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I have recently started all-grain brewing (BIAB) and am interested in how water chemistry impacts my beer. I've been using RO water with maybe a Tbsp of gypsum for a 5.5 gal batch. I live in Phoenix, so the water is pretty hard. The city water report seems a bit sketchy for brewing purposes...

Having just finished my first e-BIAB keggle, my mind has immediately started to wander: why couldn't the heating element be attached outside the kettle, on the bottom, like an electric skillet? I'm sure there are issues to be overcome (sourcing the right bendable element, figuring out how to...

It has taken WAY longer than it should have for me to get to this point, but last weekend I was finally able to take my new brew rig for a test run. I've been spending a lot of time on HBT since getting back into brewing a couple of years ago. Last year I built a stir plate (had to figure out...

I want to build a 5500W e-BIAB rig with a controller based on Auber's solid state voltage regulator. This SCR looks similar to the Kyotto unit others are buying on eBay. The only complicating factors are that I'd like to add a main power switch (which I think implies a relay or contactor) and a...

I bottled a 5 gal extract batch of West Coast IPA yesterday and thought I'd recover the yeast for a new batch I plan to brew this week. The first batch was fermented 2 weeks at 68F, dry hopped for 1 week, then cold crashed for a week, all in the primary fermenter. The yeast/trub cake in the...