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Try brew in a bag 3 gallon batches. I did a Kolsch and a dry stout for around 20 bucks each.

Thanks for the input.

I tried the Northern Brewer Kolsch 3 gallon BIAB. I followed the directions but ended up with 4 gallons. I did the boil outside and it was quite cold and windy. Could that have caused it not to boil off? In the future if that happens should I just continue boiling until it goes down?

Gentlemen we have success. Found a 12v power supply to a router. Connected it to the fan controller and we are rockin. Thanks for all the help.

Ok thanks for all of the input. I am off to get some more parts. Update to follow.

I just checked and it is. What to do now?

this presents another problem as well. i have a fan controller as well. that is what i have been trying to attach the power to. the actual fan has plugs that go to the fan controller and a plug that is black and red. but to this point i have been trying to hook the power to the black and...

With the blackberry charger i just cut the plug off and used one of those pencil meters thats shows you whether somethin is hot or not. I wanted to find which of the two wires was hot and it was going off for both. I tried another plug for a LG phone and it didnt go off at all for that one so i...

Attempted to do one of these and afraid i am in over my head. I got the project box from radio shack, the fan, and a fan controller. My problem is the first cell phone charger i got didnt work. I dont know whether is the charger itself or not. I dont know whether i am attaching it tot the rught...

i went with the dual advice of a.) wiping the tube and bung with the sanitized rag. went it alot further this time. think that was the initial mistake. its down a few inches now. b.) i also taped the tube to the carboy. that will help me sleep better. thanks for the advice.

i got the tube from my lhbs. the carboy is a glass spring water bottle so i dont know if its got an extra obstruction down in the bung (hehe) but i will try that idea thanks. as far as infection do i have just have to wait or is there anything to look out for? thanks again

first time using a glass carboy. put it in around 10 pm woke up the next day to the thing laying on the ground? put it back in and it got bubbling good and some foam blew through. then it popped out again. put it back in and its bubbling. is this common? how screwed am i? im not gonna...