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Offline makemehoppy

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Re: the bare essentials
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2010, 06:51:06 am »
like a jerk, i didn't have a gravity sample thief, so i was sanitizing and using my auto-siphon to collect 9oz of green beer.  once i bought it, i never looked back!
I used to always use a thief and then one day I realized I could just fill a hydro sample tube with a couple pumps of the autosiphon before I connected the tubing. One less thing to sanitize now.
I still have my original autosiphon from the true brew kits I bought over 3 years ago, great tool

Offline roffenburger

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Re: the bare essentials
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2010, 12:02:57 pm »
I have an autosiphon, but when I need to take a gravity reading, I just sanitize my hose and start it by mouth.

I have become quite fond of my new stainless steel mash paddle (bro in law made it for me for Christmas), homemade temperature controller, and lollipop thermometer.
Travis R.

Offline euge

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Re: the bare essentials
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2010, 10:41:16 am »
what are some tools you cannot brew without and you are thankful the day you bought it.  mine would have to be my sanitizer injecter

For brewing as I do now, not as I began:

Natural Gas ring burners. Never ever ever run out of gas.
Appropriately sized brew kettle (80qt)
Wort chiller (self-built).
Accurate thermometer (super-fast Thermapen).

There are other important tools and equipment but none so much as the aforementioned.



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