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Contents:
  NG Regulator Update (Paul Hethmon)
  Reusing yeast (Glyn and Mary)


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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:29:57 -0400
From: Paul Hethmon <phethmon at hethmon.com>
Subject: NG Regulator Update

Back in January I was asking about excess soot from my burners
and suggestions for fixing the problem. I use a 10 jet ring burner
for natural gas where I've plugged the center two jets in both.

A friend in the homebrew club suggested I add a natural gas
regulator to my system. So, for about $18, I got a simple appliance
regulator and plumbed it in. As is often the case, it then took a 
month before I had a chance to brew again.

The results are great. With my brew session yesterday, the one
burner that was turning my kettle black worked almost perfectly.
With the flame at 50% gas flow or better, all I got was nice blue.

The "almost" is due to the poor workmanship of the burner. This
design needs the jets to point at one another to create a bit of 
turbulence and burn properly. One of the threaded fittings was
done a bit off and so the two jets are slightly askew. When I
was under 50%, that one spot burned a bit yellow and left soot.

So, overall verdict on these burners is to reseal the jets with
good plumbers dope. They leak around the threads from the 
factory. Second is to use the proper regulator.

I did not perceive any reduction in heat output with the regulator
and as a benefit the noise level was reduced. I could hear 
myself think at full throttle.

thanks,

Paul Hethmon
Farragut, Tennessee



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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:01:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glyn and Mary <graininfuser at yahoo.com>
Subject: Reusing yeast

At the next brew club meeting I would like to give a little 
talk about reusing yeast. Does anyone have any input?
All credit will be given.
Thank you,
Glyn
S. Middle TN
Backwoods Carboys



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