Recent content by phbern

I recently bought the OK Joe Judge grill which I like very much. I haven't used it for smoking since I have the Longhorn smoker, but the Judge could easily do a good job of smoking as well. It's shaped like a smoker and has an adjustable height coal tray so the coals can be a good distance from...

FWIW, I found that the GF counterflow chiller was more trouble than it's worth. I can cool faster with an immersion chiller and it's far easier to maintain!

When I send to do BIAB, I used a thing from Norther Brewer called a Sentinel (got to :20 in the vid below). It's actually to prevent a boil over, but I put my grain bag on it and sparged by pouring over it. Unfortunately I can find them any more, but you could certainly make something similar.

Would love to try this if still available!

Well, I re-flashed using the windows app and that went fine. However, the screen is still blank (though lit). I have discovered that the tracking will update on Grainfather only when I open the Tilt app on my phone. I tried re-setting up the wifi and it now says it has no internet (my wifi works...

I finally got around to updating - I use Grainfather. I went on https://web.brewflasher.com/ and used the Tiltbridge, ESP32 and Titlbridge v.1.2.2 OLED options. The update seemed to go fine, no error messages anyhow. Now, however, there is no display on the device - it's lit, but no text as...

Wow, you guys are awesome with the giveaways! Please count me in!

Wireless meat thermometer sounds great! Count me in! Thanks, Inkbird!

I did something similar to what I think you want to do - just on a smaller scale. As you can see, the wire across the top is sagging and got much worse as the hops grew bigger - they did eventually reach the top. Which presented another problem: getting up there to tend to them. This season I'm...

Thanks, everyone! I made some other adjustment to the recipe and water additions and didn't need the acid anymore. We'll see how it comes out in a couple months!

HI, I have a recipe for a schwartzbier that calls for .035fl oz of lactic acid (88%). I only have citric acid on hand; can I use this instead? What amount? It's obviously a very tiny amount to begin with, but my recipe program (Grainfather) won't let me re-run the water calculations without it...

Inkbird makes a warming mat for seedlings. I use a bungee cord to wrap the mat around the carboy (plastic one)

I have a grainfather g30. I use a hop spider as the recirc outlet filter always got really clogged and gummed up the works.

Just finished All Quiet on the Western Front. Starting Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song by Ted Anthony - about the song House of the Rising Sun

This looks like something you could try: https://www.reddit.com/r/grainfather/comments/xgmr9f/g30_sight_glass_mod/ . Basically, it swaps out the recirc pipe for a sight glass. Doesn't look too difficult.