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Found this recipe in the Top 100 HBT Recipes article and was intrigued. Over the past few days I've read through all 79 pages of posts and I will be brewing this up tomorrow. I see a lot of people substituting the Chinook, but only a couple Willamette subs, usually for Fuggles. I have all the...

Just an FYI to any Canadians. I bought my first STC-1000 in January from Brainydeal by way of Amazon.ca (link) and it was the flashable, A400_P version. I just bought another from the same source and found out it is the 1.1 version that doesn't have the header solder points. The text on the...

I finally got around to having my connections soldered and it worked like a charm! :ban: No alarm, no problems detecting my controller. The solder pads looked good enough originally, but who knows? Thanks to alpha, gueykewl, wil, balrog and Sudz for all the input trying to help me to get this...

I'll be checking things over with a multimeter today and report back on how things go. My boss will also help me with soldering the pins in (I was just holding the header to the back of the STC-1000). I should have mentioned that before attempting to flashing the STC-1000, I previously used...

I tried again - with the probe in and still get the alarm. I read in the instructions that came with the controller that if there is a short the alarm will go off too, with an EE on the screen. Apparently you should be able to silence the alarm by pressing any button but that doesn't work, nor...

I watched the actual flashing part of the video last night after my failure, to see how far the output should've gotten, but I'm going to watch the full video tonight before another attempt.

It was a loud, high-pitched sound, but I didn't have the temp probe connected. I'll make sure to connect it when I try again to avoid waking my family up. It did make the clicking noise as soon as it was in the process of writing to the STC-1000. The alarm sound turned off at this point as...

Just tried flashing mine today but looks like I bricked it. I have the A400_P version and quintuple checked my wiring. When I connected it, the alarm made a noise but I didn't know if this was normal or not at the time (I should've watched a video on the flashing first). It did detect the...

+1 If you don't have the burning iron, just the notch alone should be sufficient. I wouldn't use a marker. According to Sharpie, ​​"While Sharpie markers are AP-certified non-toxic, we do not recommend using them on areas of items that may come in contact with food or the...

Its crazy to see how many nasty things get into (and are acceptable) in the food you eat: FDA's Defect Levels Handbook. At the factory, it's acceptable for orange juice (canned, anyway) to have 1 maggot or 5 fly eggs per cup.

Thanks for the responses. @Brew-Jay, didn't even think of a pre-chiller. I have my immersion chiller that I can use for that in the warmer months. Tap water gets nice and cold up here in the winter months :) @LandoLincoln, thanks for confirming my suspicions on sticking that pipe through :P

I will be building a CFC this weekend. I was originally going to go for a 50' but am now leaning to a 25' one. Does anyone with experience know if it is worth going for 50'? Has someone used both a 25' and 50' CFC and seen a big improvement? I foresee it will be more of a PITA to stick...

Good to hear! Thanks for the responses!

Quick question for you guys. I have dry hopped with purchased pellets before and had no issues. This time around I will be using my home-grown hops. I've dried them, vaccuum-sealed them and froze them for storage. Do I have to worry about any contamination issues adding these to the primary...

I planted hops for the first time this year and was getting anxious as nothing came up for about 3 weeks from my Challenger rhizome. Like FuzzeWuzze said, since there was nothing I could do I just left them. It's been raining like crazy here so I didn't even have to water them. I checked...

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Thanks Ty! That makes sense. I'll run through the math tonight.

I recently effed up my pumpkin beer by forgetting to add the sugar addition to the boil. I didn't realize this until racking to the secondary. So I decided to boil the sugar addition, cool it and add it to the secondary to try to rectify my mistake as best I could. My question is, am I able...

I've been wanting to order some of these. Code me please!

Phew! I'm glad there may be hope for my batch just yet. Thanks for the input!