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Kegging and Bottling / Beer Line Cleaner

« on: October 30, 2010, 06:55:20 pm »

What do all of you use as beer-line cleaner on your kegging setups?  How often do you clean your lines and faucets?

I have been spraying a little star-san up into my forward-sealing faucets every month or so, but haven't done too much with the lines yet (they have each pushed about 2 full kegs, and it's taken a year to do it).

How often do they need to be flushed out?  Is star-san or PBW good on the lines, or should I break down and buy some actual BLC?

Thanks for the feedback.

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Questions about the forum? / RSS && Google Reader

« on: October 30, 2010, 06:35:30 pm »

Since Google reader only refreshes RSS feeds every hour or so, has anyone had trouble with the AHA forum's RSS feed?  I see that it only includes the 5 most recent posts, so if there are more than 5 posts in an hour, Google's RSS reader probably won't see them all.  Is there any way to get the default number of posts in the RSS feed raised from 5?

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Zymurgy / Re: 2011 Zymurgy topics

« on: October 30, 2010, 06:44:11 am »

I'd love to see a thorough discussion of electric brewing.  e.g. high-density elements vs low-density, RIMS vs HERMS, building electric tuns and kettles, etc.

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Zymurgy / Re: PDF of Zymurgy?

« on: October 30, 2010, 06:42:52 am »

Thrilled to hear it.  I'm hoping for sooner rather than later.

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Zymurgy / PDF of Zymurgy?

« on: October 24, 2010, 03:42:03 pm »

I asked this a while back on TechTalk, but with the new year rolling around, thought that I would ask it again:  Have there been any thoughts on delivering Zymurgy electronically to AHA members?  Personally speaking, I would LOVE a PDF version, as it would be easier to archive and search than a stack of magazines to manage.  Anyone else feel the same way?

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Equipment and Software / Re: Pumps

« on: February 19, 2010, 08:50:49 pm »

I've used the march-809.  It's flow rate is a little anemic, but it works.  I just purchased a Little-Giant 3-MD-HC, which is reported to have about twice the throughput as the 809.  It is also a centrifugal mag-drive pump, like the march, and comes with a Ryton head (similar to the March plastic one).