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Im ready to fire up my 2bbl brew kettle, however Id like to find a better option for fermenting and long term storage. For the last few years Ive been using sankey kegs. I would love to go for a stainless vessel, like an open head drum, but they are pretty spendy. I don't have the time to...

I've reached a point where using 15gallon snakes misbecoming a PITA for long term storage of sour beers. I've been thinking about trying new HDPE blue barrels. I know we've all seen the chart in our favourite badly written sour brew book, but I notice that chart does not speak to the...

I'm just wondering if anybody has used blue food grade plastic barrels for long-term storage for sour Ales. Im at a bottleneck where the most expensive thing for me is storage for aging. it would sure be a cheap way for me to keep going. Tia

Halfway through my second to last brew I blew a 5500watt element and lost a mechanical relay on the same circuit at the same time. I replaced both on the spot and went about my business and finished the day. Warming up the hot water for my last batch the SSR cooked a post right off. Replaced it...

Just switching over from propane to electric, Im noticing the foam of the hot break to be very aggressive as opposed to propane. If past propane brews if I knocked down the boil foam with 5-10 sprays from a bottle, and it may come back once or twice more, but then it collapse and goes into...

I have recently added a second syl 2352 to control a separate element. I did basic set up and did not auto tune it. It runs great. Get to temp shuts off comes on when the temp drops. My old one fires on sparadically non stop 10 degrees either side on sv. I have auto tuned it and it has done this...

I've wired 2 30a 240v circuits to power 2 5500w elements. These are being controlled by 2 mechanical definitive purpose contactors and a ssr being controlled by the 2352. I set up everything as laid out on the electric brewry site. I powered everything up and it all works fine except when the pv...

For the last 4 year i have brewed in a repurposed barn. it works but its not ideal. Its laid poorly because of the beams, the main sink drain is run on the floor, plugs are not where they are needed, floor drains are in the wrong spot, the list goes on. This spring Im building a new house and I...

Back when my mash tun was direct fired I would often get a dark colour (and weird twang that would get exponentially worse with time) from my blonde recipe. After I switched to a heat exchanger it went back to being yellow. My last batch i used an electric element in my kettle, but didn't know i...

I have a ITC 100VH that won't put out more the .5 VDC, my relay requires 3VDC minimum can anyone tell me what setting to change to increase the voltage output to run my ssr?

I have a 55 galon mash tun the is a PIA to scoop empty. I tried a shop vac last time and it worked great, but i had to empty it four times. I was thinking of using an old 55 gallon plastic drum and putting the hose from vac to one side of the lid and running a second vac hose from lid in drum...

Im looking to get my hands on 5-10 lbs of well aged low aa hops in Canada. Or at least a source in the states that will ship to Canada. Thanks

I was just reading the instruction manual for the blichmann G2 boilermaker. It says the max lauter rate for a 100 gallon pot is .75 gallons per minute. I have an original boilermaker 55 gallon and it's max lauter is .55 gpm. I thought the 100 gal boilermaker was the same width and false bottom...

I have a kettle that has a hot water tank element in the middle. I would like to remove it and relocate it lower on the vessel. I can't seem to find anywhere that will sell a single 1" ss NPS hex head plug. Ive found one really expensive 1" ss NPT, Would that work with my existing 1" NPS ss nut...

Getting ready to brew my first sours soon. I have come across the same recipe in different quantities dozens of time and just wanted to see what has worked for everyone here. Most recipes tend to be pilsner malt mixed with wheat unmalted or malted. Ive seen the ratio go from 85%pils/15%wheat to...

I'm looking to build something for a pump stand and I saw some people enclosing thiers in ammo, tool and electrical boxes.just wondering if there are any heat build up concerns with out putting in a vent fan?

I fired up my control panel last night ran thru the electric brewry start up instructions for the auber sly 2352 pid controller. Everything works but between the the rtd probe and the pid the probe measured temp seems to be going down as the water got hotter. Started with 100f water heated to...

I have an Electric Brewery style relay for my control panel Maine Power I have 120 across the coil but it won't engage I can manually push it in and everything lights up and works fine I'm wondering if there's anything I might have missed that's caused this condition other than it being a...

Recently i have installed a jaded style wort chiller for my brew stand. It worked so well i decided to ditch my direct fire burner for my tun and picked up a second pump to run water from HWT through the the outer jacket of the chiller and use it as a heat exchanger for my recirculating mash...

Ive been using alakozy black tea for about a year. Its very strong but i find it make a grew buch. About two months ago my wife quite drinking it saying that it had changed and was disgusting. I paid no mind as my buch and sweet tea still tasted right as rain. Until i opened a new box. the tea...