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I'm about to test drive my Bowie Bottle filler and just cleaned, sanitized, and stuck some bottles in the freezer. Back when I bottled I used either iodophor with a bottle tree (what a pita) or the dishwasher heat method. I've never used Starsan to sanitize bottles and no matter how hard I try...

After feeling like I was wasting C02 I ordered a kegconnection gravity fed cleaning system. Now that I'm looking at it I'm not sure it will work as is for my ball lock system. I thought the "ball lifter" tool would be used to open up the ball lock qd fittimg and between gravity/squeezing the...

I just brewed my first batch using my heatstick and new mash tun in order to get full 5gal stovetop batches. Everything went well and two hours ago I kegged an IPA and pitched this batch on the yeast cake and stuck it in my fermentation box. I'm sitting here messing around and I'm becoming...

I decided to go very simple with my build mainly because it was the best match for my biulding skills. :) After some debate I decided to resist the urge to go bigger because we live in an apartment right now and might be in apartments for a while. Moving as well as storing more gear is always...

I'm building a heatstick and don't know jack about electricity. I've been reading all the threads and instructions.. I see early on a lot of fear over the danger of heatsticks but some of these threads go back years. I'm guessing by now there are thousands of heatsticks a brewin' and I...

I am a terible wood worker but decided to try a super simple keezer build. Sure enough I hit a snag right away. I was hoping I'd be lucky and the hinges would line up where I could use the existing holes in the freezer or I'd wind up in the wood. Of course I wound up right between and...

I'm wanting to buy a new kettle and the B3 looks like a good choice for my needs. Only I think the one I want is the one not listed in between the 8gal and the 15gal... What's with 8 gal but no 10 gal? :confused: I suppose I can continue to use Fermcap like I'm doing for 4 gal batches...

I tried some searches but found nothing.. I'm ready to move to kegging but don't have any fridge to convert or any way to keep a keg cold right now. Is there any way one keg would just fit in my kitchen fridge and I could cram the food all around it? I can't really remember how big they are...

I was looking at a few Son of instructions and I don't understand the baffles or how the flow works. What would happen if I built a simple box with something like a ledge on top for ice blocks? Like an old school pre electricity "ice box" concept. Would cold from the ice blocks migrate "down"...

I'm making 3 gal batches and scaling down recipes that already have small additions is a problem because I'd have to buy all my grains separate and then wind up with many tiny bits of things left over. So I'm wondering if there is anything glaringly wrong with a malt bill something like this...

I'm starting the boil of the first batch on my new system. The idea here is to learn how to make ~3 gal batches in an apartment setting. I intended to make an American wheat-ish style but I might have gone off a bit. Mashed in with 4 gallons of water into 10#'s of grain. Added 1 gal of...

Putting together my new (to me) Corona mill I've assembled it as logically as I can figure with no instructions. And I've got these few bits left over. Can somebody tell me where the ball bearing and stuff goes?

I tried a bunch of searches but could not find out anything about this specific brand of Corona style mill. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=corona+mill&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=13152653309666593481&sa=X&ei=tMlRTsLsMMrIgQf3pqSEBw&ved=0CEYQ8wIwAQ...

I've got a 5 gallon kettle on order thinking I will brew 3 gallon batches (apartment living). :( Only now have I started thinking that my starting volume will be more than 3 gal and leaving space for the boil....maybe I should be thinking about 2.5 gallon batches. Can somebody that...