I'm glad you responded to that post because I've been looking for your thread again for awhile. I had subbed it a while ago but passed it by so many time cause its titled brew stand. Your big beard profile pic caught my eye so I reopened this thread and sure enough this was the one I was looking for haha.
Yeah, I tried to change the name of the thread after the fact... no luck.
Im just starting to put together my e-herms and I really liked how you did yours! I'm also going the keggle route so this thread was a great read.
I have a couple questions for ya. Hopefully they haven't been asked or talked about yet...its been a while since I read all the way through this.
What made you decide to do a back to back setup? I went 50 amp by default. I could only find a 50A GFCI breaker when I needed it. (read, when my buddy was available to install it) I'm really glad I went with the 50 amp B2B panel. It is probably the "Best" choice for a keggle setup. I heat my HLT to mash temp and leave it alone. I also heat strike water in my Boil Keggle. I use some of that water to pre-heat the MLT and dump it. Then immediately fill with my strike volume from the Boil Keggle. This way, my HERMS coil in the HLT stays covered and I have PLENTY of water for sparging later on.Also have you done any 10 gallon batches and if so how did it go? Yes! I regularly make 12 gallon batches with it. That is 12 gallons of wort. I end up with somewhere between 11-11 1/2 gallons in the fermentor. If I am brewing a BIG beer, I will brew only 6 gallons because of MLT limitations on the Grainbill.Any difficulties? I'm thinking things like running out of water in the hlt, too full a boil kettle, etc. see above coment...One last question would be is there anything you would change about your setup or how you did things? I get this question quite a bit. I would have to say, not really... I have since added a few little things. Mainly a hop screen from StainlessBrewing.com I got the largest one. I will see if I can post some pictures of things I have added to my setup. Also, I have added a CFC fully outfitted with CamLocks. I have an attachment I can lock on that has a port for a thermometer probe. It then goes out to a silicone hose and into the fermentor. This way it is EASY to dial in chilling temps on the CFC
I have all my pumps, hoses, kegs, and a lot of my hardware. Been deciding on if I want to buy kals control panel kit or not.YES!!!! BUY KAL'S KIT AND BUILD IT! It is SOOO MUCH FUN to build it and tell your buddies that you built it!