Brewer’s Hardware has developed hardware to convert Sanke Kegs into full featured fermenters. They feature all stainless construction and are designed to fit american style sankey kegs.
Need a way to distinguish between your hot and cold side gaskets? Sour and funky beers? Now offering red, green, blue, and white color coded gaskets for your brewery! Gaskets are one of the highest potential sources for contamination and proper use and replacement is essential. Color-coded gaskets can help distinguish between high and low risk areas.
EPDM brewery gaskets have a narrower temperature range than silicone (-30ºF to 300ºF) but stand up to stronger acids and caustics than silicone making them more desirable in commercial applications and excellent for home brewery applications. EPDM brewery gaskets are relatively soft, easy to seal and probably the best all around choice for any application that doesn’t need to live close to a flame source.
Tri Clover Compatible Color-Coded EPDM Gaskets
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Valuebrew carries two color schemes to color keg posts. Doing this allows you to quickly identify keg posts. Gray and Black match standard keg QD colors. Blue and Green are meant to be remembered by “Blue for Beer” and “Green for Gas”. All options are made from FDA rated silicone. Since they work equally well on gas and liquid posts you can also mix and match to come up with your own color coding standard.
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This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Brad Probert. Brad is an engineer, expert homebrewer and experienced reviewer. Grab a link to Brad’s website at the end of this review.
Dry hops. Homebrewers debate their favorite dry hop, how to calculate their IBU contribution, and when is the best time to add dry hops. While many love them, the technical challenge of adding them “right” is a hefty one. Whether you’ve heard of hop creep, or tasted an oxidized IPA, you are interested in minimizing the introduction of oxygen to your beer when you add dry hops.
Dry Hopper Assembly
If you add oxygen to your beer at the tail end of fermentation, you can spur your yeast on to keep going. When they would otherwise be content to be finished, the addition of oxygen gets them going, converting more sugars. The result is a lower FG, and a highly attenuated beer. And if you introduce oxygen after the yeast have officially called it quits, instead of the yeast using it up in fermentation, the oxygen is available to make oxidation compounds in your beer. These oxidation compounds are the things you taste in stale beer, and I’ve personally battled with harsh hop bitterness in IPAs when I got sloppy with oxygen intake on a finished beer.
Bottom Valve and Mounting Flange
Another dry hopping challenge is how to add the hops to a beer you’re fermenting under pressure. If you’ve gone through the work to finish up fermentation with your beer under pressure, you don’t want to simply vent the pressure to add dry hops. And if you’ve ever watched pressurized beer in a fermentor drop to 0 pressure, you know the whole thing becomes a churned-up mess- totally undoing all the work of precipitating trub and yeast.
Related: Fermenting Under Pressure
Sight Glass Hop Chamber
Brewers Hardware came out with the Dry Hopper to specifically deal with these challenges. The Dry Hopper attaches to a Tri Clover flange on your lid. There are two sizes- one for a 1.5” TC port, and one for 3” TC port. Both designs contain the same 3 elements- a valve at the bottom that mates to the lid of your fermentor, a tube in the middle to hold the hops, and a fixture on top with a gas ball lock port and a PRV valve. The 3” TC version is larger and holds more dry hops (14 oz) than the 1.5” TC version (4 oz).
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Brewers Hardware’s Clearance Page features an ever-changing selection of discounted homebrew gear and hardware. Quantities can be limited. If you see something you like, I’d suggest placing your order sooner rather than later.
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability. pst:bhclearance
This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Brad Probert. Brad is an engineer, expert homebrewer and experienced reviewer. Grab a link to Brad’s website at the end of this review.
Dry hops. Homebrewers debate their favorite dry hop, how to calculate their IBU contribution, and when is the best time to add dry hops. While many love them, the technical challenge of adding them “right” is a hefty one. Whether you’ve heard of hop creep, or tasted an oxidized IPA, you are interested in minimizing the introduction of oxygen to your beer when you add dry hops.
Dry Hopper Assembly
If you add oxygen to your beer at the tail end of fermentation, you can spur your yeast on to keep going. When they would otherwise be content to be finished, the addition of oxygen gets them going, converting more sugars. The result is a lower FG, and a highly attenuated beer. And if you introduce oxygen after the yeast have officially called it quits, instead of the yeast using it up in fermentation, the oxygen is available to make oxidation compounds in your beer. These oxidation compounds are the things you taste in stale beer, and I’ve personally battled with harsh hop bitterness in IPAs when I got sloppy with oxygen intake on a finished beer.
