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The second batch on my electric brewery and up until a few minutes ago, it went pretty well... then the boil started, I got the hops in a bag in there and came in to eat. I had set a timer on my phone, which I left plugged in in the garage where the brewery is. Went back out to find the phone...

First, it works. It looks weird, but it did work. I brewed a pale ale today, but not without a few issues. Mostly minor, as I'd expect with a new system, the only majoe issue didn't have anything to do with the brewery...I discovered my counterflow chiller leaks and is junk. The other problem...

Earlier last week I discovered that the copper coil in my herms unit didn't survive the winter. I assume now that as hard as I tried to make sure there was no water in it I failed and the tiny amount in the tube froze and cracked it. Tonight I discovered that my counterflow chiller, which has...

I've been out of brewing for quite some time, but decided I should drop back in and see if it might help me to get motivated again, so hi all!

So, my control box is at the point where I need to program a PID. It has been there all day because my brain is being very dense and none of the setup instructions makes a single bit of sense to me. I know this has been done before so somewhere on this site there has to be some simple...

I picked up this box today at the Goodwill store. It's a bit deep, but it's sturdy metal and at $6 I couldn't leave it sitting there. I think I might add some sliding shelves to put the components on because the box is 13 inches deep... which is also the height and width. In its original...

Amazon should be delivering a 10k watt SCR controller to me on Monday. I plan to use it to control the 5500 watt element in my BK. I have never used this BK before (in truth, it isn't put together yet) so I don't know the boil-off rate. My question is, can I determine that using straight water...

Working on a recipe in the Brewer's Friend calculator. The recipe, a Smash, uses 12 pounds of malt. The calculator says "Quarts of water per lb= 1.25" Then it says quarts needed for the mash is 9.2....why is that not 15? It also says boil volume should be 7.5 gallons, so would that mean the...

I'll be absolutely amazed if this go round comes out tasting right. The poor brew (an APA) has had temperature variations, been moved around and some other things go wrong. It was cool weather when I brewed...two days later it's 90 out! I made a quick swamp cooler with a fan, added ice to the...

The date on the tape on my fermenting bucket says I last brewed in July, 2015. Not as long ago as I thought, but still a while. I think I'll get back to brewing fairly often after this batch because my control box/boil kettle test this morning was a success. However, this batch is extract and I...

This is the wiring diagram I came up with for the electric box for my brewery. It doesn't show the PID and controls for the SSRs because all that is in a separate box. I am not sure whether to connect wires A, B, and C to N or ground...can someone please help me out with that?

It appears that in the 17,256 threads related to wiring a spa panel for an electric brewery the diagram to go from a 3 wire input to a 4-wire spa panel are too old to show up anymore. I didn't print it out all those years ago when I started this project, or possibly I did and lost it, but at any...

I have somewhere around 50-60 12 ounce bottles that I was saving because I was going to bottle a batch. I just don't have the time or ambition to do it. They are almost all LOng Trail pale ale bottles. They do need cleaning and delabeling. I'm in LOwell, MA but move around a bit, so if you're...

Today was supposed to be a brew day for me. My family had gone to lunch so I figured I'd get a late start and spend the afternoon brewing, so I started setting up. Decided I was hungry and ought to grill some hot dogs. That's when I found out my grill lighter is in the car after our camping trip...

I live in Lowell and would like to connect with other brewers in my area.

I've always fermented in my basement because the temperature stays on the cool side and quite constant. However, this screwed up spring weather has my basement much warmer than normal and I have two primaries down there that aren't going to be cool enough I'm afraid. One batch was brewed the 4th...

My electric brewery isn't done, but I have ingredients and want to brew today so I stole the brew kettle of it and put it on my gas burner. Testing now with water, to clean it and check for leaks and all that. I hope the gas flame doesn't damage the outside end of the electric element, but I...

It has been so long since I've made beer that I've forgotten a whole lot. A question I have right now is, how long should I primary if it appears that fermentaion has stopped after only a week? It was going so fast the second day that the airlock was a steady stream of bubbles, but is now at the...

I'm 30 minutes into the first boil I've done in a few years. Decided to do an APA extract kit to start. Forgot how vigorously extract foams when it boils...

Got this from my wine making son and know nothing about it. Wondering if I should use it for my equipment or should I wait until I can get some Star San. Anyone?