Brewcommune

I'm using a chest freezer as the glycol tank. It works great.

Luckbad wrote:In any case, I'll be hitting up Curtis soon enough to get all of the other parts required to punch the Grainfather and put in valves and such.

Ask Curtis about pumps too. Brewers Hardware may have other pump options.

I don't recall reading any recommended schedule for O-ring replacement. Generally, when I get a keg it gets new O-rings. Then it's as needed. I do like silicone for QD bodies and quad seal for the dip tubes.

New beverage line only gets Starsan before first use for me.

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If you are exchanging cylinders some places will not charge you for hydro testing. However, you need to only use them. Also, if you have a very nice tank exchanged tanks tend to look very well used....

I can confirm that the Tilt works through my 8 gallon jacketed conical from Brewers Hardware to a Rpi running TiltPi.

The acrylic case seems to be a good insulator as it was very slow in keeping up with temperature changes as the wort dropped from ~80F to 52F pre pitching.

maltbarley wrote:Color?

Yes, but which one.

1 XL unless it is the same blue as before.

My next scheduled beer will be a schwarzbier as I can finally step up to lagers using the a Brewers Hardware conical https://www.brewershardware.com/8-Gallon-Stainless-Steel-Glycol-Jacketed-Conical-Fermentor.html . I was wondering if lager yeast is bottom fermenting then a conical might be a less op...

Are you using the "fast lager" fermentation technique?
It working as well as traditional fermentation schedules?

Reid, now that you have used your tilt for a while what do you think about it? How well has the battery lasted, and how well did changing it go?

Well done.

Your recipe looks like it will be a nice refreshing beer, but probably not like a shandy. I like Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Hefeweizen which is a radler more then a shandy which are traditionally a lager and lemonade mix. BTB, when looking how to make one of these I came across the information that le...

I may be able to make it. The odds are currently in my favor.

Not to be judgemental, but Jon has better dreams.

Excellent. I'll work that out with you offline.