chickypad
lupulin shift victim
This thread should be a pay-it-forward for people to get rid of stuff they don't use, but others might.
Great idea. I'll take the 3 gal keg OP, you can have my bottle brush.
This thread should be a pay-it-forward for people to get rid of stuff they don't use, but others might.
When I transfer I already have CO2 out for purging, so using it to start the siphon only makes sense. But even before CO2, I found it easier to use a small air pump in the opposite stem of the carboy cap. (It was a cheap little plastic thing made for blowing up exercise balls that my wife had.)What do you find that is not useful about an auto siphon? I find it an indispensable piece of equipment. What do you use instead?
I bought a small thermometer to install in the side of my Igloo mash tun. It's not accurate enough to use for mashing and the probe sticks out too far inside the mash tun, so I keep hitting and bending it when I stir the mash at the start and during batch sparging. I'm real tempted to remove it if I can figure out the best way to patch the hole. Waste of money.
When I transfer I already have CO2 out for purging, so using it to start the siphon only makes sense. But even before CO2, I found it easier to use a small air pump in the opposite stem of the carboy cap. (It was a cheap little plastic thing made for blowing up exercise balls that my wife had.)
Never mind if you're using buckets.
Broken glass is a lousy adjunct.
My most useless is the hydrometer! I went through two when I was starting out, and I had them long enough to get my methods in order (efficiency for my system and my fermentation times), but the damn things break just looking at them! It's absurd. I'm content not knowing my efficiency for every batch and saying a Hail Mary before I bottle. It's better than keeping the hydrometer factory in the black all on my own.
Reading other people's posts, I feel like a statistical anomaly that I've been brewing for 7 years and still on my 1st hydrometer.
Beer filter. Bought it on sale from more beer. Have yet to use it.
Thanks for reminding me. I also have a wine thief sitting right beside the auto siphon. Niether one has been used in 7 or 8 years. :cross:
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This thread should be a pay-it-forward for people to get rid of stuff they don't use, but others might.
What do you find that is not useful about an auto siphon? I find it an indispensable piece of equipment. What do you use instead?
My most useless item is a calcium carbonate I bought when I first started trying to alter water chemistry. Just dont ever need that stuff with my water it turns out.
IDK air pumps and co2 - much more $$ than an autosiphon.....
My beer gun bottle filler. It was $80, and I usually just jam a wand or hose up a picnic tap for getting beer out of a keg. It takes about 20 minutes to assemble the beer gun and it's harder to sanitize. Plus, I bottle maybe two beers a year.
Large funnel with screen...someone gave it to me and I never thought of way I would use it.
Reading other people's posts, I feel like a statistical anomaly that I've been brewing for 7 years and still on my 1st hydrometer.
Tap A Draft system from MoreBeer, bought it before my kegging system. Now it just collects dust.
Auto Siphon
Tap A Draft system from MoreBeer, bought it before my kegging system. Now it just collects dust.
You can mail it to me
My worthless equipment piece was iodaphor... Star San is soooo much better
plus you have to use special CO2 Cartridges.
I have spigots on my fermenters & bottling bucket. Only need the auto siphon if I use my BB secondary, which is almost never.
Refractometer. Guess when I bought it as a noobie, I was reading one too many of those threads that are all too common. You know the ones where some brewers will often extol the virtues of piece of equipment and let you know that without it, you cannot possibly brew beer that is suitable for human consumption.
Simply put. For me, a refractometer is useless. Don't buy one.
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