Bottom Valve and Mounting Flange
Another dry hopping challenge is how to add the hops to a beer you’re fermenting under pressure. If you’ve gone through the work to finish up fermentation with your beer under pressure, you don’t want to simply vent the pressure to add dry hops. And if you’ve ever watched pressurized beer in a fermentor drop to 0 pressure, you know the whole thing becomes a churned-up mess- totally undoing all the work of precipitating trub and yeast.
Related: Fermenting Under Pressure
Sight Glass Hop Chamber
Brewers Hardware came out with the Dry Hopper to specifically deal with these challenges. The Dry Hopper attaches to a Tri Clover flange on your lid. There are two sizes- one for a 1.5” TC port, and one for 3” TC port. Both designs contain the same 3 elements- a valve at the bottom that mates to the lid of your fermentor, a tube in the middle to hold the hops, and a fixture on top with a gas ball lock port and a PRV valve. The 3” TC version is larger and holds more dry hops (14 oz) than the 1.5” TC version (4 oz).
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Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
Also: Brewers Hardware Clearance
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Brad Probert. Brad is an engineer, expert homebrewer and experienced reviewer. Grab a link to Brad’s website at the end of this review.
There are different types of valves, suited for different purposes. On a fermentor, it is useful to have a valve that has the ability to pull small samples for gravity readings or taste samples, but also able to flow well when it comes time for transfer to a keg. The sample port valve provides fine adjustment to flow rate, allowing you to vary between a slow trickle for pulling a sample or a higher flow rate for gravity transfer to fill a keg.
Valve Handle with 2 O-rings and Silicone Seat
The sample port valve has a fine pitch thread to allow for small adjustments to the opening of the valve. With the Brewers Hardware sample port valve, you can feel while turning the knob that the threads and the stem of the valve are machined to tolerances for a precise fit and without slop or wobble. The valve stem has 2 O-rings to keep beer from sneaking out or air sneaking in. And the tip of the valve has a silicone bumper that gets compressed onto a seat for a secure fit to prevent leaks when closed. Silicone is non-porous, making it easy to clean and not harbor stow-aways from one ferment to another. And its elasticity allows it to conform to the valve shape for a good seal, yet spring back so it can be used over and over again to seal and unseal.
The overall quality of the valve from Brewers Hardware was top-notch. The surfaces were smooth-polished stainless steel, and the ridges on the adjustment knob were cleanly machined for grip with no sharp edges. Turning the adjustment knob, it felt precise with no slop or wobble, with a tight seal. It’s difficult to give justice to the fit & finish of the part with just words or a couple pictures, but it really stands out.
This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Brad Probert. Brad is an engineer, expert homebrewer and experienced reviewer. Grab a link to Brad’s website at the end of this review.
Up until now, I’ve known of two types of ball valves- 2-piece and 3-piece. The key difference between them being that the 3-piece can be disassembled for full cleaning. When I first started buying gear, I figured I’d go for the 3-piece because the idea of being able to take it apart and clean it sounded like something I should probably do. After seeing the complications of needing to use 2 wrenches at a time, while holding the body of the valve stable, I quickly concluded my 3-piece valves would never experience the joy of a ‘deep cleaning’.
This review is by Homebrew Finds Contributor Brad Probert. Brad is an engineer, expert homebrewer and experienced reviewer. Grab a link to Brad’s website at the end of this review.
A large sight glass on a brew rig set-up can legitimately be classified as a luxury. There are various ways to assess your wort clarity during your brew session. During recirculation of the mash, or during vourlaf, you want to know when your wort is running clear and free of grain debris. Connect a sight glass into your recirculation loop and you can easily see the wort clarity without having to look for grain bits in a recirculation spray. It’s just right there in plain view.
Sight Glass showing cloudy wort during recirculation
Sight Glass showing clear wort during recirculation
Brew Hardware has struggled to keep up with demand on their recently announce oxygen free dry hoppers.
As of this posting, the 3″ version is available for pre-order with estimated March shipment. Check product pages for current availability.
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
Brew Hardware has struggled to keep up with demand on their recently announce oxygen free dry hoppers.
As of this posting, the 3″ version is available for pre-order with estimated March shipment. Check product pages for current availability.
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
The Dry Hopper – 3″ Tri Clover Compatible
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The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
The Dry Hopper – 3″ Tri Clover Compatible
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
The Dry Hopper – 3″ Tri Clover Compatible
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
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It’s finally here. After months of R&D, we feel we have the best no oxygen dry hopper on the market. Introducing The Dry Hopper from Brewers Hardware.
