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Thank you for your help! I really appreciate your response.

My tap water is not so good. It does not make good beer. I have a TDS meter, and it reads water from the tap as 565 ppm. That is really quite terrible. The water is loaded with bicarbonates and sodium, etc... It's really nasty stuff. To deal with this, I purchased a pretty cool counter-top RO...

Ordered a Stone IPA at a bar in town. The bartender poured it into my glass from a bottle, as hard as he could; almost foaming it onto the floor. As he was doing this... Bartender: "Tumble, tumble, tumble, tumble. When it tumbles in the glass - that's when you know it's a good IPA." Me...

The White Buffalo Foo Fighters (Wasting Light) Stone Sour to name a few...

Thanks, N_G. Then I'll be going with a valve of some sort; for the reasons you stated. However, I found those valves at two of the vendors you mentioned through Google fu before I came here (didn't see the BW one until your post though) -- I'm a bit weary, because construction information was...

Thank you, Gnome. I'll be batch sparging, so is there anything to gain from the adjustability offered by the valve, as opposed to the simple on/off function of a clamp?

I purchased a 52 qt Coleman Xtreme, for a simple MT build. I don't want to spend money on a stainless or even a brass ball valve. I try to be cheap where I can get away with it. I was going to build it pretty much like Denny's, but am having difficulty sourcing the inline nylon valve...

I didn't mean to abandon this thread. However, this will be my last post for "My first brew." I just want to close it out properly. It turned out alright! Tasty brew for sure. My brother helped me float the keg. I did a bit of reading prior to this first attempt, paid attention to detail, and...

Thanks guys. Irish, I don't have a LHBS - have to do all my gear shopping online. Johnson, I will go with the cane one size down from the 1/2".

I posted this in the beginner forum with no dice... Maybe I can get some help here... I tried to jam my racking cane into my cobra tap to fill some bottles Biermuncher style. There is no way that my racking cane will fit into the tap - no way. I have a 1/2" racking cane, iirc. Can you guys...

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I tried to jam my racking cane into my cobra tap to fill some bottles Biermuncher style. There is no way that my racking cane will fit into the tap - no way. I have a 1/2" racking cane, iirc. Can you guys point me in the right direction for the correct size racking cane for this procedure...

Okay, so a quick update... Starting gravity for this extract brew is 1.045. I didn't take an OG reading because all directions were followed. As we know, the OG given with the kit is usually dead on - if the liquid volume is good to go (with extract kits at least). I took a gravity reading...

---I should have included the description of the type of beer I'm fermenting. A description was entered, but it only appears to be visible on YouTube and doesn't appear here; where it really needs to be. I will copy and paste some of it: T-Can & Bearcat's Wheaten Beatdown: After everything I've...

Brew is still looking good. No signs of contamination. The fermentation has visibly stopped. We're going on a week now. I will probably press on for about another week until taking a few hydrometer readings. Enjoying some Karbach tonight. Cheers, gents.

Okay, so this brew has been fermenting for... coming up on a week. I'm feeling more relaxed now -- just letting it do its thing; hanging out in its 65-66 degree chamber. I will let it go for nearly another week in this carboy, before I begin taking readings. I'm aware that it isn't a...

Progress report for my fellow newbie brew dogs. The darn case on the camera loves to make some noise -- sorry 'bout that! Looking forward to "The Brew Strikes Back" and "Return of the Brew." Check ya later! CHEERS

Thank you, bobot.

Thanks, guys.