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I have looked through the many spa panel threads and am still not exactly clear on how to wire my setup. I have a 30amp breaker in the main panel, 10/3 with ground ruin to the garage where I brew, a 60amp breaker in a spa panel that will power a single 5500W element in an enclosure. I also...

I have a NB 10gal kettle, a keggle and a Bayou Classic 20gal. I want to go electric and so far I've purchased a couple Camco 5500W wavy elements and a couple cheap Chinese SCR controllers. My thought is to get an element guard with a triclover fitting so I can remove the element and use it in...

I wanted to brew a cream ale and didn't have flaked corn so I bought some yellow corn meal (degerminated). I knew it needed to be cooked to gelatinize the starch, so first I put some in water and tried to heat it. That scorched right away and I had to throw that out. My second attempt was to...

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We're heading to CA for vacation next week and I wanted to get recommendations for places to find good beer. We're staying in Pismo Beach. I see one brewpub in Pismo where we're staying, and several in SLO. I was kind of thinking of hitting Firestone Walker in Paso. Are there other...

I've used my Brewhemoth conical for four batches now and decided I'd better take off the valves and clean them. I tried to disassemble them but even though I removed the bolts holding the two halves of main body together, the handle part wouldn't allow them to come apart. Does anyone have a...

NB is offering a free basic equipment starter kit with the purchase of any kit and a kettle. Promo code is FreeStarterKit. Says is good for two days, and a limited number are available. I bought the 5gal economy kettle for $38, an $18 extract kit (no yeast I have some), and with shipping it...

I'd like to be able to brew lagers in my 22gal Brewhemoth conical. I was thinking about making a chamber in the garage using 2" foam and putting a small room air conditioner in it. Theres a little sliding garage-type window that I could put the AC in and then build the chamber around that...

I'm building another homemade IC. My first one is fine for small batches but I have a 20gal kettle now and want something that will chill this down in 20min. I know my choices and have chosen an IC with whirlpool. My choices for tubing thickness are K,L, and refrigeration. I believe those...

I'm wanting to upgrade from an IC to CFC and I'd like to whirlpool as well, so I'm looking at pumps to accomplish this. I see that the new 815 design seems to have fewer cavitation issues, but my question is do I need the higher flow rate and will it be overkill if I want to pump relatively...

I bought the cheapest induction cooktop I could get on Amazon, a Max Burton 6000 for $60 (free shipping with Amazon Prime). This unit has a perfect footprint for holding 5gal of water in an 8gal stainless kettle. My kettle is a stainless pot with triple layer bottom from Morewine, most...

I bought a 12V bilge pump (Harbor Freight) to use in a CIP system for my Brewhemoth. I had the great idea to use a 12V battery charger as a power source since I was having trouble laying my hands on a car battery that is somewhere in the garage. It ran but the pump didn't seem to be moving...

I bought a CIP ball from brewershardware. The thing is larger than I envisioned, something like 2" diameter with a 1" threaded connection. Can I possibly hope to pump enough water through this thing to blast my conical clean? Or do I need something more like a 1" diameter?

I made an order a few weeks ago and it was delayed by one item on backorder. I emailed through the site and asked if the rest could be shipped and I would pay the extra postage. I didn't hear back and assumed the backordered item might have come in. I saw the shipping email yesterday and...

I want to know if I can open a butterfly valve and get rid of trub, then harvest yeast a week later without it becoming contaminated. I'm thinking not unless I can spray some Starsan up into the valve to get the sweet wort off it. My motive is to know if I can add the wort hot and use a...