Dion Hollenbeck's Useful Brewing Information
These are a lot of documents I have written, some of which I have collected
which should be very useful to brewers. Right now I am kind of HTML
illiterate, so this web page is very primitive, but I felt it was more
important to get the stuff online than to make it pretty. Hope this
is useful to people.
I apologize that some of this material is duplicated, or that some of
it is out of date and I have better info now, but I had to start someplace.
I will continue to improve this as time allows.
This entire set of links points to plain text documents which may not display
properly with some browsers. They can be viewed with View|Document Source (from
the menu).
A good
Pressure Relief Valve for fermenting in soda kegs.
A description of how to make a
FOXX style Counter Pressure Filler
A very nice diagram of the above filler by Marty Tippin
A description of how to make a
mash tun out of a Gott cooler
A description of how I do
O2 injection for fermentation
Tips on
Welding Stainless Steel
A description of the advantages/disadvantages of
Ball Lock vs. Pin Lock Kegs
A description of how to make a
tasty huge licorice porter
A description of how to make a
bulknead fitting
CO2 Saturation table
A description of how to
prepare newly obtained corny kegs
A description on how to
sanitize corny kegs
A description of how to
use a counterpressure filler.
A description of how to
ferment in corny kegs
A description of how to drill into a
chest freezer for beer faucets
A description of how to
buy from W.W. Grainger
A description of how to make a
beer keg into a brewing kettle
A description of
RIMS heater element suitability
A description of
how to select a bushing for a RIMS heater element
A description of how to
select a pump for a RIMS system
More info on
RIMS pumps
A recipe for
Frenchman's Red Ale
A discussion of the value of an
Upward Step Infusion Mash
A description of how to make a
RIMS return manifold
Helpful info on
sanitary welding
A description of the
San Diego Brewing Scene listing local brewpubs, microbreweries and
home brew supply stores.
An explanation debunking one of the common myths about RIMS brewing
systems that
it heats too slow to produce unfermentable wort
A description of how to make a
stand for three tier gravity brewing system
Another desciption on
which soda syrup canisters to buy
Description of how to
motorize a Glatt Mill.
List of suppliers and some part numbers for stuff
they have. This is very messy, but has useful info.
You can send me Email at
hollen@woodsprite.com