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I love all the cool automated brewing gadgets and projects that many on here have built and are constantly building, but I've gotten to the point that I don't want to have a PC, or even a Raspberry PI involved in my brewing. I just don't want gadgets for the sake of gadgets, I want gadgets and...

When it comes to boil kettles, I'm of the opinion that hop and trub separation are of paramount concern; boil kettles need to effortlessly do this task to prevent constant recurring brew day pain, IMHO. The new round, "Halo" electric elements are very useful for us electric brewers on this...

I was just starting my christmas list for Santa and at the top of that list was supposed to be an All American Ale Works Power Grinder malt mill motor, but their website doesn't seem to exist any more... Anyone know what happened to these guys? Is there an alternative ready-to-go mill...

Since I reset all of my Pid settings and performed a new autotune a while back, I've noticed that when I have my pid controller in Automatic mode that it's rather "Bursty"- the temp jumps when the element comes on and then it rapidly falls. When I bump the A-M button, while it's still in...

My quest for modern German grists / recipes continues; although there's ton of great information on TRADITIONAL German beer recipes and modern AMERICANIZED interpretations, there's little information on actual modern German grists and recipes for breweries that exist and operate today, I'm...

My Auber SLY-2352 never finishes calibration.... anyone got any ideas? It's been doing this for MONTHS. It used to DRAMATICALLY overshoot my temps (I switch the power out from my SSR between the boil kettle and HLT with a 3 way switch and manually turn it to off sometime- I now know that...

Yes, I know I'm incredibly lucky with my water especially when it comes to BoPils. -The pH is actually higher than I expected... I have a VERY experienced brewer who brews probably 1 out of every 4 beers as a bohemian pilsner on the same neighborhood as me so I know that I still need to...

Can anyone provide some information on where this Cheerios flavor comes from in a no boil Berliner Weisse? I brewed a 60% German Pilsner Malt, 40% wheat malt no boil, no hop Berliner on Saturday and I've been getting loads of Cheerios flavor. I've seen it mentioned in a few places and no...

This weekend I was lucky enough to get to test out what is likely the final prototype of a new counterflow chiller from BrickRiverBrew.com. I don't want to spoil Kenny's big reveal so obviously the final chiller might be slightly different and I'm not going to give away the current proposed...

I just got my new counterflow chiller and have finished attaching all of my camlocks and I'm getting ready to test it out for the first time, but I'm really having a hard time planning where exactly to mount it. The counterflow chiller will be used both for HERMS mashing and then after the...

Um... Wow! Pretty impressive and major changes planned in the BrewPi space. Especially interested to see the BrewPi Photon Spark implementation in the March timeframe; hopefully they'll be Android apps by then for it, too. http://www.brewpi.com/introducing-brewpi-spark/ Adam

Completely unnecessary especially for $250, but I've got to admit, it's pretty dang cool! Well done, sir! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiwBl_035U Adam

Trying to make a long story short(er): I started fermenting a Centennial / Nelson Sauvin hopped Saison (French Saison strain) for a few days and when the gravity dropped to about 1.025, I pitched a mixture of non-commercially available Brettanomyces strains. The Brett was obtained from...

I'm curious what equipment is required and what the process looks like to test for the presence of DMS in wort / finished beer. So much of the professional literature focuses on macro brewery conditions that it's really hard to get good data that can be appropriately applied to home...

Anyone come across anyone offering a turn-key powered mill solution yet? I don't really want to deal with motor capacities, wiring, gear / pulley ratios, etc... to automate my off-the-shelf Monster mill. Does anyone offer a motor+pulley fully pre-wired solution for automating mills? Using...

Anyone come across some good Still Dragon electric element controller modifications? -Externally mounted heatsinks, power switches, etc... I'm looking to move my boil kettle to dial-control with a second external box that's separate from my main control panel (PID controller dedicated to...

Although I'm quite happy that there are now electric elements that don't involve any "rust grade" steel parts, I'm still looking for my dream element and that means a low or ultra low heat density incoloy stainless element with an incoloy or regular (300 series) rust-free stainless base...

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/for/4734957734.html $350 I paid $399 and then paid a welder to weld in a stainless ferrule, then I added a stainless triclamp dip tube from Stout Tanks. You can configure a similar kettle from Stout or Brewers Hardware or where ever you can find one and once...

Yes, I realize that acetaldehyde in beer just means that you rushed fermentation or really didn't use enough healthy yeast, and I realize that making a "krausen bier" is probably the easiest/ best way to clean it up, BUT... I started winemaking this fall and I ran across a tidbit of...

$399 -STRONG preference given to local pickup, but I'd ship as an absolute last resort. It is VERY heavy (31+ lbs) so shipping won't be cheap. http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/for/4669569468.html SUPER heavy-duty, 304 Stainless Steel 15 Gallon Tri-Clamp Brewery Kettle. Has had an...