Recent content by wyorubi

I think you really did it right and definitely fewer safety concers. I did fashion a pretty solid screen enclosure on th outside of the mech. I also load it from the side away from the drive and its tucked in a rather secluded corner of the garage. I ran it for the first time aft build...

If its any consolation the commitment to automating mine happened over a period of 4 years as worry about the loss of fingers finally waned and a free 3/4 hp 1725rpm motor winked at me as I was rummaging around in an old shed for completely other reasons last month. After that i spent about $35...

Agreed. I felt compelled to try something as my motor isnt a sealed unit. Works well

Terrific post. There is just something fulfilling about automating your own mill permanently. In leu of ductwork, a folgers coffee can with the lip and bottom trimmed off works well to channel the crush. A piece of plain white sheet can also be duct taped to the pipe and drape down into the...

Good deal. Just a couple of comments in safety. Your pot is now much closer to the flame, therefore at full blast, the oxygen is getting sucked out of the room and the flame is spread across the bottom of your pot and it may get RED hot on you, this could also scorch things inside and out, so...

The profile looks like its within range of most reasonable styles. Beware that things change monthly with public water systems. Temperatures, concentration of sanitizer, like chloramine. Where I live they push a load of chloramine through in the spring above the normal dose and it'll present...

You mash for an hour, you boil for 60-90 minutes. I always shoot for four hours and have been successful on most occassions by doing four things consistently. By the way my system works entirely by gravity. 1)get hot liquor going right away, 2) try to keep sparge at 30 minutes, 3)turn on the...

That's quite a while to take getting up to boil. I can get 12 gallons up to boiling in a sanke kettle using a turkey fryer in about 45 minutes. It takes roughly 30 to get a 6.5 gallon batch up and running. Measure the distance from burner to bottom of kettle, should be around 3-4 inches...

Consult Palmer's suggested dilution (1 Tbls per gallon) and rest time in HTB, chapter 2.2.3 I believe. Bleach does have a tendency to be appropriate for only a certain amount if time. 20-30 minutes and a good rinse and your in business. Don't forget to hit the lids too. Hope this helps. It...

Jumped in on this late, but have been down this road before. Don't know for sure what solved it, I was using 1-step most of the time and idophor occassionally and brewing extract and partials. My gravities were hovering around 1.000 and I thought evwrything was really finishing great. But one...