Recent content by JTremblay

At a certain point, I'd expect the efficiency to drop waaaay off -- there's only so much sugar you can dissolve in a mash.

Awesome, thanks for the advice! I can repurpose my old March pump to recirculate the water. I'm on the fence about going HERMS -- I like mashing out on wheat-y beers (not sure how well the crazy Chinese mash tun will deal with wheat flakes), but most of what we'll be focusing on the first few...

Hi folks, I need to add an electric HLT to a small brewery -- long story short, we're not going to have our on demand water heater in place in time. The specs: 3X 240v 5500 watt elements (we have large service to the unit, no worries running this) Needs to be temperature controlled We don't...

I read the article, and all I can say for certain is that I really really really want a Shakesbeer device since it seems to combine both my love of literature and beer.

Hi folks, I eventually found a way into the settings -- I had to set the controller to "boil" (I had previously tried "off" and "mash"). Then I had to poke around the intertubes to find the OEM manual for the controller since had reverted passwords. No idea why "boil" worked. And The...

The same thing happened to me yesterday. I think I messed up something while setting the controller to Celsius and cannot enter the menu -- holding down the two arrow buttons gives me a number, usually "0". Does anyone have a fix? Cheers!

Hi Walter, I'm looking for a brewery pump to help with cellaring -- beer transfers (200+ litres) and cleaning via a spray ball. So far, what I have is MoreBeer's H325 while a local reccomended the 809-SS-HS-C-115V. Given that a quick Google has both pumps for about the same $$$, which...