Recent content by opqdan

I'd keep using it until it becomes an issue. It's not like you're going to get abiogenesis of bacteria/wild yeasts in the scratches, bad bugs would need to be introduced and if the carboy is stored dry, and properly sanitized before use, then those cracks are a pretty inhospitable...

How do you keep the flow into the keg? I don't see anywhere for the air/CO2 in the keg to be released while filling.

You could use a 1/2" FPT to temperature probe compression fitting and a Tee to add a thermapen or other digital probe thermometer inline on the whirlpool port. I use one of these https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/pcomp1.htm to measure temp on the output of my plate chiller, so you could do...

How is the rotating racking arm on this thing? Lifesaver or just an extra piece to have? Does anybody actually rotate it to avoid the yeast/trub? My concern is that you cannot see the height of the trub in the steel, so you don't know where to rotate to (unless you just watch the tube for...

I've got a semi-Holiday brew just about to go into secondary and I wanted to get some opinions about how to get the aroma and flavor of cinnamon without ending up tasting like RedHots or Fireball whisky. For background, this is a rye heavy saison with wyeast 3711. I'm going to flavor it with...

It sounds like you want some form of liquid quick disconnect on the collar, allowing you to remove the lines if needed? While this is specified for gas, you can probably find something similar (or just use it for liquid)...

A lot of bad information here. As some others have said, Nitrogen will not go into the beer at any appreciable amount, it is only used to push the beer through the tap. The tap itself has a restrictor disk, if you tried to serve with just CO2 at standard carbonating pressure (say 8 psi for a...

As you aren;t hearing the relay click, I doubt your wiring is the culprit. Most likely the "problem" is the compressor delay. An STC-1000 will only turn on the cool side after the compressor delay (F3 I think?) passes. If this value is set to 10 minutes (for example), then the cooling...

Better Bottles are definitely rigid enough to use a carboy handle on the neck. In fact, the manufacturer offers 2 kinds: http://www.better-bottle.com/products_master.html I definitely agree with other posters that they do deform when lifting, so be careful to not suck airlock liquid back...

I have a 3 tap kegerator that I'd like to re-plumb the gas lines. I dispess each keg with (possibly) different pressures. Currently I have a primary regulator with a wye fitting, one side goes to soda (30 psi) and the other goes to a set of secondary regulators that step down the pressure...

I only used the hardware ideas, I haven't used the actual KegBot software. The swissflow only required a single pin for IO (the other two are 5V and GND), but due to the pulsing nature I've had to hook it up as an interrupt, which the Arduino has only 2 of though it looks like newer versions...

I have 3x SwissFlow sf800 http://www.swissflow.com/sf800.html I got the model idea from KegBot a number of years ago. The kegbot website says that it is food safe, though the SwissFlow website doesn't say that it is. I'm not convinced that it is, but I'm also not too concerned. Only a...

Natural gas still produces dangerous gasses (chiefly CO). Residential stoves and ovens burn very cleanly, and normal air infiltration in the house can take care of it, but items designed to burn more gas will produce more hazardous byproducts. NG furnaces, water heaters, and fire places all...

The flow sensors I have pulse 6000 times per liter. I found that they stayed incredibly accurate through the pouring of a full keg. I poured nearly a full keg of 12oz beakers, and the reported numbers were all accurate to a few tenths of an ounce (I'll see if can dig up my dataset). Remember...

Doh! I missed where he said he was an Aussie.