Recent content by mashdar

I'm not familiar with conical operations; is there a risk of air bubbles entering when dumping yeast? Or is there enough pressure that it just sprays? On the plastic ones, I figured the attachment container gets purged, but I'm clueless. IMO dumping yeast is not a big deal unless you want to...

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Are you aware that the % pump setting just toggles it on and off? It will suck with full force unless you throttle with the ball valve. May not solve anything, but FYI. I close the ball valve pretty significantly, personally, as I had compaction issues at full flow. I'm trying out the 10-15m...

I mean pilsner malt will generate a lot more DMS than pale. That's what caused issues in my house re smell. That's why I mentioned it! A bunch of people on the forum that don't have 3V setups are not heating sparge water. I've yet to hear anyone say it didn't work out. (It doesn't seem to cause...

Do you live with anyone? I brewed in the kitchen one time while my wife was sleeping. Helles recipe had very light pilsner malt and long boil (lots of DMS). She complained about the smell despite being across the house. I moved outside for the time being (I use a 35L brewzilla) and that solved...

Did they come and go out again? I still get backorder notice on all 4 version (4/6 w/wo valves) edit: You have to select valve option before it tells you it's out of stock.

I suggest a bottling bucket. Trying to syphon off the trub sounds unpleasant. Or does the fermenter have a spigot? I boil the sugar, pour in to beer in bottling bucket as smoothly as possible. Then I gently stir with a sanitized SS spoon, including an upward sweeping motion. Then bottles with...

You might inquire with a local welding shop?

All the pieces had 4 squares in them (edit: and tetra is a greek root for 4)

I think you're over-complicating it! BrewMatrix ticks a lot of marketing boxes. You could Call it BrewMatrix4 if you really want to work the number in there. BX4 for short? (Biggest down side to BrewMatrix is BM initialism.) Other ideas: BrewPilot MashMatrix QuadKettle MultiMash I think...

Finally got around to reading Radical Brewing, and today I learned the grape flavor I hate in corn tortillas and don't care for in some pale beers is aminoacetophenone! That's long been a flavor component for which I lacked a name.

Yeah, I'd like to have ~40psi or w/e for soda. Also different 8-14psi for beers would be a nice perk. I guess I'm just wondering if I'm missing something re the PP Maybe I can buy a bunch of 2" stainless tubes from Bobby, lol.

Im considering getting one of the duotight secondary regulator boards, primarily to have a soda pressure line, but separate beer lines is a bonus. The kit at Morebeer (chronically on back order) is ~25% cheaper than buying components, but it comes with rigid polypropylene joiner tubes. Rigid...

FWIW the published dietary mineral content in foods is a "typical" value, and is highly soil dependent.

Batch 3 Lag Time: 8 hr Gen Time: 7 days Final pH: 3.2 FG: 1.022 It's getting accustomed to it's new home. Looked like more yeast this time around. Lots more bubbles even on day 7. How low can pH go?? I'll re-calibrate meter before next reading as a sanity check. I tasted (and spit) some! It...