Recent content by dinokath

Kitchen sink porter. Little bit of everything, clearing out the grain stores and using up some leftovers.

Link Just started using them and they work pretty well. They use VHB tape so as long as you prep the surface properly and allow them to sit for a couple days (since it is so cold in the fridge) to bond, they should be pretty darn permanent. They do look pretty snazzy!

I gave myself a little upgrade when I replaced my lousy drip tray to a nice single piece unit and my standard PVC beer lines with EVA barrier tubing using the Kegland duotight fittings. Super easy, clean looking, great quality and good value for the money compared to the PVC and the advantages...

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Recalcitrance, eh? Nice. Check my first post where I stated it would be barbed fittings on the compression fitting. There was no predetermined position here. Only mentioned the QD's when you did, perhaps overshared my thought process on them by 'thinking out loud' and clearly you missed the jest...

I have wrestled with getting QD's or camlocks but they are just another place for funk to find refuge and harbor, so barbed fittings it is! Less secure, for sure but generally it's just me around and the occasional bystander. As for the worm clamps, I use ones with a big plastic wingnut for easy...

Yeah, that's probably the best advice and hard to argue. Most likely will wind up doing that. Thanks for the input!

That SharkBite is only rated to 200F. It's just 6% more for boiling wort (or so) so maybe it will be OK? Dunno. Probably going to go with brass compression fittings and do the vinegar/H2O2 dip to deal with the lead. Might even skip it all together and just keep using the silicone tubing...

Galvanic corrosion isn't too much of a concern for me. I am no metallurgist but it seems the 15 - 30 minutes every few weeks and being stored dry should render this concern moot or minimal and it seems the chart @Deadalus provided just now confirms it. Even in the tome How to Brew by His...

Howdy, Anyone know any reason why I couldn't/shouldn't use stainless steel compression fittings on the ends of my copper coil CF chiller? I want to use these on this (but the 1/2" version) so I can add a thermometer and barbed fittings, making brew day that much easier. Thanks for the input!

Howdy all, Using the Bubly drops by SodaStream to flavor a 5 gallon corny keg because we go through about 2 cases a week and it's much better for the landfill to dispense from a keg than to use up all those aluminum cans. My process is to add the flavoring to the empty keg (63ml per 5...

That's what I love and hate about this hobby! 1,000 different ways to do things right and 1,000 different ways to do things wrong and then 1,000 different ways to do the same thing. Trick I have found is to make sure you do the things you like and do them again and do them well. Like lots of...

Thanks! I notice the first one off the bat boiled the honey for 10 minutes but also used honey malt for flavor? They list sugar as a substitute for honey so I am guessing it one of those 'if you got the money honey, we got your disease' kind of things! :P I think I will stick with what I was...

Yeah man, I agree with 100% of everything you say! Was looking more at the grain bill and hop schedule than anything else. The honey is what really throws me as I've just never really brewed with it. Heck, up until recently I strictly followed the Reinheitsgebot but am now starting to stray into...

Thanks IslandLizard for the reply! Here's the page I am looking at with the instructions - LINK I was wondering about honey in the boil but that's the instructions so I am guessing it should be about right? It is entirely possible the recipe above isn't truly a Hopslam recipe from Bell's! The...