Recent content by fugazzi

I've been doing this method for four years. In order to do a full mash, around 1.25 qt/lb for 10lb of grain, and a full boil of 6.5 gallons, I'd highly recommend a 6g pot for the mash and at least a 8g pot for the boil, but that would be stretching it. I use a 10g pot and it's zero worries on...

Yeah, we have the same one. It isn't sturdy by any means. My kids knock it down regularly, but it holds drips just fine.

I don't put any drinks on mine, but it holds up my drip try just fine. Maybe yours if made of heftier stuff.

Just started using BrewR for my last brew. It's an Android app that I'm using on my tablet. It has a hop schedule timer as well.

Subbing, this is something I'm interested in as well.

If you reform it after it's been used, does that make it brittle or just more rigid?

That's pretty much exactly what mine looks like. Wobble wobble.

Looks great, can't wait to see it in action.

Old thread, but wow, that's an awesome trick. No trip to the store, I had all the parts already, and bam, squeaky clean tube.

I used 3 of the magnetic welding holders from Harbor Freight. I also cut some strips of metal from a tin can and taped them on the bottom of the drip tray so it would hold to the magnet. The strips don't really hold that well, but they keep it from falling off if it gets bumped by someone's...

Yep yep, diy at your own risk. Just sayin that most people in this thread are gonna be doing their heating on a stove and this little addition could save quite a bit of time. My first brew day with a heatstick took 3 hours.

I've been using this method for sometime now, and I wanted chime in and say that I've recently built a heat stick, and this reduced my brew session by about an hour. It's something to try out if you're comfortable with the idea of a heat stick.

I used some hot water, and then hot water with oxiclean, and then hooked it up and cranked the co2 to 45 psi, and it still didn't work. I ended up gently poking the valve with an ice pick, and that opened it up just fine.

I think I'm going to try using hot water to loosen it before testing it with co2.

Great, thx for the advice. I'll disassemble and run some hot water through it. Hopefully I'll be able to reassemble it without leaks, I bought it preassembled, so I've never messed with it before.