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I was building a new indoor electric setup on the cheap but it had been probably 10 months since I last brewed and first brew on new setup after finished fermenting is a bad batch. I can't tell if its fusels or wet cardboard from oxygen. there are a whole number of risks I took just to get a...

Would a hop sock or muslin bag work for the cocoa powder?

After spending an hour reading on the difference between cocoa (unsweetened powder) and cacao (generally nibs) - has everyone who had made this strictly used the powder in the boil? Would anyone use nibs instead (in boil or fermenter) ? Everyone who has made this seems to like it so I don't...

Wondering what the OP decided to do with the 2362 controller? I bought two (on purpose, not by accident ) and am replacing two fried MYPIN TD4's on a PVC panel. Because the PVC panel cover is a bit thicker than metal, it keeps those little tabs permanently depressed, allowing it to slide in and...

I saw a similar suggestion but this would likely work for a metal panel but I think the thickness of the plastic in my PVC panel (Cantex 12x12x6) make that option a bit more difficult

Update in case anyone searching in future looks for a solution... I took some of the advice here and got a piece of scrap metal I snipped a piece to cover the whole. The harder part was, I then tried to cut out the proper size hole in the center of that - ending up with a kind of homemade...

That might work. I was also thinking about those plain outlet/receptacle covers with the whole center rectangle cutout but it didn't fit entirely there and that plastic might be too brittle to try and cut & shape. But even still I was hoping for something with an even smaller footprint than...

Well I searched for other threads and found plenty warning not to cut a hole too big but couldn't find any (like me) that actually did. Using a PVC box for my panel and everything else cut great on front (still waiting for parts to do outlets etc on bottom and heatsink on top). But cutting...

That's what initially got me thinking - why an extension cord.. why not just tap right into the receptacle box and hard-wire from in there.... But that brings me back full circle to my starting point again. Plus I still need to factor in GFCI somewhere..

I kick myself every time I say "dryer vent".... no idea why I keep saying -vent- but I mean to refer to the dryer outlet... I found myself repeating it again in person this morning talking about plugging electrical panel into my dryer vent and they had no idea what I was talking about

I've read through the past few years worth of posts regarding dryer outlets and re-utilizing them but I haven't found any discussions that directly addressed my situation... Ok, I have a 40 amp breaker servicing my dryer in my basement. I know others have asked - the dryer outlet has 4-wire...

It won't necessarily hurt them or stagnate them too much - at least for this year in the planter pots right? These pots are roughly the size of your 5-gallon buckets by the way.. maybe a bit wider at the mouth but certainly as deep

I bought some established hop crowns and have put them in a large 18" planter each. Can I keep them in a planter for their entire "life" or is it essential to get them in the ground? Or can I keep them in a planter/container, but a specific shape or size?

Both great points and help. I followed up and double checked my measurements (when I wrote the post I was flustered and just winging it) Beersmith had my recipe with a 1.064 at 6.5 gallons .... I ended up after boiling off with 1.073 at just a hair under 5 gallons. I went through the...

Or is that reading supposed to be just 1.030 ? (Instead of 1.300)

Ok so today I boiled outside and it was chilly and very windy. I lost quite a bit during the 90 minutes just to boil off. After cooling and transferring to fermenting bucket I had my desired gravity at 1.070 but was about 1.5 - 2 gallons short. I started getting desperate and trying to suck...

I had been trying a wrench but it wouldn't move. If it was anything else, I would spray some lube on the threads to loosen it but not sure what is and isn't safe to use with gas in there. Ya everything else connected to that regulator is taped but that attachment was like that and its how it...

I'm adding a second line for my homemade kegerator/fridge with a second pass through. To get gas to both kegs eventually I will buy a dual regulator to adjust gas differently between kegs. But for now I just have a Y-shaped adapter that threads into my single regulator. Problem is, I'm have...

Oops stupid phone tyoe-o. I hadn't noticed one beer is just over a week and second is 3 days (not 39 ha!)

I have two beers fermenting in buckets in my basement (one is just over a week, the other about 39 days) and furnace in my house acting up so I plugged in space heater to point at buckets and got temp at about 70 got colder at night so I turned up heat a notch and pushed heater closer but in...