Recent content by mtweeman

I reported the same issue some time ago (see post #47). No one had a spare impeller when I asked on brewing forum in my country, so I decided to contact Chinese supplier that I bought my pump originally from. After few messages, he sent me spare impeller. Maybe you could try this way. As...

To start with, there are nice CIP balls from McMaster-Carr available in SS or PVDF plastic. P/N accordingly 7064T1 and 71445T84 - have a look. I saw good comments about them here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/8ky09s/is_a_riptide_pump_strong_enough_for_a_cip_ball/ and here from...

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What's your opinion about written above, i.e. post #25? I don't have much experience in soldering/welding, so it would be good to hear about this from someone who has.

Exactly. Of course protrusion can be done outside the kettle. See Joe Fisher here: By the way, do you have any data how many degrees are preferable in sloped bottoms? I wonder if using pull-through fitting would be enough to provide expected functionality. I have more or less the same solution...

I wonder if it's possible to make a hole in the center of the bottom and then pull fitting through it that will be soldered later in such manner that it would bend the thin walled kettle bottom slightly. Sort of DIY to get sloped bottom and bottom drain at once. What do you think?

Sounds like proper reasoning. Thanks! Maybe I'll try hop mix that you mentioned in the future. How did come out the beer with coconut that you made? Do you have recipe available? Would be good to have some firm start with that attempt.

My idea was to ferment WLP644 quite warm to get this pineapple note more transparent. For hopping, I was thinking Sabro only - no bittering addition, some amount on flameout and later dryhopping. Also, adding some lactose to get milkshake IPA. Do you have any specific amount of Sabro on your...

Hi! Was thinking lately about recipe for some tropical influenced IPA with coconut and pineapple flavor (pina colada). Has anyone of you tried making one using WLP644 (to get pineapple) and single hop Sabro (for coconut)? I think it should work if balanced in a proper way. Any advices appreciated.

Thanks for all responses. During last brew day for 2,5gal I used standard 1l/min for 1 min as I hadn't forseen that issue earlier. As @mongoose33 mentioned, it was a lot of breaking the surface at this rate. Next time I'll try 0,5l/min instead. Unfortunately, I don't have DO meter, so I won't be...

I thought it should be ok to use this topic to keep information regarding oxygenating wort in one place. I was doing some experiment on my last brewday. I split a batch into two plastic fermenters, 2,5gal each. I was wondering if I should also oxygenate each bucket with 1l/min flow per one min...

Here you have it (was quite long link): https://cutt.ly/hxFybn Btw, do you have any video online of 3bbl brewery "in action"? Would be interesting thing to see the brew day of that.

Thanks for all replies. As I mentioned I contacted Chinese supplier that I bought pumps from. They said it should be possible to get new impeller from the factory and send it for free to me. I also talked with homebrew community in my country and there's hope that one of guys will have some...

In fact I already have started to contact them. I consider buying a plastic one also as it's cheaper that the one with stainless head and both use exactly the same impeller. Will see what replies I'll get. Do you think this is mostly because of cavitation? And there's a lot less of it when...

I have used two of the pumps as mentioned in the OP for over two years without any trouble until last brew day. I disassembled the pump and the impeller was kind of blocked because of rubber warped. This pump was used among others for whirlpooling boiling wort which was the crucial factor I...