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I have a used Square D 30 amp Homeline GFCI breaker I used for brewing in my last house that I want to sell as my current house has an Eaton panel. I can't find any used ones to compare prices against; but, Amazon wants $106 for a new one. I'm thinking around $65 + $13.60 for a medium USPS...

If they took your money, have you asked for a refund? If they are holding your money hostage that is an issue and you can contact your credit card company to get some assistance. Yeah the probably need to update their website to reflect reality. On the other side, sounds like they are a new...

Bad idea...investing the time, money, and fermentation capacity to throw bugs at an already bad beer seems like a lot for a low probability of it turning into something good. Could it end up being good, perhaps; but, better to start with a good beer. It's IBU's will be a definite problem for...

I've played around with peat, don't think it much belongs in beer. If it were me I'd venture to mimicking characters of Scotches that were not peated and avoid the Islays as inspiration. I wouldn't think any of the hops you have listed would get you to that Scotch whiskey character. I'd be...

I could see with that education you'd be a bit more particular about accuracy in your readings too. You probably have a high precision FG hydrometer with the thin whisp of glass...I've broken one of those. Broke a graduated cylinder by dropping my hydrometer into it so now I stick to the...

I'm not a beer hypochondriac, been doing it far too long and realized most things people get stressed out about in brewing are massively over blown bits of forum group think. If I had to read a hydrometer at a slight angle and was off a point from reality I wouldn't loose any sleep knowing my...

My hydrometer is 17 years old...I don't drink and brew so my equipment tends to not break ;).

Or sanitize the hydrometer and put it directly into the beer. Probably a little less oxidation will occur that way too as you aren't pulling a sample and dumping it back in, just gently putting a hydrometer into the fermenter.

Don't discount the split batch. One of the reasons I go to my Better Bottles and leave my 1/2 bbl conical to collect dust is to split the batch. You can do all sorts of stuff like different yeast strains, different dry hops, fruit, experiment with different pitch rates, oxygen rates, ferment...

I think you are too worried about trub getting into the fermenter. Since you have the ability to whirlpool, do the whirlpool for a few minutes, shut it down, wait 20 minutes and then rack off the clear wort. Even if a little gets in to the fermenter its not a big deal. If it is still a...

A stainless conical does not make better beer than a plastic bucket. They have certain advantages; but, that of making superior beer is not one of them. At the same time, I wouldn't spend extra money on a plastic conical when something like a Better Bottle does a great job. Plastic scratches...

When you run a HERMS you will be continuously cycling the wort through which will set your grain bed and give you a clear wort. I use 3-way valves so I can run my recirc through the herms coil and then kick over the valve to switch over to sparging. If you seem to be getting a lot of...

If the intake allows for larger particles to pass through than the sparge apparatus, clogs might happen. Proper design can easily mitigate such occurrences or make it very easy to fix if it does happen.

I used a slotted copper pipe manifolds for years on various cooler MT's without them ever clogging, so I would imagine if using one for sparging it wouldn't clog either, especially if the slots were larger on the sparge side than the intake side at the bottom of the MT. One thing I did was not...