Recent content by trogdor447

This is always a fun time of year for hops. Especially when a guy down the road tells you he doesn't have time to harvest his hops and come get them unfortunately a good bit were past their prime. This is a variety of cascade centennial and something else. Got around 5 lbs of hops total. The...

The only thing I would be concerned with running that much volume mostly would be the handle getting it out. you have to imagine that there is an excessive amount of weight with grains + water until it begins to drain out. All that aside I do not see much else that could pose problematic other...

I can't agree enough with this. It saves.me so much time. Let alone cleaning up as I switch between stages of brewing. I did find you kinda need a hop bag / spider if using a fair amount of hops. Regardless I got a new bag and ready to go. 2nd batch done in a month and starting the 3rd batch...

From experience.. you're going to hold it up and let some of the liquid drain out or it makes one hell of a mess if there is enough pressure. That being said, there is no top heavy issues you're going to run into with this. Make sure its on a stable surface though. I wish the legs were up a half...

+ 5 gallons porter 733

I called them in advance and asked if everything was in stock they said yes. was about a 2 week lag time for the order. It was placed on 12/31 and shipped 1/20. Mine is the 10.5 but I imagine its all pretty relative to the same timeframe.

That's a good temporary getup for sure. I'm looking to add a miller sparge tank etc etc

Nahhh I'm not that fortunate! My fermenter is inside. My garage is a detached garage. Although it is insulated, its only r11 I put in for 'comfort' while working outside in hot/cold. Although my keezer is in the garage and I could use it for fermenting. But not really ideal. I do like the flat...

538 + 5g cream ale = 543

LOL I can picture myself doing exactly this. But I'd have to imagine.. if this bad boy is full of boiling / near boiling hot water and one of those handles happens to give way... you got a real mess + burn situation.

Brew DAY! now that all is settled / rolled out most of the dent got all that cleaned up. Beer kits are in, and we have a cream ale started, so far this is actually way more convenient than I could of ever imagined. Don't mind the extension cord, its on GFI and I'm home to babysit. The cord on...

So I had the pump kit with mine. Buy the new design doesn't have anything on the side really. The plastic on as well. Everything didn't really move around internal. Also had the chiller inside with another ring of cardboard. The top now has a swing handle as well so less things moving. Came with...

So it was packed amazing. They had a box in a box with styrofoam layer in between. This clearly was pre going into the box

I agree entirely.. many different forms of customer service myself. Never was looking to blast them. More or less heads up for future qc. Small dents/dings are whatever... I can see how some would be concerned. But it's a 3 foot tall rolled sheet metal. This was on the bottom collar which houses...

Whelp got my unit in at the end of last week. I was not too thrilled to see a dent in it. I'd have to assume someone accidentally got the bottom w/ a steal toe boot(this wasn't just tiny dings that are inevitable in rolled sheet metal). Fortunately it missed the electronics and it was able to be...