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Have you tried transferring to a second keg to test the result? You can simulate prior to buying a dedicated fermenter. (Make sure not to have a screen on the serving keg dip tube or it may catch inbound material.) Also, they make a corny lid with a 1.5" tc if you want to use a hop bong on a...

Does anyone make 316 kegs? I thought they were all 304.

If you hit cash, you can proceed to see shipping. (It says that somewhere on the checkout page.)

@williamneal how did it turn out?

What is best practice for treating water for potable storage? Some iodine or something?

It depends a lot on shipping cost, which is fairly location-specific. For me, it's about break even on most orders, but I like the personal touch orders get from brewhardware, and they have grain that morebeer doesn't carry (e.g. barke). I'm also close enough that I get 1 day delivery, which...

That's disappointing if true. I didn't like the last one I had (only one in the last 10 years), but I chalked it up to bad supply chain. Reminds me of when Beck's started getting made in St Louis. It was one of my favorite imports, then I started getting what I thought were bad bottles...

Signs of life at 48 hours. Here's a 72 hour photo. Looking promising if the goal is run of the mill beer infection film. I decided not to acidify the starter. I'd like to confirm that whatever grows can promptly drop the pH by itself. If it can't, I probably don't want to drink it. However...

I read fittings to mean the post fittings, not the QD. If talking about the post fittings, they may be slightly different heights and not fit in one direction, but they sure look similar. (Gerrit, do you mean the fitting that screws to the keg, or the fitting that the hose attaches to?)

Bummer. Maybe you can use the steam jacket as a chilled water jacket? Might need a top port.

That does look nice. I got worried when I saw "chocolate" until reading "wheat". IMO for a munich replace half the pilsner with some dark munich (I really like the barke one), reduce to 20ibu, and skip the hops after 20m. Also 4% mittelfruh is tough to find these days!

I know some architects who still make some beautiful sketches by hand, sometimes mid-meeting with clients. And up until he retired 3 years ago my FIL did 24x36 full color landscape plans by hand that people would frame. So still a thing! But less so for wiring/piping diagrams :) I still sketch...

Some smaller outfits were still hand drawing diagrams in the early 90s, and I had an great uncle sending typed letters past 2000! If the owner was an old fogy, I could seem such a manual being distributed in the last 30 years.

Oh, that's fine. As long as it's not right away!

Neat find! How does a system like this maintain pressure? I see a PRV (which would need a pipe to the floor or a drain). What's the primary control? Just flame modulation vs thermostat?