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  1. Ashevillain

    Screening a Pump for Keg CIP

    https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Stainless-Sprinkling-Irrigation-Pressure/dp/B0721JSCG2/ref=sr_1_5?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1520895443&sr=8-5&keywords=sprinkler+pump&refinements=p_85:2470955011 89$ Sprinkler pump, 1 hp, 845GPH, 144ft max lift, 64 PSI. I've seen some similar builds with sprinkler pumps...
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    Anyone seen a DIY 3 tier heated corny cleaner before?

    I'm looking to build a 2-3 peice bucket corny cleaning system with: - a high power pump sitting on a false bottom - CIP ball and dip tube connections - heating element sitting underneath the false bottom? I also have a 15gal kettle with a triclover for a heating element, this could serve as...
  3. Ashevillain

    10 Mins From Pitching, Dark Chunks in Yeast Vial...

    Hey quick question, has anyone ever experienced dark particulate in their white labs yeast vials? I just noticed right before about to pitch that there are a lot of small dark chunks in a platinum strain of yeast. Is this ok? Any help appreciated!
  4. Ashevillain

    Industrial Corny Keg Cleaner?

    I have been looking into various DIY projects for keg cleaners for a while now. This is a thread to discuss the interest in a seriously powerful and time effective keg cleaning, rinsing, and sanitizing build. The best I've seen for powerful cleaning is a bucket build with a strong submersible...
  5. Ashevillain

    English Mild Looking for Help

    I was on the verge of brewing a Mild that was sort of a mix between two recipe's in Ron Pattinson's Mild! book. The recipe so far is: 10gal 7# Marris Otter 4# Flaked Maize (this was originally supposed to be grits) 2.5# Dememera Sugar ~1.5oz Fuggles @90 ~1.5oz Fuggles @30 I already have the...
  6. Ashevillain

    Plastic Liquid Disconnect... Green residue? Patina? Finish worn off?

    I went to go clean some disconnects before doing a closed transfer and noticed that the insides of the barbs were now looking like copper not stainless. I even noticed some green spherical buildup, (hoping patina due to copper), upon looking inside the barb. Whats the deal? It seems like it...
  7. Ashevillain

    How can I eliminate any chance of chlorine/chloromine.

    I don't consistently have this problem, but I feel like sometimes upon transferring from fermentation keg to serving keg I start to detect slight traces of chlorine. I noticed another few threads about this recently and wanted to examine my own process to see if I could identify anything...
  8. Ashevillain

    Fridge suddenly cant keep temps down, is it dying?

    Hey all! It recently got fairly hot in western NC and my temp chamber has been acting very strange. I have a fridge hooked up to an inkbird 308 and it has worked flawlessly until now (even through a summer on the OBX in a garage). Now I have the fridge inside and the fridge hasn't been able to...
  9. Ashevillain

    Racking onto yeast in kegs: Can you store yeast cakes in co2 filled kegs?

    So I want to rack beer onto yeast cakes that were fermented in corny kegs. It seems perfect really, do a closed transfer of beer in primary to secondary/serving keg, blowing off some of the initial bottom part (trub, dead cells) of the yeast cake in the process of transferring. Then...
  10. Ashevillain

    Looking to hit a specific lager/kolsh profile

    Hey all, its time to fill the pipeline with lagers/kolsh I just wanted to hear people's thoughts/experience with making various lagers and the results they've gotten/enjoyed. These styles really appeal to me: shwartz, helles, vienna, and kolsh and I am also interested in the possibility of...
  11. Ashevillain

    Managing Your Temp Control Chamber

    I am interested to hear how people like to manage their temp control chambers when brewing and storing over 2 batches at once at different stages in the fermentation. The reason being is that I just started fermenting in 5gal kegs, which allows me to fit 4+ kegs very comfortably in my fridge...
  12. Ashevillain

    Anyone know where I can find some X331 hops?

    I see them at farmhouse brewing supply but they ran out. Any other sources out there? Cheers!
  13. Ashevillain

    ISO NEIPAs

    I'm really interested in trying one of these famous juicy IPAs from someone like: Treehouse Trillium Tired Hands Alchemist Hill Farmstead My favorite hop is citra, and anything that throws pineapple/peach. Let me know if there is anything from Asheville you would like, we got a lot of really...
  14. Ashevillain

    One problem I somehow haven't solved yet...

    The least fun part of brewing is cleaning, yet we all know it's important to maintain clean gear. Over the past ~year i've made many changes to my cleaning process that has really improved my quality of life (aka minutes of my life not spent cleaning). But the one thing I have not been able...
  15. Ashevillain

    Thermapen MK4... is it worth it?

    Just sell me, how much easier can this make your life? Just curious because theyre selling for 76 right now. I use a glass lab thermometer to measure my mash temps now, but have plans of going electric/recirc/probe in the future. Not sure how soon that future will be though or if the...
  16. Ashevillain

    Freshy Extra Pale w/ Citra Assistance Welcome

    This is my first AG and first time using BrewSmith. Doing no sparge BIAB in my 15gal BK that is insulated with reflectix and wrapped with a sleeping bag. I estimated my efficiency a little low for my first no sparge batch, not sure if I went too low in the estimate. I will be building from RO...
  17. Ashevillain

    No Sparge BIAB, Ideal MT Size for 10Gal

    Hey HBT, I've read through several threads/searches and know exactly what size mash tun I would need to do various gravity 5/10 gal batches if I were batch sparging. I used the BIAB calculator and it seemed that for even a 1.060 gravity 10gal no sparge batch I would need a mash tun volume...
  18. Ashevillain

    E-BIAB... Is it worth it?

    I have been stoked on EBIAB ever since I first learned about it. I even bought a new 15 gal spike bk with a 1.5"tc for a future element addition. But the more I read and the closer I get to pulling triggers on a build, the more I seem to find that indicates brewing on EBIAB its not quite as...
  19. Ashevillain

    Will Trade Any Wicked Weed/Asheville brew for Pliny/topper

    Never had either of these notorious beers, im pretty curious how they taste! Have access to loads of solid beer let me know if there is anything your looking for. Ill look into any special releases coming out soon and keep you posted. Available: One world just started canning any beer youd like...
  20. Ashevillain

    Ptfe tape is getting shredded by the threads on ball valve

    Is it okay that the tape is getting pretty torn up? I noticed that spike's ball valve threads are way sharper than the threads on the plugs and thermometer. Also i am having trouble getting the ball valve fitted snuggy in the upright position, it seems the perfect tightness leaves it upside...
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