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I've used PBW to clean my serving kegs and my 10gal corny fermenter many many times before, sometimes leaving the PBW solution in for a week with no issues. Recently, I filled up my 10gal corny keg with PBW solution. One thing I guess that may not have been normal - I shook it up twice...

I haven't found a ton on a locked-down Aventinus clone all-grain recipe - poked around a bit on here and elsewhere on the internets. The recipe I will probably go off of from here was: 58.5% 9.00 lbs. Wheat Malt 14.6% 2.25 lbs. Munich Malt 16.3% 2.50 lbs. Pilsener 10.6% 1.63 lbs. CaraMunich 40...

I have an IPA in my carboy that is a good deal over target volume. I was thinking of filling a few bottles as a result. In the interest of minimizing O2 exposure, I'll be racking the beer using a carboy cap + CO2. I did a search but was hitting a lot of not-quite-related threads due to my...

I had been thinking about something solid to use as a lid for my mash tun so I could route a recirc return line thru there since I can't return from the side of the keggle (mash basket). Realized I wasn't using my false bottom anymore, and I had an old bulkhead + loc line setup that I'd stowed...

Recently got my new 10gal corny (yey) and on the insides, there are some burrs from where the welds (?) are (three spots) where the handles are secured. Guess I'm not sure that this is a weld or some other process. Just wanted to check since it wasn't exactly a cheap keg, but should I be fine...

I've had a barley crusher for 10 years and have always measured the gap (and adjusted accordingly) by sticking a feeler gauge in the gap from above and tightening the adjustable roller. Got a Monster Mill 2-roller and in the instructions, they say on their 2-roller mills, "the gap should be...

Things I have rigged up / have the capability to do: 1) purge keg via pushing sanitize solution out using CO2 2) rack from fermenter to keg using CO2 If I want to naturally carb, is adding my sugar solution as simple as gravity feeding to a tube connected to the beer out QD in between #1 and...

I have an upside-down bottom-draining keggle in use as a RIMS mash tun using BrewHardware's tri-clamp kit + RIMS tube. Have a Jaybird false bottom + ring stand, but I had flow issues so we've been using a BIAB bag for lautering and the false bottom as more of a grant for the pump. We were...

I'm looking at using a(n?) SS mesh basket in my RIMS keggle. I started with just a false bottom and a stand and had flow issues, and went to a BIAB and have been fine on flow rate since. I'm ditching the bags and looking at Utah Biodiesel / Arbor Fab-type options. Wanted to see if anyone is...

So I have a Bayou Classic SQ14 with the regulator that came with it. It takes a fair amount of twists of the red adjustment knob to go from 0% to 100%. I'm interested in knowing a reliable way to measure where I have the regulator set (vs. a reference notch or line to where I'd have to know /...

Stand-up kegerator fridge. Using I believe 12' of bevseal ultra line per tap w/John Guest fittings. Currently have coils ziptied and hanging generally around / above the top of the kegs / QDs. I notice on pretty much all three kegs an air bubble or two at the highest point in the...

Optimally, I'd like to kettle sour in my keggle BK with it sitting on the burner stand so I can get it ready on mash day, and then when it comes time to boil, I can just fire up the burner. Would a ferm heat wrap (+ STC) work ok for this, do you think? I've never used one, trying to ponder...

Looking for maybe two four-packs of Left Hand Wake Up Dead Nitro somewhere by the end of the month for SWMBO's birthday. We get some Left Hand distro nearby incl Wake Up Dead, but evidently not the Nitro. Obviously not really a whale or anything, and I don't really have any whales to offer...

So I attempted my first forced transfer this past weekend. I have the MoreBeer sterile siphon starter with the orange cap, stainless racking cane, and outlet port. Was using my spare CO2 tank to run gas into the carboy. The orange cap doesn't quite seem to fit the Vintage Bottle wide-ish...

Been bottling for 8 years. Last year, had my third incident of a beer wake up and eat more points once we bottled (despite lengthy stays in ferm - mostly quickly-floccing yeasts). Also brewed a Bourbon County Vanilla Rye "clone" that tasted great but still pretty much had zero carb after 5...

My AB keg did not have any holes. Is this good enough to where we won't die?

My old fridge is finally getting duty as a kegerator. Two questions for now: 1) What is this assembly in the bottom for? It is full of water. Figured it was likely for the ice maker...I'll likely have my shelf go over it, but was curious if I decided otherwise...

Temperature-controlled fermentation? Check. (in the midst of this action, measured 65.5* inside the carboy, controller set to 64*) Ample headspace? Check. (Even undershot volume a tad, 5.1gal in a 6.5gal carboy) Fermcap? Check. Where there's a will to blow over, there's a way...

Just seeing if anyone else has ever noticed anything odd like this... Brewed an ESB (8# MO, 2# wheat, 1# brown malt, 1# C40) on 12/31 with a ~2L starter made from a pretty fresh smack pack of 1968 London ESB. 1.064 OG. Didn't want to disturb the lagering going on in my ferm chamber and the...

This weekend we tried our first step mash by means of separate boiling water infusions. We have a RIMS using a keggle + a jaybird false bottom and stand. I expected things to go awry / some "learning opportunities" to be had, but I'm still a bit miffed on the lessons to take from the...