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I did not know that! That kind of eliminates the use of all of these oxy-type cleaners to begin with. Makes things complicated.

Thanks for the clarification. I see these cleaners along with PBW in the same way. Most of the hard work is done in 15 minutes unless you have really dried, old caked on stuff which benefits from long soak exposure. One way to improve the short term cleaning power is to raise the temperature...

Thanks for sharing. I have been researching this very thing recently. Fermax is pretty affordable as well.

Kind of an eternal struggle here on internet homebrewing forums. There is the proven best way and then there are the many shortcut ways that people take. The shortcuts do not cancel out the proven best way, they just offer convenience or time or enjoyment etc... But this is a discussion...

What malts do you have access to?

I use a Kegmenter as my fermenter with the aid of a wooden shelf in the fridge. , so not much height difference in the end. They are kind of big and more expensive for this purpose as well. Still considering as it is enjoyable to have a project to think on.

I have been working on my yeast management and will share my recent experiences with nutrients and starters. I have been experimenting with keeping 2ml vials of yeast in my fridge and growing them up for brewing with canned starter wort. The yeast are growing up fine and seemingly healthy, but...

In my experience, the need for nutrients in the yeast starter depends upon your start of yeast. If you are pouring in a fresh pack of yeast that you want to grow larger, these cells are very well nourished to begin with, so the need for nutrients goes down. If you are starting from a stored...

Pretty cool setup you came up with! Thanks for the input. My current thinking is to use a sixtel, mount the butterfly valve on the native 2" opening and have my welder guy weld some threaded keg posts on the open areas for the gas, liquid and a PRV. It is that or weld a 2" ferule on and buy a...

Great insight. I have moved away from sugar in my blonde beers but might try a sugar heavy blonde recipe to try and emulate a tripel flavor profile. So many things to try with this style. Then there is keg/bottle refermentation...

That is the main idea + a butterfly valve. I see where you are going to be able to avoid welding anything. But, this thing has to be able to fit in my wine fridge which has 27" vertical space. So a sixtel + butterfly valve & cap would allow me to put it in the fridge. When I wanted to add...

I like the trend! Can't argue with the Chubby Apollo. I did not see a hop bong style attachment for the Apollo. Maybe they have a separate lid. My want of a dedicated dry hop keg setup is open for all possibilities. The cost of a sixtel setup is looking like $30 for the used keg, $170 for...

Looks like a v2.0 design would be useful after some feedback. I would say drop the stacking approach. Imho only breweries stack kegs. We are more concerned with size, shape, what they fit into and amount of clutter.

I think I will go the sixtel route which will allow for the use of the 2" TC hop bong easily. They are available on Facebook for about the same money. Although I will need to have some welding done to add another ferule but that is how it goes.

No way to use the hop bong and Kegland said it was unlikely they would make an adapter. I will look at modifying a sixtel or something.

Strange as they look kind of 'squatty' in their video and in general.

That is a great value. I am trying to figure out if this could be used as a dry hop keg with their hop bong device. I am thinking ferment, transfer to the OX keg, drop the hops in, transfer out to serving keg. Yeast stays clean for repitching in the fermenter, beer stays clean with the hops...

Have you tried spunding for your lagers? It is great and easy for carbonation.

I was wondering if you spunded to naturally carbonate the beer? Sounds like the beer was not under any pressure.

Ruin is always relative! A little bit of anything is usually acceptable. But, your attention to detail shows your progression as a brewer and should not be frowned upon. Oxygen is the final frontier. Embrace it if you want to reach for the brass ring. I know it gets a lot of eye rolls and...