Recent content by jeffdietzler

Found this posting on Craigslist this morning: https://sandiego.craigslist.org/esd/app/d/el-cajon-free-equipment-wood-scrap-metal/6841210640.html Hopefully someone in the area can snap this up!

Stever, try flipping the hop spider upside down - clamp the bag on the outside and hang it through the inside. Clamp sets below the lip of the flange. I've never had the bag come loose that way.

I used to have the same issue of wort flow through my CFC. This is the solution I came up with: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/racking-carboy-through-cfc-no-march-pump-259060/. It uses the water flow into the CFC to create a vacuum on the fermenting vessel to suck the beer through.

For you experiment, why not just use a fermenting lid with the stopper/sensor inserted from the inside? Maybe it could hold serving pressure that way? http://www.homebrewing.org/Cornelious-Keg-Lid-for-Secondary-Fermenter_p_999.html

I'm in too!

in for me too

Why yes, it was the Lowes on Harrison and Magnolia. I couldn't tell you where inside - I was in a daze by the time I found it. I know it's not with the sink repair stuff and not near the new faucets. Try near the garbage disposals?

I used the step bit that I have for drilling holes for fittings. I think I picked it up at Harbor Freight but I'm not sure. It's the same one that everyone on here uses to make holes in their pots for fittings...

I didn't have a huge problem a huge problem with the socks. If you've seen my thread about my CFC vacuum pump into the carboy, my wort sits in the BK after flameout and slowly gets transferred over to the carboy. It takes a fair amount of time to transfer because I throttle the wort to make...

Back when I started brewing, I used hop "socks" for my hop additions and had a little trouble fishing them out at the end of the brewing session. Nothing major, but I thought to myself, "There has to be a better way..." And then I found build threads for hop spiders. I made one with a PVC...

Lip on the garbage disposal fitting to help hold the hose clamp on

First hop spider PVC coupling melted by steam

Close-up of melted hop spider PVC coupling

Hop Disposal!

3-Legged hop spider made from a garbage disposal drain fitting