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Curt, is all of your brewing equipment gone? If not what’s left?

I don’t believe that any crown cap will work with these style bottles.

I have used plastic mushroom style corks from champagne bottles with these heavy style Belgian bottles. I hammer them in with a rubber mallet and then add a wire cage to hold the cork in place as it naturally carbonates.

That's the most common arrangement. That fan should turn on when the compressor turns on and should turn off when the compressor turns off. There may be a lag time on both starting and stopping. Why not leave that fan in place? The fan is probably AC powered, so if you connect it to your...

Check out the STC-1000+ or https://github.com/matsstaff/stc1000p. It holds 6 profiles with up to 10 setpoints each and it can do ramping between setpoints.

Here is a couple pointers from my past build experience. * Understand how the cooling and electrical system of your side by side work. This will help you decide what you want to keep and what you want to replace. You may be able to use the existing temperature controller to set the freezer...

I am not clear on your post size; you wrote "5 inch by 20 foot". Is that 5" x 5" x 20' or 5" diameter x 20'. What are your posts made out of? Use metal if you can. Buried 5' in the ground seems over kill. I think 3' in the ground would be enough and this will give you an additional 2' of height...

@MR BEER - I use EVA Barrier tubing, for both beer and gas, in the freezer section of my side-by-side kegerator(freezer side)/fermentation chamber (refrigerator side). Add a shelf in the freezer side and you can fit more kegs. I keep the CO2 tank outside and run the gas tubing into the freezer...

@ninkwood - I am not intending to derail your thread, but I am curious as to what you have learned on your pizza journey that started making your pizza "just right". What are the main keys that you have learned on your 20 year pie making sojourn?

I agree. Rouse the yeast and warm it up as stated. From the picture, the darker green at the bottom looks like hop mater, then yeast and trub. If there is still a lot of yeast and the cake hasn't solidified after packaging, poor the remaining contents of the fermenter into a growler or two and...

Sorry for the finger glitch before finishing my post. Take a look at the MAX31889. Accuracy is 0.25 C from -20C to 105 C and is I2C based. Or MAX31888 that has the same accuracy but uses the one wire protocol. You wont need to calibrate a silicon based temperature sensor.

What kind of temperature sensors are you using and how do you plan to calibrate them if/when you have the ability to do so? If you are handy with electronics and single board computers, you can find a few different silicon temperature sensors that have a accuracy of

One thing I have been confused on, is the beer temperature that one should use in priming calculators? I thought I had read years ago that you should use the highest temperature (diacetyl rest) that the beer has seen during fermentation as opposed to the beers current temperature (after cold...

I have found WLP570 to be a very slow fermenter. Give it a minimum of 3 weeks. At warmer temps, WLP570 will generate a nice subtle peppery flavor which I really enjoy. Notice that WLP570 is a low flocculator. My batches never cleared, even over several months. This is yet another reason to give...

A pump is a good option for you and are always handy to have around. But if you don't already have a full size grant and pump, why can't you stop the launter from the MLT when the BK is only partially full. Transfer the BK to the stove top. Then use another pot to continue the launter and...