Thank you for the link and the suggestion. Please tell us a little more about how you use this fan. Where is it placed? Do you simply use it to circulate air inside? Or are you using it as an exhaust fan? Got a jpg image showing it in action?

Water and CO2 does make carbonic acid. That might be the cause of the rust. In my keezer the rust got started when I kept an open 10 gal. container of water to use as a poor man’s “glycol” chiller for use with a Temp Twister for fermentation in an external fermentation chamber. Lesson learned...

This is my DIY dehumidifier. It sits inside the box, on the hump over the compressor.

Like others, I have a chest freezer that I use for cold storage of my beer in cornie kegs. I don't have a tower or fancy faucet arrangement. I just use hoses with cobra taps. I use an external temperature controller, set at 39 degrees. My box is plagued with condensation inside, to the point...

What if you replaced the Minute Rice with rice solids if you were looking for a way to boost the gravity without more pilsner malt?

More like competing priorities. It wasn’t until after my kids were out of the house that I could take up the hobby. But the point made about the time commitment required for cleaning and maintenance is spot on. If you don’t like cleaning up, then home brewing may not be for you. Non brewers...

As others have said, likely an empty tank. That's why I own several tanks; because I periodically managed to let one leak out. Usually by leaving the valve open overnight. It is particularly annoying when it is the 20# tank that winds up empty. That's an expensive reminder to close the damned...

I've been homebrewing for more than 20 years. At first, I justified the investment in equipment by saying that the beers I made were less expensive than commercial beers. Now I'm retired with enough time to brew and obsess about the next brew. I still think my beers cost less than commercial...

Nice photo. Thanks for helping me think of alternatives. That's a very happy fermentation in your photo!

I use a Speidel 30L plastic fermenter. I use the MoreBeer thermowell on the top rather than the large Speidel airlock. That adapter has a hole that accepts a grommet for use with the common 3/8" plastic airlock. This allows me to monitor the fermentation temperature with my Ranco ETC and a...

I reread my post above and realized that my setup doesn’t use a regulator on the CO2 tank. The hose connects directly to the flange on the tank valve and goes to the Sodastream station. So I’m carbonating with gas at tank pressure, not reduced with a regulator. The hose is a heavy, braided one...

Another option to consider, as noted above, is to skip using the too small Sodastream bottles, and just use a larger CO2 tank with a hose from the regulator to the Sodastream station. Such hoses are readily available on internet sales sites. I use a 10# tank and it lasts more than a year. You...

It would be nice to be able to more accurately predict the IBUs in a brew session when using hops that have been stored for a while.