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Never done it so just a guess. I would suspect that cider is more like water then beer. That said you could try beer pressure and see if it has enough fizz for you. If you feel you need more fizz then you will need more pressure and longer serving line to balance it out. My soda line is...

Efficiency goes down when gravity goes up for any system. Sparging can have advantages. It can also have disadvantages if you end up with extra wort and have to boil longer to concentrate the sugars. If I were going to BIAB a big beer I would work out the recipe with extra grain and use 2...

That just shows the problem with the metric system. Mention gallons to you guys and your brain shuts down.

Opera or FF?

I used Opera many years ago and loved it. Then they did an upgrade and it got fat and slow. That is when I converted to FF. Still using 2.0 as I did not care for their brilliant idea of mixing up the history and bookmarks. I am sure I am stuck with 2.0 as I am still using Win98SE. Someday I...

There are a few people doing concentrated BIAB brews on the stove. This system may be something you can use with your ice system. BIAB does not require a sparge step. I have brewed up to 1.070 beers with BIAB so it should work for a high gravity wort you plan on diluting. You could also look...

I think there is a bit more to it then a room full of bubbling beakers of yeast. The cost to set up a lab just for the testing would likely get rewarded by doing something different then selling yeast to home brewers. Packaging would be a pain to set up as each run would have to be large...

Use a knife to cut the rubber back. I have never seen the problem you are having. It could be that you will find the dip tube and o-rings missing on that side. If you can not cut away the rubber, find someone that works on cars and see if they have 12 point deep sockets. A socket may work...

Wheat beers can have very active fermentation. Do at least one of the following. Keep an eye on it, use a blow off tube, make sure you have enough head space in your fermentor, put the fermentor someplace it will not make a mess if it foams over. Air locks can get plugged by the foam and...

I had a Ginger beer a few years ago that had so much ginger in it that it was like eating raw or candied ginger. He must have grated the ginger as it was floating in the beer when I poured it out of the bottle. I will see if I can get contact info for him and get the recipe. Not sure how well...

Now lets work on your other observation. Unless you are drinking so much that you are fall down drunk you should not be getting hangovers. You may be susceptible to them though. The only time I get hangovers from home brew is when a brewer does not monitor their fermentation and gets nasty...

I have read a bit about this. It is not the hops that they like, it is the wort on the hops. Never have seen anything about dogs eating hops off the vine. Live next to one of the big hop producing areas in the USA. Not to say some dog will not eat hops off the vine or even go so far as to...

I am sorry, it is rocket science and if I tell you, well you know the story. You hook keg 2 to keg one. Keg 2 “out” to keg 1 “in”. Gas gets hooked to the “in” of keg 2. Beer line gets hooked to the “out” of keg 1. I have read people asking if it takes more gas. Think about it for a while...

Got to remember these kegs were not made for dispensing home brew. They were made for soda pop. They way they are designed to work is to use more then one keg in a chain. The last keg on the chain is the one that gets replaced the most. The more soda that is expected to be sold, the more...

Answer both at once. Head space in percentage. I bet if you are a math whiz and calculate out the headspace, O2 consumed and replaced, and other factors you would find that bottles require more CO2. As to why purge and seal the lid? Why not. Not all kegs are in great shape. The chance of...

I think we need a new term. Spiab I am a traditional Biaber and do not get why some think they should sparge. Sure if you are doing the stovetop with a small pot and need to get extra wort to fill that small pot after pulling the bag. For the cost of an urn you can get a nice burner and a...

Depends on the beer. A month would not be too long if it is not hot.

Well my first guess is something wrong with the post or the connectors. I would let the gas out of the keg and try the connector with no hose on it. With venting the gas you will still get some beer out from the dissolved CO2 but not squirt it across the yard. If you get gas work your way...

Just thought I would post some observations from the USA. We heard about the floods on the news and it showed up on my Yahoo news page for a day or 2. Then the news about the mud in South America. No more news about you but a few updates on the slides. The big difference is you are dealing...

I was beginning to think.