' going with RIMs/HERMs systems which need more more water to operate effectively. Was low water-ratio...

I have a 15-g Sanke fermenter but would like to avoid pumping to a secondary tank to add priming sugars. And priming bottles individually sounds to me like one could end up with inconsistent carbonation due to the tiny quantities being measured. Does anyone have a way of priming the ferment...

Could someone please suggest some ways to for accurate chilling of sanke fermenter (to within 2 degrees) - preferably down to lagering temps, but at very least to ale-fermenting temps. I was thinking of surround the keg with coils and insulating the whole fermenter, coils and all, with some...