Recent content by Junior_Brewmaster

Thanks for all the replies. I don’t plan on doing a secondary. I use a conical fermenter, so when I hit my final gravity, I will remove the yeast bottle on the bottom and add the spices. Thanks again.

Absolutely, Yes.

My recipe says to add an extract (secondary 10.0 days). Does this mean add it to the secondary for 10 days or wait 10 days to add it?

Thanks for the replies. Now, do I maintain the boil for the additional 20 minutes or turn the heat off and let temperature decay?

I’m brewing, or trying to brew, an IPA. The recipe says, for the hop addition, “Steep/Whirlpool 20 minutes”. Do I add this for the last 20 minutes of the boil or do I add this at the end and steep it for an additional 20 minutes?

Thanks CU_tony. I'll try and attach a picture here. Ok, I think it's attached. I'm new at this so I'm a little slow. There are 4 wires coming from the breaker but as you said the heater only needs 3. I'd like to keep the gfi protection but I don't know how to wire this. Thanks for any help.

I have a 5500 watt heater in a brew pot controlled manually through an SSR. I have a gfci 30 amp breaker with 4 conductor cable out, 2 hots, a ground and a neutral. The heater only uses the two hots and a ground. What do I do with the neutral wire. Left disconnected, the gfci breaker trips...

I have an issue with my electric brewery and it's obviously in the wiring. The system stays in alarm. I've gone over the wiring several times and found a few issues but my PIDs stay in alarm so I'm hoping for some help from the experts out there. This is my PID for my HLT. My Boil and Mash...

I'm such an idiot. I appreciate all the responses. I ordered the relay that was recommended. I installed it without looking at it. Surely it couldn't be a DC relay..........well expletive. It was a DC relay. I bypassed it and repowered just fine. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get the PIDs...

I just finished wiring my electric brewery. I added a safe start relay just for the added safety. The safe start relay prevents powering up the system if either the pump switches are on or the heater select switch is not in off. That prevents running the pumps dry or turning on a heater before...