Sight Glasses ?

Gabe · Jan 7, 2007

Hey brewers, I have been looking to add sight glasses to my kettles and wanted to know if anyone has had luck with certain types, DIY, or good one's to use. Anybody have a reason why these are not such a good way to go? Need some info on them. Cheers

anojones · Jan 8, 2007

I just added sight glasses to my HLT and Boil kettle- I like having them, particularly for measuring the sparge water. I made them myself using this link as a guide:

http://www.texanbrew.com/article.php?story=20030625140627793

Dude · Jan 8, 2007

Check out www.ihomebrewsolutions.com , Dennis can set you up with a very nice sightglass that fits your needs. Good price and good customer support.

Dude · Jan 8, 2007

beer4breakfast said:
I know you have his Hop Stopper, Dude. Do you have the sight glass too?

Yep.

cpbergie · Mar 29, 2007

beer4breakfast said:
I just wish he would fix his site so the images don't cover up the words, which makes it impossible to read.

I just happened to see this searching for a sightglass solution. I had the same problem with FireFox, but switch to IE and his sight looks fine.

Lil' Sparky · Mar 29, 2007

I think I'm going to get the thermosight here: http://www.northernbrewer.com/weldless.html

It's $21 and gives you a way to use a standard thermometer through the same coupler. These would be good for my HLT and MLT. I don't think I want/need one on my kettle.

Cookiebaggs · Mar 29, 2007

I wanted one for the boil to get a good measurement of pre-boil wort volume and to monitor the evaporation more closely to hit the final volume.

I ordered an 8 ft. length of 3/8 polycarbonate tube from McMaster last week and made a sight tube for my keggle. I still have 6.5 ft left.

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AleHole · Mar 29, 2007

I just made one for my HLT using this as a guide
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=23002

Axegod · Mar 29, 2007

I have a 1x2 four foot long piece of spruce. It isn't even cleanly sawed...it was broken over my knee. It has gallon and 1/2 gallon marks etched into it using a dremmel. I had to use roman numerals for the numbering since I only had a cut-off disk.

It looks mean - and I like it.

Cheers.

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