Gainesville, FL

[chefchris]

I need to start saving my oxy and my starsan then! No more cleaning and sanitizing kegs!

also, how often should I clean the lines on my sweet masterpiece? I was thinking maybe once a month?

I run the boiling water through the lines everytime I empty a keg.

 

[elmetal]

I run the boiling water through the lines everytime I empty a keg.

ah... that's not a bad idea.. I was thinking I needed to oxy the lines

 

[chefchris]

ah... that's not a bad idea.. I was thinking I needed to oxy the lines

which would defeat the whole purpose of not using oxyclean.

i'm getting a pedicure right now.

 

[elmetal]

yeah but I guess boiling water should be enough... think Im gonna do 2 gallons of boiling water since I have to push it through the 4 taps and I wanna get a good amount through to make sure it's all clean.

 

[elmetal]

hey chris I think I am gonna revisit that ESB this saturday. wanna make a water recipe?

I'm shooting for 5.5 gals I got the recipe if you don't

1.25 mash

double batch sparge

7 gal preboil

 

[elmetal]

or maybe I could go for a marris otter fuggle smash.... hmm...

 

[ghpeel]

Was just recently thinking of doing a Fuggles smash with most of the IBUs coming from like a 3-4 ounce 20 minute addition, just to be stupid. I was going to call it "The Fug Bomb", or alternatively "Fuggizil My Nizzles".

 

[elmetal]

it's a hopslam!

I'd call it the fuggin slammer

 

[elmetal]

(ok it's a hop burst... but it's like a hopslam and the fuggin burst doesn't sound as cool so I had to make a substitution..)

 

[Yambor44]

Chris, used your boiling water technique just now to flush out my Therminator. Seemed to work like a charm! I think I'm gonna like this thing.

 

[chefchris]

Chris, used your boiling water technique just now to flush out my Therminator. Seemed to work like a charm! I think I'm gonna like this thing.

Maybe I'll get one of those threads like "How many people have kegged using ChefChris' boiling water technique". Maybe I'll get an article in BYO.

 

[ldgenius2000]

Yeah Chris and then you gotta start being a pretentious a$$ and correcting people in other posts and discussing about how over rated Jamil is.

 

[Pick]

Did another batch of Vienna SmaSh today over at a neighbor's. He has this old antique carboy that has a wide mouth opening that a mason jar lid fits on perfectly. And it has a wooden crate to sit in. But his conex was a little warm so we have it in a muck bucket with water bath, to keep it cool.

Also my first batch with the Corona mill. After cranking one hopper full, we put a bolt in and used an electric drill to power it. Might have went a little fine on the mill, as the sparge went real slow, even though I did add some rice hulls, thinking that it might be a find grind.

 

[chefchris]

I got way too much beer going right now. I had to come back here to look at my signature to see what was next in line to be kegged or dry hopped. Totally forgot that I have a Stone IPA in primary. Been in there 3 weeks, threw the dry hops in tonight. Bell's Two Hearted is cold crashing and I kegged my Glacier Pale Ale last night.

We're brewing tomorrow at the shop if anyone's bored. I'll have the aforementioned pale ale on tap.

 

[ArcaneXor]

Woot, I am excited - I just ordered the rest of my kegging equipment.

What I will be doing until I get a dedicated fridge is to simply use my kegs to store the beer warm with a minimum level of carbonation (maybe even using priming sugar). I'll then dispense 2 liters at a time into CO2-purged soda bottles and use a carbonator cap to get full carbonation - these will easily fit my fridge and will make it easy to bring my beer to the shoppe, too

Paid $174 shipped for the 10-lb CO2 cylinder, dual gauge regulator, disconnects, tubing and carbonator cap.

Now, where is the cheapest place to get CO2 filled in Gainesville again?

 

[Pick]

I just got an extra 5 lb tank, plus fill at Airgas on Waldo Road. I think it was $17.50 for the fill. The other place is Alachua Fire Extinquisher on Williston road. I don't know their prices. I think chefchris said Airgas was cheaper, but don't quote me on that.

 

[chefchris]

I just got an extra 5 lb tank, plus fill at Airgas on Waldo Road. I think it was $17.50 for the fill. The other place is Alachua Fire Extinquisher on Williston road. I don't know their prices. I think chefchris said Airgas was cheaper, but don't quote me on that.

I believe Airgas is cheaper. Great group of guys that work there. A friend of mine at work smashed my regulator and they did everything they could to fix it for free. Didn't even ask them to fix it, they just started working on it.

It probably helped that Sarah took it up there and not me.

 

[hundy]

Speaking of regulators... Think they'd have a nipple for connecting two premium micromatic regs together so I can have a dual primary? It'd have to be a weird nipple, because it seems I'm going to have to use the tank screw-on to connect one to the other... Hi pressure gauge came off easily, but this damn stem for the tank connection is ridiculously tight. Measured it seems it'd have to be a 1/2" to 3/4".

 

[hundy]

Scratch that, went to Lowe's and made my own. Damn thing's not pretty, but it works. Gotta run the rest of my tubing this week.

 

[Pick]

Chris, any word on when those beer guns are coming in?

 

[chefchris]

Chris, any word on when those beer guns are coming in?

No word, yet. Should be within the next week or so.

 

[elmetal]

alachua fire ext is 16 for 5lbs and 26 I believe for a 20 lbs.

 

[ArcaneXor]

Thanks for the advice on the CO2. Do they both fill, or do they exchange? I'd like to keep my shiny new canister when it gets here

 

[elmetal]

never been to airgas, but alachua fire ext fills. which is why I like them.

 

[ldgenius2000]

Airgas exchanges, if you like your current tank avoid it for a while.

 

[elmetal]

do they exchange close to hydro date? cus Im thinking of usingmy 20 until it's close to hydro then exchanging

 

[chefchris]

do they exchange close to hydro date? cus Im thinking of usingmy 20 until it's close to hydro then exchanging

ya, i bought my tank off of craigslist. it was a couple years out of hydro. I actually want to say it was 4 years out of date. They exchanged it no problem , no fee.

 

[elmetal]

ya, i bought my tank off of craigslist. it was a couple years out of hydro. I actually want to say it was 4 years out of date. They exchanged it no problem , no fee.

how much is it over there?

 

[chefchris]

how much is it over there?

low 20s.

****

 

[elmetal]

sweet!
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