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well i just called them to see if they had tanks and they said they sold thier co2 division to airgas and dont do swaps anymore.

Thanks for the tip. Thier hours are basically the same as airgas but they are actually right down the road from me so probably more conveniant. This would have been great because i worked down in stratford, but now my office closed and im perm remote back at home in newtown

i also stocked up on ingredients but the one thing i couldnt was my co2. Ive been scrambling to find a place to get it and for me in newtown theres airgas in brookfield. Thier problem is they are only open from 8-4 m-f which is right smack in the middle of my workday and probably for others as...

Im a regular at maltose and was just there buying ingredients a couple weeks ago and talked to an unnamed employee about the closing. He had mentioned they were also losing the lease to veracious but not at the same time as the homebrew store and would be downsizing and selling remaining stock...

Ive been trying to get news on this too because im up for a resupply in the next week or so and my other option Epic brewing seems to have gone online only. I dont believe this to be true after what ive seen the last few days trying to find new sources for bulk grain. Either maltose really...

They do appear to offer it, you just have to select US in the region at the top left. Its awful pricey though for 5gal batches with a single vessel system. If you do really get into brewing like you think and like most of us here you'll be kicking yourself at being limited to 5 gals or having...

Dont be so sure about that. There is no shortcut for experience no matter how fancy the setup. It's going to take some time to learn your equipment, especially since its high end stuff. There is something to be said for starting basic besides it being cheap. With just a bucket, glass carboy and...

You really want to speed up brewing, do larger batches. The bigger you go the more time you save because you'll have to brew less often. I do 10gal batches and the extra time is minimal from a 5gal batch. This is even more true if you're doing extract. As far as the cleaning, yeah umm youre...

The one single thing i did that made the biggest effect on the quality of my final product was temperature control. If you want to control your ferment temps do it until primary fermentation has slowed or it's pointless. You really want to keep fermentation from getting too hot during the most...

He never posted what the recipe SG was supposed to be either. 1080 sounds high even for this beer clone and he could have added water in the fermenter to make up for some of the extra boil off. He also didnt mention anything about the grind. You could have started off on the wrong foot with a...

I just added seltzer to my home bar taps and would like to use it with syrups(hand pump style) to make soda. Ive found a few sources of gallon bottles and bag in box syrups but all of them are made with high fructose corn syrup. I then remembered my local brew store sells those 2oz bottles of...

Not sure what combo of search terms i finally did but i found a thread where someone else says his system is good at basically the same temps im seeing. He was using salt water though and doesnt mention exactly how his salt water cools the actual shanks though or top of tower though. I was...

So in my infinite wisdom i decided it would be a fun idea to free up the under bar beer fridge for bottles/cans and relocate my 2 kegs to a fridge behind the wall in the garage. I wanted to keep the existing arrangement of the tower on the bar that used lines running to the fridge as well. It...

Thats a great idea, thanks

Just looking for some advice on a pump i'd like to use for a CIP system. Its an old Ace float switch sump pump rated at 3600GPH and 1/2hp. I bought it years ago when an old house had some seasonal flooding issues and i've been dragging it around ever since. So i thought maybe it would work as a...