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No it's brass, the o-rings are made of butter. Its rated for 212 deg I believe because of the inner plastic in a ball valve. I wasn't sure if that was ok to use.

i bought my orings at mc master but im not sure what temp the ball valve itself needs to be rated for. I was told it only needs to be rated for what ever temp the water gets to, but if you check the temp at the location it is being mounted its a lot hotter. I can only imagin the heat from the...

I am wondering what the temp rating must be for a ball lock valve for a keggle. I get many different answeres from plummers to brewers. Any set answere?

True. Thanks for the advice.

So do nothing to the hops, just the bag. I did touch the hops on brew day, I bought in bulk for this one recipe

Here is a dumb question. I am going to dry hop a batch of beer I have going. The hops for the beer have been sitting in the frig in a hop bag for a few days. Can I hit them with starsan? Any other ideas

I was wondering if anyone had any input on building a wort chiller with refrigerant. My boss has his refrigerant license and has a million and one parts in his shop. He said he could make me a condensed version of a frig, and use the evaporator to submerge in the wort instead of my water fed...

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I guess its similar but my thirst for hard tea is now gone after looking some of those pics. Well I guess I'll give up on this for now and just go wwith my initial plan of hard lemonade. Thanks for info

I wanted something I could bottle and take out whenever I wanted. I'm guessing vodka and tea would have a short shelf life if just bottled? Thanks for the help

I am looking for an answers or opinion as to if this would work and if so how long of a shelf life would it have in a bottle. I want to make a hard ice tea but kind of cheat a little. Why can't someone just add water and the right amount of sugar and pitch some yeast and let it ferment. Once its...