Recent content by jmcd105

Every pump is different, it will depend on the specs of the pump. For the most part, the overall height you are pumping (feet of head) is where most of the resistance for your pump comes from. If you are going downhill you are more than likely going to be fine.

feed the yeast!!!!

I always use to steal a couple oz from each of my parents liquor bottles and top it off with water. Who DIDNT do that?

If you have a 2 tap tower, I think your best bet would be to go with a two stage regulator then you can run two different pressures. I'm sure you could split the difference for now but thats beyond my knowledge as to how that will turn out. I'm assuming eventually your co2 volumes will equalize...

What style of beer are you trying to carbonate at 3 psi? Also what temp are you carbonating at ? You might want to refer to this table if you haven't yet http://www.kegerators.com/carbonation-table.php and this thread if you haven't seen it yet...

The earliest beer I kegged on dec 20, is certainly not pushing any co2 out. I just finished cleaning out my lines and kegerator. It is ready for when I get back. Tomorrow I will transfer the two 6 US gal batches into my 5 US gal kegs, and bottle the rest of each. All with the appropriate...

Now I am really confused..... In canada 5 gal is equal to ~23 Litres. Even on my carboys it has 5 gal (23.5 L) markings....

Except I need to get sugar into the bottles also for the excess, maybe spooning a specific amount of sugar into each bottle would be my best bet for that. I would use carbonation drops, for that except I don't have any and my truck is in the shop all day tomorrow, and I am running out of time...

Aright, took the gravity readings. First beer brewed on dec 20/16 was at 1.046 originally and its now at 1.010 (5 gal batch) second beer brewed on dec 29/16 was at 1.050 originally and is now at 1.011 (5 gal batch) not too worried about the 2.5 gal batch, it was a mr beer extract that I got...

I will take my gravity readings now and see where I am at in 24 hours, and go from there. They are moderate strength ales.

So the general consensus seems to be that it will not be good to leave the beer on trub for this extended period of time? I was hoping there wasn't going to be a problem, but if its going to make a difference I will just go grab two more carboys to use as secondaries. I probably wouldn't...

Too much head space in the pails to use as secondary. 1- 2.5 gallon batch in 5 gal carboy 2- 5 gallon batch in 6 gal pails

I was worried that fermentation would not be complete yet, I guess this would only be a problem if I was bottling though? (Which I would have to bottle half a dozen from each batch if I kegged now)

I also have two empty 19L kegs, but the two batches are 23L.

One is in a carboy (it is only a 2.5 gal batch) the other two are in pails, I have one spare carboy. I could grab a couple more, but I mean then I'm sitting at 2 pails and 3 carboys on hand.