Recent content by schmagy

Yup, Pump it.

I am not much of a cider maker so take this with the grain of salt it deserves, but the one time I made cider, it ended up pretty tart from the vitamin c added to the original apple juice as a preservative. Use a yeast nutrient to avoid a healthy case of rhinoceros farts during fermentation.

I used two adjustable pots. 1Mohlm and roughly 200k, gave me adjustment over off time and on time. I did add 1k resistors in series with the pots. Gave me the ability to set the off period between 0-2 seconds and the on time to 0-19 seconds. With a bigger cap you can go to periods up to...

Smaller size cam locks work fine I would guess. I've never used them, and you are not having problems. Tc's are clearly at their best when the user is welding or soldering something like a brew kettle or rims tube or wants to make large jumps in sizes. For example: Going from a 2" rims tube...

Yes, if that happens, you are doing it wrong.

Very secure connection that is as fast as a quick connect to open. Nearly 0% leak rate at the connection. You can actually get it open to scrub it, and dry it so that mold doesn't form in your precious tube when you cant brew every week. Very cost effective when compared to comparable...

You can do it that way... you get better efficiency by batch sparging it though, and it only takes a few minutes and some hot water. When I did a 5 gal batch I would just pull the bag an drop it in the other kettle i had hot water in, then pour the two together. I usually do 11-12 gallon...

Roughly Nine. I measured with a bucket. It was my first brew on my e-keg and I was using up old ingredients since i hadnt brewed since I decided to go electric. I was shooting for 1.33 mash ratio, but was just not that precise as I was mostly doing a first test of a new system. there was...

I did a 24 lb grain bill last night in mine... works great. Drained the wort to a bucket while I batch sparged. For sure going to get a pump soon.. Full buckets of hot water are a little scary.

Yes. Failure mode for a solid state relay is closed, or ON. Common failure root cause is excessive heat. De-rating of relays is required at even modest temperature. For example, page three of this 40 amp relay data sheet indicates that it can only pass slightly more than 20 amps at roughly...

If you use liquid yeast, it will give you a real nice headstart on aeration as well

No one mentions agitating the wort with IC chillers. Its all about delta T. Grab a glove and stir/shake that chiller baby....... as you run the chiller the wort closest to the chiller will cool down, leaving a transition layer near the coils that has very low temp differential. Agitating the...

I have not done that with these containers, however I have done it with a SS keg and a rubber stopper. I used CO2 to push it. It worked fine... that container is rated to 15 psi per DOT standards, but that isn't really an issue since it will only take 3psi to push it over... any more than 5ish...

With the volumes and flows you are going to use, there are no flow meters that are going to be accurate enough to do what you want without both a high cost and the associated control equipment. Then you will get the food safe issue. much better off getting a level switch of some sort. many...

Quote "scotch scotch scotch, scotch in my belly!" Ron Burgundy Do go out and buy Michael Jacksons book on whisky and Jim Murray's whisky bible. http://www.whiskybible.com/ those two books will save you much disappointment and may unearth a gem or two you would not have purchased. anyone...