Category: Brewing Items

Deal on Kegs

Hey Mobsters and Friends!

Ran across this deal and wanted to share with everyone since I know that several of you are looking to get into kegging. Adventures in Homebrewing (love those guys) have “low profile” kegs for sale for $39 a keg. Four kegs will be $156 and shipping to Hixson was $17.74. That means you can get four kegs delivered for around $44 per keg. Not to shabby.

It looks like these are converted pin locks that have had the lid replaced to include a manual release valve. Site says they have been pressure tested and might have some residue in them.

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Cheers!
Andy

15 Gift Ideas for the Homebrewing Dad This Father’s Day

15 Gift Ideas for the Homebrewing Dad This Father’s Day

So my wife and kids were asking me what I wanted for Father’s Day. I decided to come up with a list for them. While making the list it dawned on me that there might be other mom’s and kids who are perplexed about what to get their homebrewing husband/father.  I put together this list of items I have asked for in the past or am asking for now.  This is not a comprehensive list and some of the items might not be relevant to your homebrewer, but it’s a start.

Images below are hyperlinks to applicable sites for the items.

  1. Brewer’s Whisk   Whisk
  2. Water Chemistry Kit   waterkit_gf
  3. Hop Scale   smallscale
  4. Kegs   img_0693_1 or  12510
  5. Keg Washer   Keg Washer3
  6. Programmable Temp Controller (for Fermentation Chamber)   itc-310t_-_main (1)
  7. Grain Mill   cereal_killer_grain_mill_full
  8. Fermenter   speidel
  9. Yeast Starter Kit   8869
  10. Beer Recipe Kits   free-shipping-recipes-may16   or   featured-cat-recipe
  11. Beer Filtration System   inline-beer-filtration-system-aih
  12. Beer Aeration System   aeration_system
  13. Kegging System   2013-03-10_06.45.23   or   1___ball_lock_keg_system_with_picnic_above_aih
  14. Refractometer   refractometer_with_gray_case
  15. Star San   img_0561

 

Keg Level Indicator

Wanted to share this with everyone as I was kind of blown away by it.  I was shopping on the Great Fermentations website the other day and came across this gem.  It uses a magnetized ball (that should be sanitized before putting into keg) to show how much beer you have left in your keg.  What a novel idea!!

The $20 price tag made me cringe a little, but then I saw the video.  Pretty cool concept.  Don’t know that I will be rushing to purchase, but maybe if I win a Great Fermentations gift card at Fugetaboutit again this year….I might just pick one up.

Ball and Keg Level Indicator

Video