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Pretty standard. Complete, and includes parts for a few upgrades I made when I used it: a shaft to drive it with a drill instead of hand cranking, and some guards to help direct grain down into the receiving bucket. I don't use it anymore - I just want it out of my closet, and I'd rather...

So today I've been trying to brainstorm a way to implement a proportional electronic valve for flow control at the outlet of my march pump (to automate matching flow rates for the brutus 20 style CRDFM method), and it just occurred to me that it may make sense to throttle the pump itself via...

I hadn't really brewed since last fall - I spent the winter working on my brewing rig and only just recently got it into some kind of usable state. During most of that time, I also wasn't really following things here on HBT... So I returned to find all kinds of new methods and info, including...

Has anyone gotten a HBT decal in a color other than white? I'm beginning to think they don't exist :P So far I've gotten three: Got a white one when I became a paid member a year+ ago, and since black would have gone a lot better with my kegerator, I went and separately paid for another...

So I made a sparge arm finally: I'm still not 100% on the design, especially since the parts are cheap enough that I can make a different one for dirt cheap. I might try one with no pipe-end outlets, but rather a series of drilled holes in an otherwised closed ring of pipe. We'll see when I...

Has it been done before? I'm picturing a standard sight glass setup, but with a hose nipple in place of the compression fitting, and another hose nipple mounted in the eyelet at the top, with the tubing cut to the right length that it is held stretched somewhat tight when put in place. Seems...

I hadn't brewed in a few months due to several factors including moving to a new place, fixing car problems, and a seriously mooching roommate whose contributions to my brewing (both $$ and simple assistance) completely ceased at the same time that his consumption of my beer skyrocketed. But...

Today marks the first time I've ever had a beer ferment all the way down to 1.010-1.011. I've probably never broken 1.014 in the past... So although I'd say I've got a ways to go on really nailing my process down, at least now I know that if I play my cards right I'm at least capable of...

So the other day I went to force carb a keg... Cranked the regulator up to 30 PSI, force carbed, and then about 15 mins later went to crank it down to 12PSI and it wouldn't budge. Wound up taking it apart and unscrewing the knob with a wrench, and there was aluminum lodged in the threads of...

For starters, sorry for the length of this post, I wanted to get all the necessary details in here so it wound up quite verbose. Bear with me! Okay, so I've been brewing AG for nearly a year now and I've got things down to the point where I'm always at least happy with my beers, but naturally...

Summer's approaching - for me that means a bit more free time, a bit more spare cash, and a whole lot more outdoor brewing - which also leads to more brewing-related projects. I know it always helps to see other people's projects (or project ideas, at least) to build the motivation to start...

Now at the risk of discovering I'm the last guy to think of this, I wanted to share this simple trick for cleaning better bottles. The idea popped into my head when I was thinking about how wasteful it is to fill up the entire bottle to the brim with concentrated cleaning solution when only the...

Just recently picked this little guy up. March AC-1A-MD pump, with hose nipples that fit 1/2" ID tubing, and a kynar wet end so it can handle high temps. It's even smaller than I expected, and I doubt it's got anywhere near the power of the bigger march pumps most people use (809's?) but I...

So I got sick 2 weeks ago, it lasted a couple days with flu-like symptoms, and then went away except for a cough. I expected it to go away but it didn't, so yesterday I saw a doctor and got put on some meds. Haven't been able to sample my beer much in those 2 weeks, being on dayquil/nyquil...

last weekend I brewed my first 10-gallon batch - it was an ordinary bitter from Jamil's recipe. OG was about 1.041 (Target was about 1.033... learned some lessons about efficiency with heavily-sparged low-gravity batches, among other things) I used it as a great opportunity to try out a couple...

Since I have a few pounds of hops in the freezer I haven't been paying too much attention to the latest status of the hop shortage. Wasn't until today when I started catching up on current events. Last time I was paying attention it was bad enough, prices were doubled from usual, but it wasn't...

This thing is a spray nozzle on a 6-foot hose with quick-disconnect fitting. There is an in-line diverter valve that goes in-line before your showerhead, so you can just plug the spray hose in and it diverts water to the spray nozzle instead. It cost me $15 at home depot. The diverter valve...

Got the KAB5 banjo burner for xmas, giving it a test run today, doing basically EdWort's Haus Pale Ale, but with ahtanum instead of cascade - got a bunch of them, figured a single-hop APA would be a good way to test them out. Man, does the KAB5 rock. It got my first runnings boiling WELL...

So I did my first brew in the snow yesterday. What an experience. It was also only my 3rd batch with the keggle, 2nd since starting to use the hop bag, first since installing the weldless valve, first with the heat shield around the burner, and first time chilling outside by recirculating ice...