Recent content by PilotCline

Hello, I bought the Kegco K309SS triple tap unit a few months ago. I finally got around to hooking it up a few weeks ago. Just bought a new house so that has kept me busy with other stuff. I have all 3 kegs hooked up. Commercial Fat Tire, and 2 cornys of homebrew goodness. The Fat Tire and...

I had that same idea, but I figured I didn't need to go that extreme for my last batch brewed at the end of Nov. Maybe I will try it in the summer.

I have made a 5/8 inch 50ft immersion chiller. See here https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/lowes-having-great-sale-5-8-inch-copper-pipe-477182/ I put that into a homer bucket and fill the bucket with ice then top off with water. When I turn on the cold water to the chiller, it goes through this...

I just recirculated the boiling wort through the hoses and chiller for last 15 minutes of boil. Easy clean. At flame out turn on the cold water to chiller and continue recirculating until down to almost pitching temp, then straight into the fermenter. I just let the hose from the chiller to the...

That has been available since the day of release. It is the full size tower that we would like a mount for.

Yeah, I was concerned also about having the therminator above the electrical cord on the bottom of the tower. Not sure if that is water proof or not. In the end I decided that I did not want to find out! Stool works great for me and keeps the possibility of leaking hoses away from the expensive...

I also have the full tower. I am curious how you mounted the Therminator? Could you post a pic? I tried U bolts and finally gave up. I could not get them the correct size to mount it how I wanted. Also it would have made removing it to dry a huge PITA. I ended up buying a $12 step stool from...

Also I did a very thorough cleaning of all equipment before I began. That took a couple of hours, but as that was just because it was new and I wanted all manufacturing oils and what not cleaned off. Now that the initial cleaning has been performed I will not need to worry about that again. So I...

It was around 4-5 hours. I was not really paying that much attention to what time I started, so I am not 100% sure. For me the hardest part is clean up. In this new house I do not have a large laundry tub, so I am relegated to using the very small kitchen sink. PITA

OK, the system works great. This was my first all grain batch larger then 1 gallon. I heated the water to about 165 and doughed in. The brewmometer on the mash tun was calibrated with a lab thermometer. It showed 150 after lots of mixing. 10 minutes later it was still 150. After dough in I...

I've been reading that and a few threads since day one. However, I have not seen the questions that I asked addressed in any of the threads. If anyone has any tips please let me know. I will start in the next few hours and was hoping to not have to figure it out all myself! The big question for...

OK, I have my setup complete. Tomorrow is brew day. Anyone here use this yet and have any advice? A few questions that come to mind are how much temperature is lost in a 10 gallon batch when doughing in? I figure that I will be running around 13 gallons of water for this, so just trying to get...

Looks like I will try the December version for my next batch.

After reading this, John got a hold of me. They sent a new kettle and took back the bent one. Shipping was taken care of by Blichmann for both the new kettle, and the return. Makes me with that I just emailed them first before trying to go through the dealer. I am again one happy customer!

As per the cosmetic defect kettles. I ordered the 20 Gal back in April or so from AIH. It was flawless. I could not find anything wrong anywhere. I ordered a 15 Gal in the beginning of August. I was hoping that I would have the same luck. Well, not so much. I immediately noticed a large dent...