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10 gallons last night, 5935

Thanks drez, when you say pre boil, are you starting at mash temp around 160 or from out of the tap?

I am in the heating and air trade, and we have a few barrels full of scrap copper that has been pulled out of houses when we change out systems or left over ends of new rolls, 3/8 is the most common size. You may need to solder a few pieces together to get 50 feet. This is what I have done. I...

Drez, are you just using one element, what wattage? Thanks for the replies

I am currently using a natural gas burner to brew with but I have been considering building a few electric keggles for using in my garage this winter. How long on average does it take to bring 13 gallons to boil using a 4500 watt element?

I have an oatmeal stout fermenting now, I plan to crash cool it and keg it on Friday, as far as cost of running, right now it hardly runs, I think because of the insulation around the keg and the cold glycol that stays in the coil around the keg after system shuts off, I noticed that the temp...

I had to install a service port on my window ac to recover the refrigerant, weld in ports are best, piercing type will work, but tend to leak over time.

I am just using one ranco temp control to turn system on when beer temp rises. The evaporator is about 25 feet of 3/8 copper, you will need to be able to remove the refrigerant from the system to weld in the new coil. In the article in the magazine he used the factory coil. I used 50 feet of...

It is in the May-June 2009 issue

I built this after I saw Marty's article in Brew Your Own. I built my own evaporator coil to cover more area inside the cooler. I am testing it out on a oatmeal stout, The temps in my garage are in the upper 70's to mid 80's right now, and it is having no trouble holding 66 degrees, it only runs...

Will it harm my beer to use a short piece of aluminum tube in my fermenter for a thermowell?

I think it is because of aphids, there are areas hollowed out at the bottoms of some of the hops.