What came in the mail for you today?

[Shenanigans]

Yeah I saw it in the store and told my wife I wanted it. I spent a year in England 11 years ago and drank tons of these beers and Fullers ESB

From those 've actually only had the Fullers ESB.
I lived in England for 4 years (1 London 3 Yorkshire) in my early 20s and mostly only drunk Stella.
Shame on me
I did by default have a lot of Fullers London Pride though as it was the main tap beer in the pub around the corner from the university where I was working.

 

[seanjwalker1]

I've actually only had the Fullers.
I lived in England for 4 years in my early 20s and mostly only drunk Stella.
Shame on me

You for sure missed out on alot of great British beers. Fullers was my go to beer there, Sam Smith, Speckled Hen , Theakstons old ale and quite a few local beers in and around Gloucester/Gloucestershire

 

[seanjwalker1]

My missing in action Mark II keg washer and sanitizer from Northern Brewer!!!! Thank you Big Red, Jolly Fat Dude, Clausmeister, Nickky C ! And my wife !!! Woo Hoo !!!!

 

[hout17]

My missing in action Mark II keg washer and sanitizer from Northern Brewer!!!! Thank you Big Red, Jolly Fat Dude, Clausmeister, Nickky C ! And my wife !!! Woo Hoo !!!!View attachment 753713

I have that kegwasher to clean my carboys and kegs. It kicks ass.

 

[JAReeves]

I have that kegwasher to clean my carboys and kegs. It kicks ass.

I loved mine until I ended up with an SS brand cheap. One thing I did to the Marks II is add a stainless CIP ball instead of the plastic post it comes with. Upped its cleaning game.

 

[seanjwalker1]

I loved mine until I ended up with an SS brand cheap. One thing I did to the Marks II is add a stainless CIP ball instead of the plastic post it comes with. Upped its cleaning game.

What size CIP did you get ? Will a 1/2 NPT do the trick ? Thank you for the tip !! No pun intended

 

[Chorgey]

What size CIP did you get ? Will a 1/2 NPT do the trick ? Thank you for the tip !! No pun intended

This is the one that I bought for the Mark II Keg Washer
QiiMii Stainless Rotary Spray Ball Female CIP Tank Cleaning Ball 1/2"

 

[seanjwalker1]

This is the one that I bought for the Mark II Keg Washer
QiiMii Stainless Rotary Spray Ball Female CIP Tank Cleaning Ball 1/2"

About the same as the one I had scoped out. Slits instead of circle openings. Think one works better than the other ?? Thanks !

 

[JAReeves]

About the same as the one I had scoped out. Slits instead of circle openings. Think one works better than the other ?? Thanks !View attachment 753724

I bought the one with slits, but I’m sure it’s a 6to1, 1/2dozen to the other kind of situation.

 

[Chorgey]

About the same as the one I had scoped out. Slits instead of circle openings. Think one works better than the other ?? Thanks !

I’m not sure which one would be better but the one with the slits does a great job and it rotates while the pump is running

 

[jwill911]

Bought myself a Fermzilla 27L for Chrismas. Assembled it and played around with pressure test. Also got 1 lb DME for yeast starter, bottle caps and some 8mm tubing.

 

[jwill911]

Bought myself a Fermzilla 27L for Chrismas. Assembled it and played around with pressure test. Also got 1 lb DME for yeast starter, bottle caps and some 8mm tubing.

I bought a Fermentasauraus from Craigslist, when I started researching it found the Fermzilla is much improved, Morebeer had it on sale so I bought it. Soon as my Russian Imperial stout is out of the Fermentasaurus I'll put it on Craigslist.
John

 

[PCABrewing]

I was delighted to find my order from Northern Brewer was short 2 items.
Even more enjoyable was trying to get in contact with them.
I know from experience that they crew is very helpful once you do get to them. But they company seems to want to hide them behind a ridiculous text-messaging system and email.
This will definitely induce me to focus more on other vendors.
Frustrating! I was planning to brew this weekend.

 

[seanjwalker1]

I was delighted to find my order from Northern Brewer was short 2 items.
Even more enjoyable was trying to get in contact with them.
I know from experience that they crew is very helpful once you do get to them. But they company seems to want to hide them behind a ridiculous text-messaging system and email.
This will definitely induce me to focus more on other vendors.
Frustrating! I was planning to brew this weekend.

