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- Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Ball Valves for Recirculation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1952
Re: Ball Valves for Recirculation
When you're reducing the flow of a magnetic pump it's better to do it on the output rather than the input. And don't call me Shirley.
- Sat Jan 21, 2017 3:21 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Connectors - Cam & Groove, Tri Clamp or other?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8518
Re: Connectors - Cam & Groove, Tri Clamp or other?
When it comes to the clean-up, do you have to remove the hoses from the camlock barbs and clean underneath? ie, does wort seep in between them? Or is that the sort of thing you do occasionally/never?
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8552
Re: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
Just a quick note, converted 3 cornies and 5 king kegs to the cask widge float system and all work very well, i just use the tube i listed off ebay (thin wall so it bends easy) and have had no issues with the floats not floating at all. Bright beer dispense right from the start to the bottom of the...
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:43 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8552
Re: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
fwiw this aussie offering a fermentor/keg employs what looks like the ss float from a dc voltage float switch as a simple keg float, with silicone tube shoved through its centre cavity. http://www.oxebar.com.au/fermentasaurus/ Quite by chance I have one of those in my spares box (an idle, late-nigh...
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 9:35 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Any one-gallon brewers here?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2755
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 4:49 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8552
Re: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
If you get the process right you should end up with clear beer. That's very easy to write. But since I have no means to cold crash, and since I use a whole variety of yeast each with its different charactersistics, getting the exact amount of yeast in the racked beer -- not too much and not too lit...
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 2:24 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8552
Re: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
Ha. Actually, it was reading that thread last week about pressurized, oxygen-free transfers that made me to decide to stick with natural carbonation.orlando wrote:Why don't you just put clear beer into the corny in the first place?
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:51 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: which one
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2188
Re: which one
Have a look in the 'braumeister...' forum, there's loads of discussion there.
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:50 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8552
Re: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
Thanks, Fil. The silicon tube is smooth, no ribs. But I did refit it in accordance with its natural curve, and this time the float more or less went down with the water level. But now and then it looked like I'd be getting a glassful of CO2 rather than beer, and it stopped with a good few pints to go.
- Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:42 am
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Any one-gallon brewers here?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2755
Re: Any one-gallon brewers here?
Thanks for the replies. All very useful. I have sunce moved up to 10l batches now but I am still using the BIAB with no chill combination. Yeah, I'm wondering if 2-gallon batches would be the way to go. Then I could get some of those dinky little 9l cornies. Decisions, decisions. :? i have also drun...
- Tue Jan 17, 2017 7:33 pm
- Forum: Grain Brewing
- Topic: Any one-gallon brewers here?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2755
Any one-gallon brewers here?
My main brewery is a five-gallon job but I'd also like to be able to do smaller batches, just enough to fill a mini-keg or a few bottles. Does anyone here brew in these quantities, and if so what are the ins and outs of it? I tried it once and found it a real faff, but that's probably because I was ...
- Tue Jan 17, 2017 6:33 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8552
Re: Cornie conversion with cask widge float
Okay, am I missing something? I just bought a red cask widge and fitted it in my cornie, but according to my experiments with water there's no way this is going to work. The rigidity of the silicon tube keeps the float wedged firmly against the far side of the keg, and it doesn't move at all with th...
- Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:11 pm
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: infrared thermometer lidl 19/1/17
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1465
Re: infrared thermometer lidl 19/1/17
I bought one to test my central heating system and must admit I agree with Ciderhead. Over a short stretch of pipework it would give readings that varied by over 10C, depending on the exact texture/colour of the surface of the pipe. Not much use.
- Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:08 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Sodastream CO2 setup for pressurised crash chilling
- Replies: 92
- Views: 14431
Re: Sodastream CO2 setup for pressurised crash chilling
Thanks for the regulator write-up, Matt. Mine's in the post.
- Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:39 am
- Forum: Brewing Equipment
- Topic: Sodastream CO2 setup for pressurised crash chilling
- Replies: 92
- Views: 14431
Re: Sodastream CO2 setup for pressurised crash chilling
Where did you get that regulator if you don't mind me asking? Here. I contacted the seller and got some money off because I didn't need the disconnect (am getting hoses and clips with it). Thinking about it, the cost works out roughly the same as reg + SS adapter + fittings & low pressure gauge, an...