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I happened to have a little bit bigger one that won’t go all the way through. I think I might end up putting a 1.5” tc on the lid so I can put different fittings on top, blowoff, closed chamfers, etc. it also will allow me to dry hop without removing the whole lid.

It was on a SSbrewtech brew bucket so it’s just the little rubber plug. It was the first time using it and that style of stopper. I’ve learned to always have back up parts especially the cheap stuff.

So this morning I was going to switch my airlock over too my CO2 harvester set up so I can cold crash later , long story short I pushed my rubber stopper in the beer on my brew bucket. I think it will be ok it was sanitized when I brewed the beer 3 days ago. Luckily I had another stopper. Next...

Thank you silver is money I think I see what I did wrong. I still have a lot to learn on water. I appreciate you taking time to answer. It seems like when I think I’m starting to get a grasp on on I just end up confusing myself more.

This was the first time using the kit I may have done something wrong, and I’m still trying to understand the chemistry. These are the notes I took when I did the test, please let me know if you think I made a mistake some were

Ok thanks, I appreciate the response, I’m still trying to do research and learn about water. After getting my water report it makes sense that my darker beers always came out better then my pale ones due to the high PH. I’ll have to look at those calculators I didn’t see were I can add acid...

Thanks Gnomebrewer, it’s going to be a single vessel biab. I was going to add the gypsum to my water and take a ph reading and add some lactic acid accordingly.

This will be the first time I will be making adjustments to my water. I used a water test kit to get the following report from my house water; Chloride- 50ppm Sulfate- 5ppm Alkalinity- 48ppm HCO3 CaCO3- 60ppm Calcium- 40ppm Magnesium- 20ppm Sodium- 26ppm PH- 7.0 I’m going to be...

Ok thanks everyone for there input. I have a spike kettle with the boil coil in it and if I use their pick up tube it will go through the boil coil but I think it will touch.

Yea I guess I meant the pick up tube

I feel the same way. Every dip tube that I’ve looked at will have to go through the coil though. Have you seen any that hug the side of the kettle? I have about a inch of space between the coil and the side of the kettle.

Does any of ur dip tube touch the coil? Do you get scorching around the area or is it ok if it’s the coil touches the diptube ?

I built a single element 30amp control for doing ebiab. It is also set up for 2 pumps. My question is what size portable cable do I need to run from the plug to the controller which will be 35 feet of cable. I think sjoow 10/4 will work I just want a second opinion. Cheers

Did any of u guys worry about installing fuses on your controller?

I finally finished wiring mine this weekend. Now all I need to do is add a circuit in my panel hopefully next weekend.