I hear you. Not on top of their game lately. I hate to say it cause I've been very happy with them for years. My #1 online brew vendor. But telling my wife my Mark II keg washer would be here by Christmas and then not getting it till 2 days ago really takes them down a notch.

 

[PCABrewing]

Well I stand by my original statement regarding their (NB) crew.
I received a text back this morning @0930 saying they were shipping the missing items.
They asked no questions. Now there's no guarantee that they won't ship via ox-cart...

I wish it wasn't necessary but they stood tall for me when there was a problem.

 

[seatazzz]

New brewvision with the long probe arrived today, three days early thank you Amazon! Heat shield won't be here until Fedex gets it here sometime next week; current tracking says Sunday, but I've not had good luck with them lately, not that I don't understand why. Longer probe goes on the BK, which is now the BIAB kettle for when I want to do that, which is a LOT. So easy. If by some miracle I do get the heat shields on Sunday I'm gonna do a brew.

 

[seatazzz]

About the same as the one I had scoped out. Slits instead of circle openings. Think one works better than the other ?? Thanks !View attachment 753724

I have this one on my cooler mash tun, it works great even when it's submerged under a big grain bill. Easy to clean too.

 

[pshankstar]

30lbs of green coffee beans from Mill47 and some new toys for pizza nights.
Now I need to brew more beer to order more ingredients.

 

[JAReeves]

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30lbs of green coffee beans from Mill47 and some new toys for pizza nights.
Now I need to brew more beer to order more ingredients.

Not that I need *another* hobby, but coffee roasting….?

 

[seatazzz]

New co2 manifold and duotights arrived from brewhardware; husband is bowling tomorrow night, so I'll get that done then. One of the kegs decided to start leaking from the post (I think) so I'll make it a cleaning night too. Tonight is for making some delicious chicken scallopini and reading, whilst enjoying aforesaid IPA.

 

[pshankstar]

Not that I need *another* hobby, but coffee roasting….?

Yeah I’ve been roasting coffee for a few years now and love it. My wife loves it too (well the fruits of my labor) but says I’ve ruined coffee for her b/c nothing comes close to it when we are out. Unless we go to a local coffee shop/roaster. Feel free to ping me with any questions or post them in the coffee thread on this site. You can’t miss the long thread on the sub forum.

 

[garzlok]

My new MLT just arrived! Now I can take down the tree!

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I received ingredients for my next three brews: and Irish dry stout, a Belgian pale ale, and a Kolsch.

 

[wetmk]

I received ingredients for my next three brews: and Irish dry stout, a Belgian pale ale, and a Kolsch.

I love this post. It reminds me of me. I have close to 200 lbs of grain in my garage. I also have maybe 35 lbs of DME there; and $200 dollars worth of hops in the freezer.

So why do I often find myself placing small grain orders? Because I read too many recipes... and they all sound good.
This one calls for this, that one calls for Red-X. OK don't have it, never used it, but I'll be placing a small order shortly.

You know the drill.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I love this post. It reminds me of me. I have close to 200 lbs of grain in my garage. I also have maybe 35 lbs of DME there; and $200 dollars worth of hops in the freezer.

So why do I often find myself placing small grain orders? Because I read too many recipes... and they all sound good.
This one calls for this, that one calls for Red-X. OK don't have it, never used it, but I'll be placing a small order shortly.

You know the drill.

I try to buy for three brews at a time. That usually gets me to the Atlantic Brew Supply flat rate shipping threshold.

 

[wetmk]

I try to buy for three brews at a time

I get it. The point I was trying to make was that I thought it amusing that you order three brews at a time and while I have ingredients on hand for 16-20 brews, we might be placing orders on the same frequency.

 

[bracconiere]

a new decoration for my beer fridge!!! from @Jaybird , along with a book on hops, a couple goodies. namely toasted oak chips, and what i thought were going to be light toast oak, turned out to be orange peel.. (no, he didn't get it wrong, these were all freebies)...gotta do a light homemalt orange, toasted oak...call it "Lunar Eclipse" lol

i have noo idea what to do with the bottle wax? i don't bottle? i do have a ~15 year old bottle of brandy aging...could be cool on that....

Thanks Again Jay!

 

[fourfarthing]

A surprise return to sender box from @CrookedLaker

Speciation for the win.

