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    Ball Lock fittings for non-pressure transfers?

    Cheers Yuz, I hope it helps you with ideas. I haven’t had to buy yeast for the last 18 months using this method. And it’s clean, virtually no spillage. It’s also just set and forget until fermenter is empty or filter needs changing. When I dry hop with pellets I go through 3 or 4 filters but if...
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    Learning

    Yes, overcarbed will always result in flat beer as the CO2 rushes out and gives more head than beer. The ideal sound when cracking a fresh bottle should be just a small fshhh sound with no frothing in the bottle. I use Gyle to carbonate my bottled beer, Beer Smith has a link to a useful self...
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    Ball Lock fittings for non-pressure transfers?

    Forgot to mention, I use a small peristaltic pump to remove the semi solid plug from the fermenter discharge port and also harvest my yeast using the peristaltic pump. This gives a very controlled discharge until beer is starting to flow.
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    Ball Lock fittings for non-pressure transfers?

    Whoops, wrong photo. That is cleaning fermenter and kegs
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    Ball Lock fittings for non-pressure transfers?

    I use a small beer pump to transfer from my fermenter to my kegs, I fill one keg with CO2 first and then hook my pump and other kegs up to this keg in line. I then purge all air from the 3 other kegs and the pump. I pump the beer through a 1 micron filter and into the first keg through the out...
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    Getting the Numbers right.

    Not sure if this is the right topic, but after the grain bill, the important thing for me is to hit my numbers right regardless of mash or boil time. A brew day could be 6 hours or 12 relative to the grain and environment.
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