Recent content by CavAv8tr

Nice. I might have to try that.

I do exactly that. Use the pump the circulate the wort through the chiller in a cooler with ice water. Add more ice as necessary. Ice is cheaper than running my hose here. Beer tastes good. I start circulating wort 15 minutes adding ice to sterilize.

Think I will look at rigging up something then. The fan never really did work out...pulled the beer inside for secondary fermentation. It was sitting at 5.4% when I transferred it Saturday and now has a nice layer of yeast on the bottom (I keep the house at 72).

It's LED, first gen INOVA; but we are going down the rabbit hole.

I have tactical LED Flashlight that gets Hot AF! I might just turn it on and throw it in there. I did caveat my response with (or used to).

Have you thought about an LED Bulb? They generate a significant amount of heat (or used to) and should withstand the cycling better.

I don't think so. I picked up with a bunch of other stuff from a guy getting out of Home Brewing (seems his wife put her foot down). He used it in his chamber. Honestly I never plugged it in a let it just run, figured it worked.

Awesome. Weird that your light bulb does a better job than a little space heater. I might have to rig that up. I am not sure why the heater is not coming on (though I have seen it run on the thermostat).

Nottingham

Team, Quick question, I have a Porter going in my fermentation chamber (nicely vigorous the first couple of days). My chamber is a coffin freezer with a thermostat controller plugged into a little space heater (thermo is set to heat and 68 degrees F). Temps here dropped from the 40/50s to the...

I did exactly that with mine yesterday. Just ran the hot Wort through the chiller with the pump (chiller was in the cooler), then added two 10# bags of ice and some hose water. Crashed the Wort from boiling to around 90F very quickly. However the last 20 degrees took a long time. I actually gave...

Curious to know what freezing the bottles before bottling does.

The Centennial Ale on this forum for a block party in August. First All Grain brew - going to use a Robobrew - wish me luck.

It's regular capped bottles.

Thanks guys. Guess I will try another week, then chill a couple and see what happens. CavAv8tr.