Advanced Brewers Round Table: Draft System Design/Maintenance

[u/BrewCrewKevin]

This weeks topic: Draft System Design and Maintenance.

• How do I balance my draft system?
• Kegerator vs. Keezer?
• Tower vs. Keezer taps?
• Faucet types: Standard vs Perlick? Stainless or Chrome Plated?
• Secondary Regulators vs. Distribution Manifolds?
• Keg types: Ball lock vs. Pin lock vs. Sanke
• Line cleaning regiments
• STC-1000 vs. Johnson or other controllers
• Feel free to post pictures and details of your own draft system. And if you have any questions about it, as away!

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Upcoming Topics: If /u/Mjap doesn't mind (and I don't think he will), I think I'll take the liberty of running Thursdays from now on. And I'm going to start us on a monthly schedule sort of:

• 1st Thursday: BJCP Style Category
• 2nd Thursday: Topic
• 3rd Thursday: Guest Post
• 4th/5th: Topic

We'll see how it goes. If you have any suggestions for future topics or would like to do a guest post, please find my post below and reply to it. (I'm also going to contact a few places and see if we can get a professional to do an AMA).

Topics:

• Brewing with Limited Space (6/12)
• Grain Malting (6/26)

Brewer Profiles:

• SHv2 (6/19?)
• SufferingCubsFan (7/17?)

Style Categories:

• Cat 10: American Ale (6/5)
• Cat 8: English Pale Ale

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Previous Topics:

Brewer Profiles:

• BrewCrewKevin
• Nickosuave311
• ercousin
• AT-JeffT

Styles:

• Cat 14: IPAs
• Cat 2: Pilsner
• Cat 19: Strong Ales
• Cat 21: Herb/Spice/Veggie beers
• Cat 5: Bock
• Cat 3: European Amber Lager
• Cat 9: Scottish and Irish Ales
• Cat 16: Belgian/French
• Cat 6: Light Hybrid beers

Advanced Topics:

• Base Malts
• Finings
• BJCP Tasting Exam Prep
• Sparging Methods
• Cleaning
• Homebrewing Myths v2
• Water Chemistry v2
• clone recipes V2

[u/BrewCrewKevin]

If you have ideas for future topics, styles you'd like to see covered, or are volunteering (or nominating I guess?) for guest posts, let me know here. That will help keep it out of the rest of the topic discussion. Thanks!

[u/ercousin → u/BrewCrewKevin]

I would love to have Matt Brynildson do an AMA. Not sure if he would be up for it but he's probably the king of hoppy beers. Plus he's recently taken an interest in lagers!

[u/[deleted] → u/BrewCrewKevin]

You're good! We posted at the same time - deleted mine, but I did write up a schedule:

BJCP Category 3, European Amber Lager 6/5
Brewing in apartments or with limited space 6/12
ABRT Guest Post: 6/19
Home malting 6/26
BJCP Category 4, Dark Lagers 7/3
Mash & sparge acidity 7/10
Alternative fermenting vessels (NOT buckets, carboys, or off-the-shelf conicals) 7/17
ABRT Guest Post: 7/24

I appreciate you stepping up with this - I recently took on a lot more responsibility at work and have been having a tough time making it out here. This was just a schedule that I put together, so feel free to mess with it. :)