 

[RyPA]

Over the past 2 days I got a bunch of stuff for pressure fermentation and the addition of a second keg to my kegerator. Next weekend I will be brewing a NEIPA, pressure fermented and served in/from the Torpedo keg, using magnets to 'tea bag' dry hop.

Torpedo keg - 6 gallon
Torpedo floating dip tube, with filter
Torpedo picnic tap holder (until I get my 2 tap tower installed)
3 sets of ball-lock quick-disconnects
Picnic tap
BlowTie 2 spunding valve
Blow-off container with push connect fitting
0-30psi gauge
10 ft 8mm tubing
T duotight/push-connect fitting for the 0-30 psi gauge (backup for BlowTie psi gauge)
FermCap-S
CO2 tee for adding the Torpedo keg to my kegerator

 

[T Murph]

Over the past 2 days I got a bunch of stuff for pressure fermentation and the addition of a second keg to my kegerator. Next weekend I will be brewing a NEIPA, pressure fermented and served in/from the Torpedo keg, using magnets to 'tea bag' dry hop.

Torpedo keg - 6 gallon
Torpedo floating dip tube, with filter
Torpedo picnic tap holder (until I get my 2 tap tower installed)
3 sets of ball-lock quick-disconnects
Picnic tap
BlowTie 2 spunding valve
Blow-off container with push connect fitting
0-30psi gauge
10 ft 8mm tubing
T duotight/push-connect fitting for the 0-30 psi gauge (backup for BlowTie psi gauge)
FermCap-S
CO2 tee for adding the Torpedo keg to my kegerator

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You go boy, it's gonna be fun.

 

[RyPA]

You go boy, it's gonna be fun.

Looking forward to it! Next week I have 1 lb of 2021 Citra coming in from Yakima Valley hops and all grains from Farmhouse.

 

[Elric]

New fermonster joined my family. I just got papa bear (6g), and already had mama bear (3g) and baby bear (1g). Don't really think I’ll ever need to get uncle bear (7g), as I have an all rounder I can use for batches that require that much space and there are a lot of other 7g fermenting options to choose from if I decide I need more that size, but never say never!

 

[seanjwalker1]

Came Saturday actually. Stainless steel CIP fixed spray cleaner for the Mark II keg cleaner. Be a min before I get to try it out. If I don't like it, I'll order the rotating one. I'm sure this will clean just fine, has about 40 or 50 water jet holes like a shower head.

 

[Jaybird]

a new decoration for my beer fridge!!! from @Jaybird , along with a book on hops, a couple goodies. namely toasted oak chips, and what i thought were going to be light toast oak, turned out to be orange peel.. (no, he didn't get it wrong, these were all freebies)...gotta do a light homemalt orange, toasted oak...call it "Lunar Eclipse" lol

i have noo idea what to do with the bottle wax? i don't bottle? i do have a ~15 year old bottle of brandy aging...could be cool on that....

Thanks Again Jay!

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Absolutely my pleasure! It was fun putting it together!

Cheers
Jay

 

[Elric]

Got a brewery delivery today. Bunch of hopwater (first time trying it, really liked it!), some best bitters and some chai spiced stouts.

 

[jkuhl]

BRY 97 yeast.

Using it in a braggot on Saturday.

 

[Big_D]

Got a strainer and some seals for my Grainfather… they should all come with the strainer IMO.

 

[Big_D]

Oh.. and I got this beast! We’ve got a pretty good slope for a driveway, the FedEx guy wasn’t too happy!

 

[seatazzz]

Briefly changing this thread to What DIDN'T Come in the Mail for You Today - ordered some stuff from Morebeer on the 30th, Fedex originally had it set for delivery on the 3rd, and as of today (11th) it's still in a sealed container at the sorting facility in Auburn (about 10 miles from my house). I called on Saturday to rant, spoke to a very nice lady in India, who started a trace and said someone would call back within 24-48 hours; got that call on Sunday from another very nice lady who apologized all over herself but pretty much said because of the snow last week, everything was delayed. Today I'm gonna call a friend at Fedex who is on the freight-forwarding side of things to see if she can push things along a bit. Doubt it, but it's worth a shot. Waiting on the heat shields for the brewvisions & new hop spider; I *could* brew without them, but I want to wait. Besides, I know for a fact if I start a brewday on Saturday without them, they will show up about an hour after I'm finished.

 

[RyPA]

Brewing a single-hop NEIPA this weekend