Recent content by Vaevictus

Those look awesome, numbering them, perhaps on the top lip even, shouldn't be too tricky :D

I was inspired by that image and catalyzed by its absence, so i made this google spreadsheet. It's rather customizable. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmGsOePpypKmdFRVR1J5YzBQUXM3Nk5ncE96eUtxQVE#gid=0 I brought it up here for discussion...

Indianmeal Moths? those things are terrible. I had a breakout of those in one house... followed us to the next apartment even though we didn't bring food. They were hiding in a stack of sealed tortillas or something... they were under the food bits in the bag ... and invisible unless you looked...

Yeah. That's one way. I just upped my strike water temp so it'd be correct after including heating the tun.

The headspace shouldn't hurt you with /retention/ as much as you'll have to heat the air in that headspace initially... calibrating your strike temp to compensate for that headspace at varying batch sizes could be tricky.

Oops, right, i got that backwards. I have tun X, what can I mash? :D

So... what's your fermentation SG's looking like? are they in nominal range?

This one came up in my research, but doesn't really answer the question of "my recipe says X pounds of grain, what size tun do i need.", just the inverse. For what it's worth, i think i borrowed the algorithm used there for my calculations. :D

... is a good cooler. very good. Any cooler that claims "Ice for 5+ days" is good enough for a tun.

Mashing twice would potentially add even more than an hour and needs special consideration as to planning: do you drain into your brew kettle? if so, how are you heating the strike/sparge water for your second mash? Another consideration is gear in general: would two 40qt tuns suit you better...

I'd bet money on your crush being problematic, or perhaps you didn't get your strike water fully dispersed into your grains. 152F is a great temp for mashing, but your thermometer might not be accurate... if you actually mashed at 136F it'd be a problem. Your sparge setup seems fine and...

After enjoying the 5/10/13/15.5 gallon gif that was in the thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/how-big-your-mash-tun-needs-123585/ and seeing that the main image got lost and later attached 20 pages deep...

a 40 qt tun is theoretically maxxed at 1.070 at 80% efficiency and 10 gallons. a 52 qt tun is maxxed at 1.092. I doubt either of those would work for most barleywine recipes. It depends on your recipe. You can always mash twice, then your 40qt would get you to 1.140 at 10 gallons. Of...

Do you really need SSR's? I bought a tube of 25A 250VAC mechanical relays for pretty cheap off digikey... (like 1$ a piece or so).

Yeah, my main concern was not to identify the beer inside the keg, but to show ownership and a unique identifier for the keg. The former just incase my corney ended up at a different location where there might be other corneys, and the latter for the purposes of beer tracking via log.