Recent content by bryan75

I would prefer to stick with all grain so I can adjust to get the fermentables where I want it for the beer I'm going to submit. Only stipulation is it needs to be repeatable to brew on their system.

Bells brewery in Kalamazoo does a annual homebrew competition and when they do it they give the brewers 5 gallons of wort. If I want to adjust that wort for gravity and flavor what would be the best way to do so? Remash with that wort and my grains or run a separate mash and combine the two...

Thanks Fast Rack

Beernik, I am going to run 3 STC's to control each chamber seprately but as you stated the refrigeration guys think if I leave all three circulation fans running all the time they'll cause too much air movement that will cause too much fluctuation in temprature. They feel that if I only cycle...

I'm going to hook up one fermentation chamber and run it with the relay for a few days and then constantly and use a pc connected to a probe to record 24/7 temps so I guess we'll find out. Their telling me I'll see less fluctuation only running it during heating/cooling cycling and it will...

Well after some investigation I figured out how to wire it up to accomplish it. It takes a couple of Allen Bradley relays, one wired to each of the hot's for both cooling and heating, you can find them on Amazon and Ebay with both the base and relay sold in pairs for $25 - $35. I've talked with...

Yes I am planning on having each seperate chamber controlled by it's own controller. So eventually when I've built all the chambers there is going to be a STC-1000 mounted in the front of each one, so they are all independent of one another.

Basically, freezer for lagering or cold crashing one Carboy with some bottles kept cold ready for drinking at all times, save room in household fridge, and a chamber just large enough for one carboy with blowoff tube on each side of it with front door. I want to ferment my beers at a constant...

My fermentation/lagering chamber (freezer) is eventually going to have 2 additional chambers added to it. All 3 chambers will be controlled by seperate STC 100's. The lagering/coldcrashing chamber will be the freezer it's self and I'll maintain it at 34 degrees. Through the collar I am going to...

Got my STC 1000 hooked up and it works great for both heating and cooling for my fermentation chamber (freezer). I would like to hook up a second outlet though that will power a 12v computer fan/convertor that will turn on if the freezer or heater comes on. If I just wire in a second outlet and...