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I built Kals ElectricBrewery about 9 years ago with converted kegs for the HLT and BK and my main regret is not inverting my boil kettle. I went with a large plastic food safe drum as a mash tun but it’s WAY too big. Have an extra keg so now I’m trying to decide if I should turn it into an...

Hey all. I moved to a new house and needed a longer cord for my Kal clone e-brewery control panel so selling the old one. (Edit: Four Foot) 4 prong 30amp/220v dryer cord with a NEMA L14-30 Leviton twist lock plug on the other end. Perfect for anyone building a Kal clone and using an...

EDIT: Disregard. This is the thread I was looking for. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f170/voltmeter-ammeter-481979/ Awhile back I built a Kal e-brewery control panel. The volt meter never worked and when my friend (with a Doctorate degree in space robotics) tried to help me fix it, we fried...

Anyone seen a keezer thread with a design such that the gas manifold gauges are visible/accessible/controllable without opening the lid? I would like to incorporate them into the coffin somehow but would much rather work off of someone else's design if it has already been done. Any thread links...

I'm on the hunt for a solution to the indoor brewery problem of potential spills. Even though I own the house, I don't want to install a permanent floor drain. Right now, I constantly move 3 of those boot trays around under my brew stand and dump them out as needed. Does anyone know of a...

Why don't they make glass carboys with 4" openings? All of the advantages of glass but significantly easier to clean (or dry hop)...there have got to be larger size stoppers in the world so what's with the BS 2" hole?

Im making 10gal of a Kona Fire Rock clone American Pale Ale. Whats everyone else have planned?

Hey all, This problem got fixed but not without a $75 electrician visit and a 2 day delay on brewing my Belgian Quad. For background info, instead of the spa panel, I had an electrician install a 50 A panel in my garage and I put in a 30 A GFI breaker for my kal panel. This gave me some extra...

So..... I love stainless... but I also love my wife. And she may or may not have me on a budget that precludes more stainless purchases. I had planned to buy parts for a DIY hop spider using a 4" PVC coupler, 4 x threaded metal rods, nuts to hold the rods, and a dryer vent hose clamp to hold...

I brewed 10gal of this bourbon oak aged imperial stout and did half on cherries and half w/ vanilla bean. At a tasting where I had brought both, we tried mixing them and everyone agreed it was even better mixed. I had planned to keg carb with co2 and then bottle it all to age, but the carb is...

Our home brewing club (Rhode Island Fermentation Technicians-RIFT) holds monthly meetings and each meeting focuses on a different topic. Any of you have ideas for topics we might want to include in a future meeting? Some examples of past topics: Judging beer competitions Holiday Beers Upcoming...

I just brewed my second all grain batch. I have been buying grain for one recipe at a time, milling it at the LHBS, and brewing within a week or two. I have one 16 gal barrel and 3 x 5gal buckets with airtight locking lids...all empty. I asked Santa for a grain mill so hopefully that Xmas...

Would prefer to sell it locally in-person (RI/MA/CT)and avoid the hassle of mailing it, but i guess i could pack/mail it if you pay actual shipping. It is used but I put some real effort into cleaning it up and blew it out with my compressor. It really does look new and there is absolutely...

Working on a Kal clone but one of my power supplies was bad. These things are like $6 on ebay but chinese delivery takes forever. Anyone have an extra I can buy for $15 mailed USPS first class to RI? Hoping someone double-ordered by accident and has an extra one lying around. To be clear...

My electrician should be installing my panel/gfci/outlet for my control panel. Until now, it has never been plugged in or turned on. Some things are obvious, like put water in the bk/hlt so I dont accidentally dry fire the elements. Any other suggestions? My plan is to leave it closed...

I just spent about 45 mins trying to find a thread with a parts list and step-by-step for using the "$50 Home Depot Spa Panel" to add GFCI between a 50A 4-prong outlet and my Kal build control panel... Q1: Is it just me or is the "$50" spa panel now $65? Q2: What else do I need? I asked...

I am mostly into the 8-10 percent alcohol imperial stouts and quickly realized, as I was designing my e-brewing system, that I couldn't fit enough grains into a keggle, to make 10 gal of beer in the style I want. This leads me to the MLT. I have a 114L/30gal food grade barrel. I have a...

Well, this is the direction I went for my keggle tops. (Sorry for the blurry photos. I got frustrated trying to focus on shiny metal.) After I cut the tops off, I ground them down a bit more to remove any sharp edges. Then, I used my lathe to turn handles out of cocobolo (if you're going...

I'm building Kal's e-brewery and ran into a snag. Was planning on punching my keg holes for the elements this weekend but when I did a test-punch on another piece of metal, the 1 1/4" Greenlee made a hole that is larger than the entire element bracket (1 11/16"). Isn't it supposed to be...

So I was at Lowes the other day and noticed this http://m.lowes.com/mt/www.lowes.com:80/pd_319477-1281-7224PRBWWD3_4294936608__?productId=3172913&Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar%7C1&pl=1&currentURL=?Ns=p_product_qty_sales_dollar%7C1&facetInfo= It is called (in English) an 72"H 72"W 24"D steel...