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I tried attaching a dead-end RIMs tube to the bottom of the conical - starting hearing loud popping sounds after a few minutes so I turned it off. Guessing just the steam going up vs. the weight of the water causing that: https://imgur.com/Pb9XX8c

Very cool, thanks for the pics - I tried using a 1000w bucket heater in 6gallons but it couldn't quite up to boiling, going to up to 5500w. I've also been thinking about ways to measure volume in the conical, wanted to avoid adding a site tube. I've tried ultrasonic sensors (don't work with...

Did this ever end up working for ya? I'm about to try the same thing, big heat stick in a conical fermentor to boil in, ferment, carbonate, and serve from.

I really like this idea, though the heat distribution thing I think is a pretty likely problem. Also trub and hops falling down and getting trapped in the heat tube and scorching. Though you could get a mesh screen tri clamp gasket which might be enough to prevent that...

The main thinking was from looking at indirect fire systems (a few links below to the probrewer forums below talk about it) which look to be a forced air heater firing into a firebox below a kettle, heating both the bottom and sides with a pseudo jacket. One post mentions firing into a stainless...

Has anyone thought of or tried an alternative heating source, through the conical jacket? e.g. hot air into the jacket, hot oil into the jacket, etc

With a quick update, I was able to somewhat get the above to work, but it's difficult to restrict the torpedo down to a small 1/4" opening on the jacket without losing a ton of heat. Can still heat up 12 gallons or so at 2F / minute, without any outside insulation on the fermenter. Maybe I just...

I'm trying to figure out a way to do indirect fire heating on a homebrew scale, mainly as a prototype for a larger system. Not able to find a ton of info on indirect heating on the probrewer side, but it seems like a really nice alternative to steam. Would be a post boil conical all-in-1 system...

Hey all - does anyone know of any table/calculator that shows how much any given malt will contribute to various ions in the finished beer? e.g. 2 row mashed in distilled water with a gravity of 1.04 will contribute 100 mg/l of chloride to the finished beer. The closest I came was Handbook of...

Has anyone tried skadoosh (any #) against heady? Knowing that skadoosh is 100% perle malt (per this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STPOtTaSqEA), anyone able to taste the difference in the malt build between 100% perle vs. heady? Is it possible heady is 100% perle? As a side note, the...

I agree with stirring the mash - this is purely anecdotal from my 30gallon pot RIMs system, but I get the best results when I circulate, turn off and stir, let it sit for 10 mins, circulate again to keep the heat up, etc. I seem to get faster conversion when the mash is sitting without...

I submitted a ward labs reading for my water and finished beer - I'm trying to figure out what if my hardness is an issue and if what I think might be a slight metallic flavor in my beers could be coming from magnesium. Nothing wrong with the beer, but the magnesium level seemed high compared to...

Hey all, just wanted to log a ward labs for a finished mind the hop from aslin brewery in Herndon VA (a gaining-popularity juice bomb-focused brewery) for anyone who's interested. pH - 4.6 TDS - 2020 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm - 3.37 Cations/Anions, me/L - 54.7/27.4** ppm...

Does anyone have an issues where the readings spike up crazy high? and over time gravity increases? If i watch my tilt app, I see my 1.014 nearly finished fermenter spike to 1.285ish every few seconds (along with a drop in temperature of about 10 degrees), and increase to 1.017 over the course...

Random question, does anyone know if CraftBrewPi supports PID autotuning? I have a hosehead with Strangebrew Elsinore, and trying to compare against CraftBrewPi. Strangebrew doesn't do autotuning as far as I'm aware.