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I'm looking for a way of manually pumping air into a keg to be able to move liquid without using CO2. Example.. filled my corny with cleaning solution and want to run it through my beer lines and taps.. don't want to waste CO2 doing it! Anyone have a makeshift solution for it? I thought about...

I got a new SeriesX 4 tap kegerator and even at -5 it doesn't freeze water. It gets cold enough to drink beer, but temperature control is far from ideal and far from being cold enough. Kegerator is inside my living room at roughly 23C. Any way of fixing this?

Good tip, Swannie! Anything you learned that you could share?

Pics don't do justice :)

One at a time.. one at a time

When does the rego expires? 😂

Fermentation is still going strong at 11-12C and the beer is as clear as I've ever seen during fermentation!

I don't think the fermentation ever rose as much to the point it'd go through my blow-off before. To do that I'd need to have the fermenter full to the brim, right? I have one of those metallic sounding valves so I don't think it'd work neither.. will have to buy a similar setup to what you...

Let's see.... Might try washing and making a starter to guarantee i have enough 😬😬 Good news is the vast vast majority of the yuck has already settled. I'll let it ferment for some 2 weeks before cold crashing as cold as the fridge goes.... I reckon it'll be a good one 🙄 Happy to give some away...

Absolutely will keep it out of the keg! I'll give the fermenter a shake in a day or two to make sure everything settles as low as possible, but it's all in the bottom already. Question I have is about harvesting yeast from this batch.. it's the first time I bought an "expensive" yeast, so want...

Unfortunately there isn't a tap on the bottom and it's a floating dip tube... What's the issue with letting it all sit there in the bottom of the cone? If needed I can ferment at higher pressures and higher temperature to get it done quicker so there's less time in contact with that Honestly...

Let me play that back to you to see if I understood. 15 min or so to the end of boil I should add whirlfloc and turn whirlpool (through CF) on to sanitize it... When boil finishes I turn pump off and do a whirlpool with my paddle. After some 30 min the hot break should have settled and only now...

Pickup for the pump is at the bottom.. not super bottom, but at the bottom. What do you recommend then? Waiting more time for the chopped material to settle? Not use the hop spider? Lower PH? My mash pH was about 5.4, with my ****** reader. Cheers

Not forced. I left the sounding tight to pick up pressure and it's at 5psi or so now. I usually ferment at 10psi, I'll let this go to 30 or so to minimize craus (is that the word for the foam?) Because the fermenter is way too full 😬 Why wouldn't the hot/cold break form in the kettle? Don't...

Boiled for 90 minutes. Added hops in a spider at 60, 10 and 5. Whirlfloc went into the kettle around 15 to end. There was almost nothing left in the kettle when I transferred to the fermenter. It was cloudy and just a little bit at the bottom of the kettle. All those big blobs were formed only...

Yeah, wasn't anything left. I used the whirlfloc 15 min roughly to end of boil. Once boil ended i pumped through counterflow to chill it down to pitching temp. During counterflow it flowed back to the kettle through a whirlpool port. After it cooled down, i turned everything off and left the...

Alright... So I just pitched my starter about 30 min ago and the beer is completely coagulating.. i used one whirlfloc during boil but it didn't really have any trub after whirlpooling for some 30 min through the counterflow chiller. It seems like the whirlfloc only worked after transferring to...

I reckon it should work!

That's how my mini keg is set up and it works fairly well. Dispensing pressure above 8-10pai start foaming a bit, but it's manageable. The biggest issue is if, for w/e reason, the pickup line moves up inside the keg and you only dispense CO2 while the keg is full. If you have a FC tap, it should...

Went to this brewery today for lunch, in Gosford, and absolutely loved their lager. Exactly what I'm looking for for my house beer. Anyone's been there and could give some pointers in terms of recipe? Cheers