Recent content by smittygouv30

Hey all, I'm in the process of having my house built. I have a 4 tap keezer but want to have it in the basement out of view on the main floor. I want to run a PVC or something while the walls are open for easy install later once it's all closed and the house is built. I'm planning to run 4...

So I have recently moved into a town home where the only available 240 outlet is 3 prong. I have a perfectly good e-herms control panel that I was using in my previous home that was 4. It's not worth me re-wiring the home/electrical panel as I will only be here for 1 year. However I would like...

I just ordered 5 different extracts from capella. I'm going to brew 6 gallons of this stuff and use the ringwood yeast for fermentation. I'll then divide this up into six 1 gallon secondaries using no extract, popcorn extract, vanilla cupcake, hazelnut, frenchtoast, and graham cracker. If they...

That makes a lot more sense. Of course my PIDs are located right above the SSR and heat sink too. At this point ill run the risk of having to replace a PID a little sooner than planned. Thanks for the inside kal. Corey

I pretty much followed Kal's guide but decided to use a single-gang box instead of 2-gang. I felt it would look cleaner mounted to the side of the cooler. http://www.theelectricbrewery.com/heating-elements?page=3 I did have to bend the heating element a little bit to prevent it from...

Not a bit. I've reached in to touch right after the MASH/sparge after it's turned off. I definitely wouldn't even say its hot, its warm. Also, I'm using a pretty small cramped enclosure and still no problems. I'm not sure if the SSR temp issue is overplayed or if i'm just getting lucky. It's...

I put together the water filtration system finally. Cost for everything was $60.85. It was very simple to put together. I got the RV hose and filter on Amazon and the rest from Lowes. It was a fun little project that should save me money (buying water) and my back (lugging buckets of water). -Corey

I did without issues. I soldered and used heat shrink wrap. Accuracy was spot on once I fired up the PID. Corey

Update... I got some vinyl lettering to go on the keg. I think it adds a little something to it. I should have polished it but I didn't think i had it in me.

Code me. I love keg connection!

Newest addition to the Hop Rehab home brewery! For now i'll still be boiling with propane, but I plan to be moving back to NY soon, and then it's 100% electric :)

Good point. I too have an external on/off switch for the alarm. This had reduced the aggravation of the alarm tripping. For the most part I always have the timer running so there isn't much of an issue but I have found that to be annoying during the sparging and cooling processes when the timer...

To me it was a no brainer to go with the jsl-71 mostly for the reason that it better matches the look of the auber PIDs. The asl-51 is all red where the jsl has the same, red top green bottom, color combo. I can't comment much on the functionality difference as I've never used the ASL-51. I can...

At this point you might as well just hang onto that last bottle and save it as a memory of your award winning beer. A trophy of sorts. Right now I have one bottle from all 17 batches I have made on top of my refrigerator. I plan to eventually make a nice shelf to display them. I started doing...

I went with a digital picture frame on my control panel and use my brewery logo as the displayed image. It also has a digital clock on it which has proved to be suprisingly useful even though I also have an auber timer. With the extra space you could always upgrade to the bigger auber PIDs. 1/4...