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I personally would go with a 148F maybe max 150F on the mash. I like to get a little better attenuation. 153F would just be too sweet.

I went right into secondary. Mine came in a vacuum bag. I sanitized it like I would with a yeast packet and pored them right in.

I have an extra boil kettle/hlt pot that I did for a buddy that ended up not wanting this. From my Craigslist add with more pictures

For the 1.5" tc's I recommend 1.25" and the dimpling tool. 1 3/16 would be even better.

The pricing on the still dragon element holder is pretty good. Wish I had seen this sooner.

I definitely agree. I went down to 152 on the second batch of this. I would even consider a 148 mash temp for the next version.

terrazza, got any more details on your rig?

Where's the pictures?

Adding the honey sounds like an interesting idea. Are you adding the hone during fermentation or to back sweeten the beer?

Dean, this is when recirculation becomes hugely important. I'd definitely considering adding a pump and putting a probe on the outlet.

Bobby, it would seem that if you were welding these in you would probably want to weld them on both the inside and outside?

I definitely recommend checking out www.electricbrewery.com. Kal does a great write up and explains everything step by step.

Great thread. I just wanted to suggest that you may want to consider running your temp probes on the outlet of each keg. I tried the method where you mount them in the keg and got pretty unreliable results. You'll notice a big temperature difference depending on where they are mounted. Per...

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Got any pictures of the din contactors that you are thinking about?