Recent content by Thomsen1287

Seconded on a camlock system, plus brewhardware does great service!

The downside to copper, is that alcohol will cause the copper to patina with moderate contact, that patina is toxic, so you need to thoroughly clean before and after use

If that is really how long it takes with your IC, then no, but I have a hard time believing that short of a time for ten gallons

I have the blingman therminator, I gravity feed right now with plans to integrate a pump to recirculate, but using a simple prechiller on my water I can gravity feed wide open from boiling to ~ 70 - 73 degrees as fast as it will drain roughly one gallon per min

Actually I had a picture on my phone

I can't post a picture right now, but I took a sanke, removed the spear, cut the bottom out and flipped it over, a valve with a 2 inch tri-clover will attach to the ferrule that the spear came out of. Put a false bottom in and wrapped it with reflex insulation. Now I have an all stainless 15.5...

Depending on the burner you are using you can still get heat on the outside of a keggle, a cheap heatshield can save your expensive thermo.

Hey nice build JT.

Genius! In the interest of full disclosure I may have to rip this idea myself!

I'm getting ready to upgrade my system, if it was you, or if you had to do it all over again, would you recirculate the wort through a coil in the HLT or would you recirculate hot water through a coil in the mash tun. Please provide one or a few points as to why. I have a few thoughts and...

Yeah I had my first bucket blowout the other day with wlp001 and a nice starter, thankfully my fermentation chamber kept it off the ceiling carpet and walls, but still a PitA to clean up, I will forever be a member of the blowoff tube faction for primary from now on.

No problem, I got a good chuckle!

Not one to normally be a spelling nazi but... On this case there is a large "butt" subtle difference between asses and assess....just FYI

We did a test run on about 1000 sq ft from start to finish, took us 16 hours but we learned a lot. We're moving a bit faster than that now but the equipment only goes so fast

I can empathize on finishing the concrete, I've been involved with an ongoing project to refinish 25,000 sq ft of 20 year old concrete, from 30 grit all the way to 3500 all dry. We are doing it all dry with a giant shop vac that runs on 240, and using a floor scrubber between grits