Recent content by lapoltba

Say it ain't so! That was one of my favorite beers with a quite appropriate name. I used to get it on tap all the time.

I have a 2nd 1/2bbl that I had already planned (started) to convert to an e-keggle using a 15G Blichmann boilcoil.

I paid much less for mine and got it from someone that probably couldn't figure out why it didn't work. Shipping was around $50. The units are fairly small and don't weigh much since they don't have a compressor.

It would likely work just fine. I just bought a surplus solid state chiller on Ebay. It will do about 900W cooling and easily chills down to 32F. They were previously used in (i believe) GE MRI machines. The one I got worked very well aside from the pump being garbage. I bought a NOS...

I did some looking around here and with google and can't seem to find anyone that has tried this. I am upgrading to a SS fermenter and putting together an electric keggle. I've got a 1/4 bbl pony keg that I was contemplating using as a mash tun as well as a 2nd 1/2bbl. I do 5g batches only...

Everything post boil was stainless except for the bucket and tubing. The tubing is silicone and was submerged in iodophor for 20 minutes prior to use. The BK is stainless with a weldless bulkhead and ball fitting that get disassembled and cleaned after each brew (they have only been used twice...

Unfortunately I don't keg (yet) so that wasn't an option. I may have tried to save it if it was, but I was just so disappointed in myself for wasting ~$50 in ingredients doing what I knew I shouldn't have....

I'm sure it happens to the best of us at one point or another. I went to bottle a chocolate stout today and as usual, I sample, test FG and taste. SG was good, but it was awful. Sour beyond words and smelled terrible. I'm so disappointed that I had to dump the whole batch. I knew I...

Were you able to sell the empty unconverted keg you had?

Yep, can confirm... I used one of the rubber carboy caps when I did my RIS a while ago. I had it in primary for 3 weeks and then racked to a glass carboy for 2ndary. That sat in my basement for almost 8 months and had the exact same floaters. As mentioned above, as long as they aren't...

I was never a professional welder but I took a welding course after HS and before going to college and got pretty damn good with a TIG torch. I welded quite a bit in college and even managed to learn to weld Aluminum on my own. I haven't touched a welder in probably 4 years and had to weld...

Yeah, I was thinking that the mesh you used seemed small. I was thinking of using the standard 3/32" or 1/4" perforated stainless that is typically used for false bottoms. No idea if this harebrained scheme would work. I may have to be the guinea pig. I'm going to have more volume than...

I would love to hear a followup on your mash basket. I had (what I thought was) a brilliant idea to hybrid BIAB with a standard mash tun, but I wanted to see if anyone had done it first. I'm planning an all electric build using Sanke kegs and I was thinking of doing something similar to what...

Were you able to sell the 1 extra keg you had?

You don't read too well do you? I'm pretty sure I said that it was their choice and I don't agree. You and anyone else can do and believe whatever you want. End of story.