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I was thinking about doing a all grain stout, maybe a milk stout with some type of fruit/ maybe coffee, cacao,etc. I am not too familiar cream/milk stout other than they are a little sweet and very creamy. Before I do a bad experiment., What fruits would go or would not go with styles? I'm...

I just want to do some simple temperature control for my 120 volt hot plate. I am going get my water up to temp and then put it on my hot plate to maintain the temperatuerre for HLT batch sparging. Is there something easy that is prebuilt already or do you have to custom build something? THanks

I have a 5 gallon TruBru extract kit of an Irish Stout. I'd really prefer to make a smaller batch of 2.5 gal and have it be stronger than your typical 4% stout. What if I use all of the 5 gallon ingredients but just make a 2.5 gallon batch. So I would just use half of the water. So you...

I have a rectangular 48 quart cooler i was going to make into a mash tun. I plan on doing batch sparging only. I've read different things about whether to make a copper manifold or use SS hose from home depot. I just want to make what will make better beer. I don't mind extra effort or...

I want to add a decent stainless steel ball valve to by brew pot but am having find a hard time finding all of the peices together. I was looking at the Blichmann ball valve that seems nice but it's missing the dip tube that goes on the inside of the brew pot to bring in liquid. I can't find...

I want to starting adding a heating element to my 7.5 gallon kettle. Can I just get a hot water heating elelment at Home Depot or where is the best place to get it? How do wire just directly hook up wires to the plug through ketle? Is 120v element big enough for 7.5 gallon pot? will it...

I would to build long term a single infusion electric brewery that just uses software the PID control,etc. I was thinking of using the BCS 460 does it use software PID? I would rather not have to have PID hardware controllers and then have to power them, and build all of that circuitry...

I am an extract brewer and want to jump into all grain. I don't want to buy equipment that I don't really need for long term plans for a small electric brewing system. Here are my main objectives: 1) brew small batches of 2.5 or 5 gals tops. 2) I would like to use a 120v eletric system for all...