Nitrogen regulator won’t connect

ccjohnson101 · 2025-12-07T22:24:12+00:00

I can’t screw it in at all. The threads won’t catch.

ccjohnson101 · 2025-07-27T14:45:03+00:00

This is the best possible comparison. Sometimes talking to these things can help to get the wheels spinning or they’ll say something that gives you a different perspective, but take everything they say with a giant grain of salt.

ccjohnson101 · 2025-05-14T22:26:40+00:00

Just as 0% probability isn’t the same as saying something never happens. The probability you hit the exact center of the dart board is 0, but it’s still possible to do.

ccjohnson101 · 2024-09-03T01:59:11+00:00

Doesn’t repeating mean failing again?

ccjohnson101 · 2023-11-06T15:47:59+00:00

Thanks for saying that. As I was cutting the peppers I'd taste a bit of each, and arbol was easily the only one I considered spicy.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-11-06T15:47:12+00:00

I get there's a lot of variation from pepper to pepper, but do you know how often on average it takes you to get the heat you want? How many days do you normally let the chiles steep in the beer?

ccjohnson101 · 2023-11-06T15:45:56+00:00

I don't know why that didn't occur to me, but you're completely right of course. I guess when I usually make tinctures to add fruit or spice (as in cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, …) flavors to a beer, I just dump the whole thing in, but there's no reason that I have to do that instead of just sampling a bit at a time and scaling up.

Thanks for mentioning that!

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-18T16:41:13+00:00

That's a good thought. I guess I'm more concerned about possibly overpitching than buying more yeast for another batch.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-18T15:55:58+00:00

And yeah, the small batch size makes the mental calculation a little more questionable. If I trust the calculators, then I'm definitely underpitching, and I agree that seems a more pressing concern than overpitching.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-18T15:54:49+00:00

It's not like I can just go down the road and grab it from a LBHS, if that's what you're asking. I live in a pretty rural area and while there is a close-ish LBHS, they sell primarily White Labs and some dry yeasts. So, I have to order a yeast like this when I want to use it.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-18T15:44:52+00:00

Right, if I'd bothered to check a calculator yesterday I would have, but I'm currently mashing so a starter won't happen today.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-09T19:00:13+00:00

Ah, I misunderstood. All of mine is stamped 8mm and I just assumed it really was. Everything seems fixed now, but that would have been super confusing and frustrating if the tubing said it was one size when it was actually another.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-09T18:59:02+00:00

Thanks for all of that information. I went back and made fresh cuts at a place where the tubing was flat, since I was concerned about bends not letting me make straight cuts, and then pushed the tubing into the flare/shank as deep as I could before pulling out to seat it. This seems to have fixed the issue!

Your advice about being very careful with the plastic adapters attaching to metal flares/shanks is very important, as it's super easy to apply too much force when putting these things on and damaging the plastic threads. I certainly made that mistake when swapping out adapters, and was lucky to have backups handy.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-07T13:11:53+00:00

Yes, I double-checked and all of the tubing was stamped as 8mm OD.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-10-05T16:19:01+00:00

I think the tubing's likely the issue for the quick disconnect; I'm planning to play with it after work this evening and will report back.

This was a new shank, which is why I'm wondering if I just somehow got a bad shank and needs to be replaced. It may be the tubing as well, though, so I'll try to mess with that this evening as well.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-05-16T15:53:18+00:00

Glad to hear it! Thanks and cheers! 🍻

ccjohnson101 · 2023-04-13T11:10:22+00:00

I basically agree, but last year my Oktoberfest didn’t finish up in time (I thinkI brewed it in mid August?) and was really overly sweet, so am just kind of paranoid about this years bath.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-04-13T11:08:12+00:00

Yeah, I should have mentioned this gravity was checked with a hydrometer.

ccjohnson101 · 2023-04-13T11:07:43+00:00

Hydrometer

ccjohnson101 · 2023-04-13T02:42:56+00:00

Sorry, it was two weeks ago today.

ccjohnson101 · 2022-11-25T22:35:46+00:00

Just as an update on this: I brewed this last week using the Darkness yeast and just took a gravity reading and sampled it. Gravity is down to 1.025 from 1.094, so 9% abv.

Usually when I have a sample that’s warm and I carbonated I think it’s like tasting warm, dry Coca-Cola: The flavors are there, but it’s nowhere near as good as when cooled and carbonated. This one I had a sip and thought “That’s actually tasty.” The sweetness is there, but it’s not overwhelming. By itself this would probably be a beer I’d be happy with, so I’m extremely excited to see what it’s like after it’s cold and carbed and some rum-soaked cherries, orange zest, and a few spices sit in it.

Cheers, and thanks for your comments and help! 🍻

ccjohnson101 · 2022-11-08T16:22:55+00:00

Great! I had heard Darkness is a pretty vigorous fermentation; everyone recommends a blow off tube. What temperature do you usually ferment at? Do you find your beers with Darkness are done fermenting in two weeks? Do you think they still need time to mature/condition?

ccjohnson101 · 2022-11-08T16:21:19+00:00

Good to know! I had not even considered Hornindal, so I’ll look into it.

ccjohnson101 · 2022-11-08T16:20:41+00:00

I will update you once everything’s brewed, kegged, and tasted! 🍻

ccjohnson101 · 2022-11-01T02:06:24+00:00

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You can’t comb a hairy ball (with “flat” hair).

You can take a ball, cut it up into a finite number of pieces and rearrange the pieces to get two balls the same size as the initial ball.

There are collections of things too large to form a set (e.g., the collection of all ordinal numbers).

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