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I'm building a 50A back-to-back eHERMS panel, with parts from ebrewsupply.com among others. I have two questions for you electrical gurus. 1. What gauge wire do I need for the grounds? The ebrewsupply.com schematics do not list gauge for these, but the do for all other wiring. 2. Regarding...

Pretty exciting week for me, I just made the last big orders for my eHERMS control panel. It's a pretty standard Kal clone, with parts from ebrewsupply.com. 50 amps, so I can do back-to-back batches. One thing I added, which I haven't seen in other builds, is a kilowatt hour meter...

I've been gradually upgrading to a Kal-inspired eHERMS rig. Currently, my 3 keggles are set up (aside from the heating elements) and I brewed my first batch utilizing 1 pump and a propane-fired HERMS, gravity feeding into the boil kettle during the sparge. I also have a Mark II Keg Washer...

So right now I'm trying to decide whether or not to have a connector for the power in on my control panel. I'm trying to build a 50A panel, so I'd need to use the CS6375 and CS6364 combination of plug and receptacle. I'm sure you guys know how damn expensive these things are. So if I decide to...

So I'm planning out my eHERMS build, and one of the main features is I want the ability to do back-to-back brews. The functionality of the thing is based on Kal's setup, with some minor differences in the control panel, but it's going to be the same (heating elements in BK and HLT, 2 pumps...

I'm putting together parts for a HERMS rig and I'm trying to decide on a hop strainer, which in turn, will somewhat dictate my cooling options. Right now I'm interested in the Hop Stopper that you can find on Kal's website. Does anyone have experience with it?

Attached is my schematic for my ebrew setup. I hope to build it when I come back from deployment, this time next year. This is a stripped-down Kal-clone, modified for back-to-back batches. It will fire 4500W elements in keggles, ultimately going for 10-gal batches. I have a few questions...

This is my first attempt at a recipe creation. My 4th AG batch. I especially want to hear idea on when to add the lactose. I found another recipe on here that adds it at 10 minutes, but I've also seen people do it after primary fermentation. Boil Size: 6.72 gal Post Boil Volume: 5.72 gal...

So my parents sent me a $100 gift certificate to northernbrewer.com for my birthday, and I'm trying to decide what to use it on. Here's what I have already. -Igloo cooler HLT and MLT -Keggle BK with the normal fittings -STC-1000 ferm chamber -15g conical and a bunch of Better Bottles...

I've been out of town for the last 7 months or so and I have a corny keg that's about 1/3 full of a porter I brewed some time in October. It was only 5.5% ABV or so, but I'm wondering if it's still good. The keg is still holding pressure, and it was always on CO2, so I doubt it would have...

464458_466106090072263_1492231694_o by eighty2fifty1, on Flickr SWMBO got me a present, they're pretty badass. She said it was a huge PITA trying to find someone to engrave them though.

I was kicking around the idea of using Arduino to heat and possibly cool my fermentation chamber. It's 60 cf of space, so I was planning on using a pair of 100 watt light bulbs for heat. I think it would be pretty cool to have it hooked up to the internet and be able to control it remotely...

The SWMBO is moving in with me in a few weeks, and she doesn't like the idea of her pantry being full of fermenting beer. 004 by eighty2fifty1, on Flickr So I decided to make a fermentation chamber to put in my man cave (the garage). It had to be big enough to hold several of those 15-gal...

So like manyof us, I've been doing 5 gal batches with specialty grains for the last year. I'm going to be in charge of brewing all the beer for my wedding in August, and instead of building an AG setup, then learning how to use it effectively, I plan on making a keggle and doing 10 gallon...

So to pass the time on deployment, I've been planning my electric rig. I plan on slowly piecing it together throughout the next year, and hopefully be brewing on it before next deployment. I started off by wanting to build a Kal clone, but after I started pricing everything out, I decided to...

I'm in the designing process of an electric Kal-type setup, but I'd like to make mine a little simpler. My question is, do I need to use a PID to control the element in the boil kettle, and if not, what other control options are out there? I was thinking that I could set up some sort of...

Hi guys, I'm James. Currently in Oak Harbor, WA, but from Lincoln, NE. I got into homebrewing in February, so far I've run 10 5-gal batches of extract-based beer. I built this kegerator shortly after bottling my first batch. As you can see, it's got room for growth. I can get at least 5...