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this is only mysecond starter, I did a 3L starter with mj dry yeast belgium tripel yeast a long time ago Now I'm doing a riwaka kolsch with the white labs pure pitch pack so thought saving some yeast nakes sense so decided to do a 2L starter which is bigger than I need but within the...

I regularly see 10V variation on my 230V mains which is well within expected tollerance. Usually cold days where more people run heaters or arround evening meal times it drops. I had a winter brew with less boil off than i expected where i was in the middle of the boil arround 530pm and the...

The only reason i have put it on a full keg was being in a hurry to cool but as you say issues if there is no beer and it can cause beer line freezing so only an emergency measure to get a keg cool. I normally use air temperature at the top of my kegerator. The STC1000 and my fridges delays...

Im not sure i would put the temperature probe in water as the thermal mass can make it turn off too often or for too long. You need the air in the keezer at your target temperature not a jar of water. Thr air could warm up well before the water changes temperature when the keezer goes off...

Had cortisone and local ansthetic injected into my bad knee by my dr this morning before work which should give me about two months relatively pain free which means a big burst of pipeline refilling brewing and house renovations etc. Takes a week to really start working but then i can brew...

I had this problem and it was because i taped the temperature sensor of the stc1000 to a keg but that let the fridge air and lines warm up and the temperature difference was contributing to the problem. Put the sensor in air and it helped. Also applying a bit of food safe lubricant to the...

A 23L PET carboy Another fast rack and tray. The carboy is mainly for yeast watching lol. I have bucket fermenters and a 10L PET carboy but thought a 23L one would be good and one of my buckets somehow got some scratches so i will retire that and replace it with the plastic carboy. I know...

Kegged my all grain sawmill pale ale clone that had been cold crashing for about 3 days. I was going to keg saturday but my bad knee was extra bad so went back to bed to rest it after filling the 19L and a 10L keg with sodium percarbonate to soak. Today the kegs got the rinse and starsan...

+6G sawmill pale ale clone AG 8615.25

It all depends. If you are bottling then 6G gives you a few more bottles to the batch as you are not constrained to keg size. Not sll brewers use kegs. I use beersmith and have multiple profiles setup. 23L is good if i plan to bottle and i have another profile setup for 19L/5G that allows...

I have done a starter from dry yeast successfully. You do need to do a really big starter to get the multiplication. I did 3L with intermitant shaking. I don't worry about lack of nutrieants as i chuck some yeast nutrieant in my main batches boil but its all grain anyway so not a big...

A tilt hydrometer and a raspberry pi 3 model B+ came during the week. Unfortunately i didn't have big enough microsd card spare so not setup this weekend but that will be remedied in a few days when i have a few more microsd cards delivered. Works alright with my phone but I want the raspberry...

GFCI's aren't intended for this use. Better to use contactors to open both circuits in an e-stop situation I would wire the contactors to require power to their coils to make them conduct (NO contactors) so that the e-STOP removed power from the coils causing both contactors to open. A GFCI is...

If you use a good brand name SCR they is really no need to buy a device with a current rating way over your intended load. A bit of margin is good but no need to go overboard as it adds unnecessary cost. I run 25A SSRs on a 20A load passively cooled setup and have no heat issues. A good...

Yep beer is in fridge but not touching it until at least the antibiotics are done so at least sunday and since they said stiches out wednesday next week ish probably ok by then. For now the kegerator sits neglected. I put some of bottles my 9.5% belgisn tripel in the fridge for when everything...