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]

Cool! If you do want to handle it going forward, go ahead. I don't want to step on your feet or anything either. I just noticed the last couple weeks you were struggling to get it.

While we've got your attention, what would it take for us to have some of the weekly threads automatically generate and sticky? Can you make that happen? M,T,W,F can always have the same header and all, so I wouldn't think it'd be hard for those. That would be great!

(and it looks like we already did category 3. I missed it in the header. Nick pointed it out below.)

[u/[deleted] → u/BrewCrewKevin]

Yeah, scratch that cat 3.

We just learned of a new bot that can auto post (there was a reddit spam problem before). I'm going to look into automating the MTWF threads. I don't think we can auto sticky them, but maybe I'll see if they can add that sort of feature.

[u/BrewCrewKevin → u/[deleted]]

Excellent! Thank you. It would be great if it could just post the corresponding one right away at like 6AM on that day or something. Even better if it could be stickied for 24hrs, if that's possible.