Best industrial process filter housings according to redditors
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best industrial process filter housings. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 3 Reddit comments discussing the best industrial process filter housings. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Its a shame the previous owner didnt leave the wrench (its a plastic hoop with 6 notches and a handle) but if you need a replacement they are pretty cheap on amazon :http://www.amazon.com/Pentek-150296-SW-3-Wrench-Housings/dp/B004VNCEA6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1462984940&sr=8-3&keywords=water+filter+wrench
obviously check your filter against the description before ordering, they sell them in all kinds of sizes.
GIT GUD SON!
Seriously, attention to detail will drive your beer from ok to good.
Control will take it to great.
Water: This is most of your beer, if your water sucks your beer will suck. At the least use a carbon filter or campden tabs to kill the chlorine/chloramines coming through from the tap. Below are links to a filter setup. Plumb the outlet to 1/4" OD tubing. This will slow down the flow a lot. Slower flow = better contact time = better water. Get this much done on the cheap, if you want to play with RO and pH do it later. Get this level of consistency down first.
Filter body: https://www.amazon.com/Hydronix-HF3-10CLWH34PR-Housing-Pressure-Relief/dp/B01CFOGH32/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1494856726&sr=8-4&keywords=10%22+filter+body
Filter:https://www.amazon.com/DuPont-WFPFC8002-Universal-2-Phase-Cartridge/dp/B007JRDT96/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1494856764&sr=8-2&keywords=dupont+carbon+filter
Make sure you are getting a good boil. Target 1gal/hour of boiloff. This will help your drive off undesirable compounds in the wort and up your hop utilization.
Hops: Make sure they are fresh, frozen, and under vacuum (if you can't manage vacuum double ziplock making sure to push out as much air as possible)
Yeast: Manage your pitch rates, use the calculator over at brewunited. If you don't have the resources to manage yeast starters stick to dry yeast and learn how to rehydrate them. More and more strains are emerging on the dry market and the dry yeast offers a great deal of consistency.
Ferm Temp: This one will make you a hero. This one is not as expensive as it seems. It is May, dorm fridges should be flooding CL, snatch one up for cheap, pick up an ITC-308 from amazon for a temp controller, and also pick up a 17W seedling heat mat. If you are careful all this could be had for less than $100.
Post Ferm: Once the beer is done fermenting minimize contact with oxygen. Since you are focusing on pale ales reducing the oxygen contact with the wort will easily improve your quality. Check out the sterile siphon starter over at brulosophy and note how they have it directly hooked up to the keg post instead of dropping the tube through the open top.
Feel free to PM me if you have further questions.
I was in a pretty similar situation. Our water is really hard and after running through the water softener it doesn't taste that great. I picked up this guy to improve the taste of our drinking water. I've only had it for about 6 months so I haven't replaced any of the filters yet. It looks like amazon also has an annual filler pack for a little over $60.
We didn't have any problems with installation. All the connections were simple 'push together' type connections. If I remember correctly it even comes with a splitter to fork the filtered water out to the fridge.
The cons:
I'm glad we did it just because the water tastes so much better than our regular tap water, but YMMV.