Dry hop without introducing oxygen into your fermentor? √
Dry hop while fermenting under pressure? √
This dry hopper allows you to dry hop or add any additions to your beer without introducing oxygen and oxidizing the beer. It also allows you to make additions to your beer fermenting under pressure without having to release the pressure. This helps stabilize your fermentation schedule resulting in better repeatability with batches, healthier fermentation, and less oxidation.
This dry hopper works by containing the addition inside of a sight glass and purging out the oxygen before dosing. By equalizing the pressure inside the sight glass and fermenter, you can add anything to your beer without degassing or depressurizing.
Specifications:
Weight: 8 lbs
Height: 12.5″ (Around 13″ with a gas QD connected)
Pellet Hops Capacity: Sight Glass Version – 4 ounces, Stainless Tube Version – 3.5 ounces
Pressure Rating: 15 PSI
With the included prv and corny gas post, you will be able to completely purge the chamber before dry hopping.
We know a lot of people have a 2″ TC port with fermentors so we added a 2″ x 1.5″ TC Cap Reducer with an extra 1.5″ clamp and gasket as an optional extra to make the dry hopper compatible. The dry hopper is pretty tall at 11.25″ so you may have trouble using it if your fermentor is inside of a refrigerator or tight place.
For instructions on how to set up and use the dry hopper for both non-pressurized and pressurized fermentation, check out our PDF instructions in the link above.
WARNING: Please be careful when using the dry hopper especially if fermenting under pressure. Removing the TC clamp holding onto the sight glass without pulling the PRV first can cause the sight glass to jump up as the pressure is vented out the bottom and cause damage to the tank or injury.
The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
Price, promotions and availability can change quickly. Check the product page for current price, description and availability.
The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
More InfoFrom the product description, check product page for current description, price and availability:
It’s finally here. After months of R&D, we feel we have the best no oxygen dry hopper on the market. Introducing The Dry Hopper from Brewers Hardware.
Dry hop without introducing oxygen into your fermentor? √
Dry hop while fermenting under pressure? √
This dry hopper allows you to dry hop or add any additions to your beer without introducing oxygen and oxidizing the beer. It also allows you to make additions to your beer fermenting under pressure without having to release the pressure. This helps stabilize your fermentation schedule resulting in better repeatability with batches, healthier fermentation, and less oxidation.
This dry hopper works by containing the addition inside of a sight glass and purging out the oxygen before dosing. By equalizing the pressure inside the sight glass and fermenter, you can add anything to your beer without degassing or depressurizing.
Specifications:
Weight: 8 lbs
Height: 12.5″ (Around 13″ with a gas QD connected)
Pellet Hops Capacity: Sight Glass Version – 4 ounces, Stainless Tube Version – 3.5 ounces
Pressure Rating: 15 PSI
With the included prv and corny gas post, you will be able to completely purge the chamber before dry hopping.
We know a lot of people have a 2″ TC port with fermentors so we added a 2″ x 1.5″ TC Cap Reducer with an extra 1.5″ clamp and gasket as an optional extra to make the dry hopper compatible. The dry hopper is pretty tall at 11.25″ so you may have trouble using it if your fermentor is inside of a refrigerator or tight place.
For instructions on how to set up and use the dry hopper for both non-pressurized and pressurized fermentation, check out our PDF instructions in the link above.
WARNING: Please be careful when using the dry hopper especially if fermenting under pressure. Removing the TC clamp holding onto the sight glass without pulling the PRV first can cause the sight glass to jump up as the pressure is vented out the bottom and cause damage to the tank or injury.
The Dry Hopper – 1.5″ Tri Clover Compatible
The Dry Hopper – 3″ Tri Clover Compatible – sold out, we’ll be keeping an eye on this, connect with HBF and we’ll let you know when it’s back.
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Brewers Hardware very rarely does sales. Very rarely. They have come out to play for Black Friday. Get a free gift card $75 gift card with orders over $500, a free $40 gift card with orders over $250 and a free $10 gift card with orders over $100. No coupon code is required. Limit one gift card per ORDER. Gift cards will be emailed on 12/1/20. This is a rare chance to get a deal at Brewers Hardware.
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Silicone Tubing 1/2″ ID X 3/4″ OD via Brewers Hardware
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Silicone tubing is translucent, FDA & NSF-1 approved as food safe and the ideal tubing for making brewery hoses. Silicone tubing has a low bursting pressure and must not be placed in an application where it could be pressurized. Our silicone tubing is ultra translucent for the best possible visibility of any silicone tubing on the market. Sold by the foot.
As of this posting, Brewers Hardware has this for $2.40 per foot. Quantity discounts are available that bring it down to as low as $1.83 per foot.
Silicone Tubing 1/2″ ID X 3/4″ OD
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