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I'm working on getting my new brewery up and running. Did my first autotune try today. I gave two AT tries, one from 50F to a SV of 165F, and one from 145F to a SV of 165F. The first time, the temp overshot to 208, at which point I shut it down. The second time, it overshot to 195, at...

Here's my plan for my electric upgrade. Please give me any and all feedback. The system will be a 10 gallon model of jKarps's Countertop Brutus 20, sort of, with the addition of a RIMS tube. 1 BK/HLT (15 gal keggle), 1 MLT (15 gal cooler), 1 pump. The thing I'm most proud of is the On/Off...

For my newest incarnation of my brewery, I have a 2 vessel system, (15 gal keggle and 15 gal cooler MLT). I am mashing at 1.5 qt/lb in the MLT, then recircing my full boil volume through the MLT/BK. Finally, I pump all the liquid into the BK, (I shut the return to the MLT). So, like jKarp's...

So, I always heard "1 packet per 5 gallons". Mr. Malty's calculator backs me up for a 1.055 OG batch. Everywhere says I need about 200 billion cells per 5 gallons. Danstar's site says "5-10 million cells per milliliter", which is about 100-200 billion per 5 gallons. But Danstar's site says...

Posted this as a reply to a thread by accident....sorry for the dupe! I'm starting to think about planning my next stage for my brewery. Right now I'm doing propane for HLT/BK, and have a RIMS tube/pump setup with control box. I want to go full electric, put an element in the BK, eliminate...

So I've only had about 4 or 5 forays into the world of RIMS brewing and constant recirculation during the mash. I also fly sparge, which I had never done before. On 2 batches, the grain bed settled down during recirc, so I had about 1-2 inches of clear wort on top of the grain bed, and during...

This is a ball lock keg. I disassembled to clean it, and now I can't figure out how to put it back together. It's really weird. No o-rings on the dip tubes, and a ton of pieces... Gas in threads: Liquid out threads: Liquid out bits, I think...the black grommet thing goes into the...

So I wired up my control box yesterday for my RIMS/Pump setup. I used a ton of Scotchlock connectors: BOY is it ugly! Strained wires, a big rats nest of crap. With so many connections being strained when I close it up, it can't really be safe. I know sooner or later a wire will slip off a...

So I'm getting ready to wire up my RIMS system, and my current plan is to have two switches. Switch one provides power to the pump, and power to switch 2. Switch 2 turns on the heater element circuit. Both are just "On-Off" Toggle switches. I'd love to have it so when I power cycled the...

Some previous owner of this house was GFCI crazy. At least 2/3rds of the outlets are either GFCI or ganged to one. The ones in my garage are GFCI, 15 amp service, 120 volt. I wanna run my RIMS off of them, (4500W 240V element, which will draw somewhere around 9 amps at 120V, if I recall...

So here's my take on the Coors Light homedraft kit. I bought one, drank the beer, filled it with water, and went through about 15 CO2 cartridges, (8 oz, 12 oz, and 16 oz, (both kinds!)), and couldn't get it to hold gas. It would always blow the rubber seal in the reg housing. I tried dimes, I...

So I was poking around my one surviving hop plant from last year (centennial). I found a ton of roots about 1" below the surface extending out in all directions, around 1 cm thick. Imagine my surprise when I pulled at one, and over 5 ft of root pulled up out of the ground, extending WAY out...

So out of 3 rhizomes last year, only one lived through the summer and gave me hops. This year, it's already sprouted and going ape****: I still have snow on the ground in places! Anything I should do right away? Fertilizer already? Water it? I think I wait until it has 1' long bines...

Apparently my bastard regs were feeling really twitchy recently. Normally they change with big temp changes, but normally I'm also watching them pretty well. I was sick for about a week, didn't drink any beer, didn't look at my kegerator. The temp rose, must have risen nearly at the start of...

So, SWMBO wants this for after she finishes growing our baby.... I look at the Leinies website and see it's a 4.5% ABV, 13.5 IBU, pale and wheat beer. I also know that, typically, Shandies are 50/50 beer/lemonade. So what do you think of this: I brew a 9% AB, 27 IBU beer with 2/3 pale...

Aight guys, I've got a party in 5 days, a party I promised to bring 2 kegs to in my Jeep Grand Beerokee. I threw the kegs on the gas tonight to carb up, (no worries about that), and thought, ooh, I'll dry hop the IPA. Like an idiot, I just dumped in ~1 oz of centennial pellet hops, loose...

Here's an idea: http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/100819.html :ban:

So I wanted to make a mobile kegorator, but had limited funds and one careful stipulation: I had to be able to transport the kegerator while either full or empty. See, me and my friends go camping, and I wanted to be able to drink beer at the campground, then transport the kegerator to the lake...

:ban::ban: This is just a bragging post. I hadn't really brewed in months, my pipeline was ridiculously low, especially since all I like to drink is my own beer. I had 4 kegs in the kegerator and nothing on hand. Then, I effed up with my gas lines, hooked them up to higher pressured kegs...

The two ways I know are: a) tap locks, which are spendy and from reports don't work all that well, (if you pull, they still dispense) b) put a lock on fridge, and pop off liquid lines each time you finish pouring a beer, (which seems like a helluva lot of work). I figured this could help some...