Recent content by Sbear55

I just switched to All Grain myself. Converted an igloo cooler to a mash tun with a bazooka screen, bulkhead, and ball valve from bargain fittings. I already had two 5 gallon stock pots and I'm doing three gallon batches right now. Even If I did 5 gallon all I'd need is a larger boil kettle...

Just bottled the first batch I used the inkbird for. This was also my first temp controlled fermentation. From holding at 64, to bumping up a couple degrees a day to 72 to encourage the yeast, to cold crashing at 34 degrees the controller was flawless. Sure it isn't automatic but it only takes...

I found it interesting that they upgraded the Darkstar to the SQ14 style banjo burner which is a huge improvement over the jet burner but then put out the Center of Gravity tower with the old jet burners. Would have been nice to see the same SQ14 banjo burners in the tower.

m00ps - Have you posted the Orange Juice IPA recipe yet? Please do so!

Removing the headache of trying to deal with ambient temp is awesome. I'm excited about it and my first temp controlled batch is only 72 hours into fermentation!

Mine has been holding a zombie dust clone at 64 degrees perfectly since Friday. Free full size fridge/freezer plugged into the cooling terminal and a seedling heat under the carboy plugged into the heating terminal. Notable that once the temp of the fridge was stabilized it hasn't had to...