Recent content by Minbari

cool thanks. :)

damn......so if I do as you suggested and pour off the beer to just before the sediment, will it still be drinkable or this a ruined batch?

no, trub was left behind from the brew. this is purely yeast fallout from the fermentation. this is the first wheat beer I have done, so I am just curious of that much yeast is normal. I did do a starter on the yeast and I understand this is a pretty crazy active yeast. plus Hefe is supposed...

so I brewed the northern brewer hefe kit. all grain. used the Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan yeast. fermented at 65 F for 2 weeks and hit the FG. it was a 5 gallon batch and had about 4-5" of yeast slurry on the bottom. I mixed this in when I bottled it and now each bottle has about 1" of...

I used a bi-metal jigsaw blade on mine. Took about 5minutes

He is circulating air from the freezer into the tower with PC fans

I got my (2) 16 qt stainless pots for $8 each, with lid. Allows me to do split batches or just the same batch in two containers.

Not likely. It uses PWM, being varied by the knob. So although the avg current will be less the lower the knob is turned, it wont limit current on the pulses.

Yup, easy fix. :)

Most of those are DC. If your lighting transformers are AC, they wont work.

That is right, a regular SSR is either on or off. A pot wouldn't do anything more than turn it on and off within the hysteresis of the input circuit

Shouldnt get so hot you cant touch the heatsink. I have (2)1500watt elements in my bk, each with a 10 amp ssr. I use a pair of pc cpu heatsinks with an 80mm fan on each. Barely gets warm

Not just a good idea. Line voltage will be on the gate and blow the PID controller without it.

Looks incredible

Schematic says 1/2" pipe thread