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Sorry... I have a bad habit of speaking before I have all the facts. I found a tankless heater that will get to the temps brewers need, but it is $1595 and (no doubt) requires professional installation. I found it here...

Sorry... I have a bad habit of speaking before I have all the facts. I found a tankless heater that will get to the temps brewers need, but it is $1595 and (no doubt) requires professional installation. I found it here...

When you look at something like this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/203210878?productId=203210878&storeId=10051&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&MERCH=REC-_-product-2-_-203316215-_-203210878-_-N#.UTZbDKL1Tls It appears you can only heat the water up to "as high as 140 deg"... that wouldn't be enough...

I'm considering a tankless water heater also. We are going to T into our hot and cold water lines to get some plumbing into the garage. I'd like to be able to avoid heating water in kettles and rather be able to run the water directly into my mash tuns from the copper pipe... and I'd also like...

@ Yooper - I kind of thought that was the case. Damn it!!! :-) Thanks for the input guys. I really appreciate it.

It is winter and my fridge in the garage froze some of my yeast packs. I don't think this is going to ruin anything, but would like some confirmation from you guys. They are now thawed. I don't know how long they were frozen. Does anyone think this might have ruined them? I'm going to...

I really appreciate all the input. I have some good ideas from all of this.

I think the Blichmann website and videos state that you can use the hoprocket with WHOLE HOPs as an inline filter in front of the plate chiller. Personal preference - I've never really liked the idea of the hop bag in the wort since it seems like it is plastic and it also seems like i won't...

yeah... I think we are going to go to the HopRocket as an inline filter. Do any of you guys use that? I realize now that keeping hops out of that thing is key. Thanks for the input guys. I'll try some of these methods. I don't have a pump so i don't have an easy way to recirculate the wort...

Does anyone have a love/hate relationship with their Therminator? I love this thing, but last night when we were chilling it got clogged right away. So we finished cooling enough for one carboy and then disconnected it to flush it out. If you have one of these and you use pellet hops you know...

wow. thanks. i'll look that over. it looks a little beyond my ability at this point.

cool. send me the link.

But I use glass carboys... so i don't have a way to do that, except i've thought of just swirling it and dumping into another carboy. I also just drain the beer and dump on top of the yeast left in there.

Thanks for all the input guys.

Good idea. one of my main goals is to eliminate buying DME as it is much more expensive than grain, but I don't want to do a 'special' mash just for starters.