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My issue is that the compressor is running much too often and I don't really understand the reason why. The keg my probe is adhered to has a full 5 gallons so the thermal mass of it should be quite large. I can't grasp how 5 gallons of beer would heat up 3 degrees in less than 15 minutes (from...

Finished my keezer build last week and have installed a Johnson A419 to keep my kegs cool. My issue is that it seems to take forever to cool the kegs down when a cycle runs but they heat back up really quickly. I have the controller set for 43 degrees (Diff of 2 and ASD of 12). The keezer will...

It's a serving fridge. It doesn't work well with the Johnson or its normal plug. I've come to the conclusion that the fridge is shot and just purchased a chest freezer today to go the keezer route.

So after 48 hours or so the fridge was still only at 65 degrees and wasn't getting any lower. I decided to empty the fridge and try cooling it without the kegs. Having the same problem where I only get a ~10 degree drop and won't go lower. Anyone else run into this issue? I'm using this...

So I hooked up my new Johnson digital temp controller to my mini fridge today and stuck two kegs into the fridge. The kegs are both mostly full (5 gallons) and were sitting at room temp before putting them into the fridge (~73 degrees). I just got home from an 8 hour shift and see the Johnson...

Awesome, thanks for the idea guys.

I'm sick of having to clean out my chest freezer after my bubbler pops off ever other brew since I've been too lazy to set up a proper blowoff rig. What size tubing should I buy to insert into the mouth of a 6 gallon Better Bottle? I really don't want to put down the cash for a Better Bottle...

very cool!

thanks again sweetcell! i will do just that.

sweetcell, interesting! hops are such a cool plant. would it be fine then to just train those 2 new growths instead of waiting for a new shoot to grow up from ground level?

Ahh yes I read somewhere to select 2 or 3 bines for each plant but didn't realize it wasn't necessarily the first 2 or 3. Thanks for your answers and the link, I'll try to do a bit more research myself.

Wow, interesting. It snapped like a dry twig, I couldn't believe it. Well I've cut back all the other bines for that plant save for 2 others. I guess it'd be ok to just go with the 2 bines for that plant correct?

Here is a pic of the snap.

So I was just out twisting my hop vines (3 per plant, only two plants) and my best vine on one of the plants snapped in half! I don't have a great setup where I live so I have the vines going vertical about 5 feet and then train them horizontally along a fence. This vine was the strongest and...

Gab, good point. I've never thought about that. I'm hoping, as others have suggested, there's still enough yeast in the beer to make a bit of CO2 while in the keg. Especially after being agitated from the siphoning.