Recent content by Broken Crow

Having started on the stovetop with a couple of Cooper's kits and glass carboys, my three Big Ones were; - Moving to all grain - Building an electric rig with all the fittings and pump and CFC - Closed fermenters and transfers ..and like @CascadesBrewer said; "a bunch of small factors" which...

Looks like what I'd call a "Health & Safety" assistant. I have a 'Sanitation &Safety' assistant myself, which reminds me I owe @balrog an explanation for the whiffle ball; It's not just the whiffle ball, but also the mouse, the bag, and the box that are tools for my Sanitation & Safety...

If you mean the interior walls and floor; what is it made of..SS or plastic? Mine's plastic and I often have drips or rings and I just wipe them with a warm damp cloth and try and keep it clean with each keg change.... When I occasionally have a couple empty spaces, which happens once or twice...

It depends on your usual smallest batch size; Put it a couple inches below the wort level. If you haven't yet picked out a port to install, here's the best you can get (in my opinion); https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/spincyclesubmerge.htm :mug:

Gainfully employed since age 7, paying income tax since age 10, catastophically injured on the job and forcibly 'retired' at age 46.... The word 'sedentary' never belonged in a sentance with my name, but everything I lived for is now painful or out of reach. Now that I'm done being depressing...

I began with stove-top brews, so here's a messy one: I'm disabled so rather than move the huge pot off the burner to mix, I took my large SS dutch-oven (which I had thoroughly scrubbed with barkeepers friend inside and out) and wearing thick cotton gloves inside my rubbermaid gloves; dipped it...

If I recall correctly, DMS vapourizes at around 90° or so but remains stable in solutions below that temp. I could be wrong though, my brain is broken and I've lost most of my science..I can't even remember if that 90° is °C or °F...either way, not a temp you want to bring finished beer up to...

When I started kegging I had the exact same leak happen a few times with both gas and liquid disconnects... I had bought the cheap chinese ones. After searching this site and sucking up the knowledge on offer, I ran out to my LHBS and bought some genuine CMB's and I could immediately feel the...

Vulcan ESB It blew the airlock off 3 times and there's still a stain on my basement ceiling. :mug:

Mine's currently disassembled (until I can complete my 'accessible brew rig'), but then, it's not one of those with TC output that's further down, hence less dead space. To that end, my temp probe is long enough to descend to just below the output. Heat rises, flow carries it, and the dead...

Welcome to a fellow Canuck! I noticed your post in another thread and No, there have been a handful of Canadians on here in the past few years, but I guess that like me, we'd never seen that 'Canadan Roll Call' thread..thanks for bringing it up! I read through most of it and though most links...

Does not look ideal... You do want to keep the probe near the element, especially with a slow-acting controller like that. If you intend to stick with your controller and it's flimsy temp probe, @Bobby_M makes compression adapters for probes...

Exactly the logical approach I chose! ....now if I can just keep up with it :P :mug:

It's not about how many times it goes thorugh, but about how long it spends being infused with CO2. I noticed this is the second thread you've posted in involving carbonating short-cuts.... You remind me of myself when I started kegging: Impatient. :P I do understand; I tried all the fast...

Welcome to HBT! AND: Sorry that welcome is so slow.... Sanke kegs present a number of problems for homebrewers and though a handful on here have successfully (and expensively) made use of them, I think everyone else was waiting for someone else to go first in answering. The first thing I'm...