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I think I see what I did now. I'll revise when I get a chance and update. Thanks!

I've wired up an STC-1000. Seems pretty straight forward. Powers up fine, displays temps etc. I have a receptical wired only for cooling. I can hear the relay click when it hits the temp but nothing happens. No power to the cooling leads ( I checked with a meter right at the controller...

Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like I should consider changing my setup a bit. Currently when I'm heating from mash to mash out I suspend my bag just off the bottom of the kettle to avoid burning it. As a result, the grains are held tightly together (until temp is reached and bag is let...

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What is a stirred ramp up? Can you explain for those of us new to this? (Just brewed my 1st BIAB this weekend) Thanks!

Wish I could chime in with another jawbreaker review but I complete ruined mine by severely oxygenating it in a siphoning mishap. Tastes Awful! First time I've ruined a whole batch. From the reviews sounds like I may have to try again!

Thanks for all the responses!

Would this be true for lagers too as I believe they don't ferment as rapidly as ales?

No problem, adding ice as fast as I could make it only got me to about 50 so even if I had known to go colder I wouldn't have gotten there. I think it all ended up good. Huge improvement over room temp anyway.

Well I bottled last night. After two days of somewhat of a cold crash (could only get to about 50 degrees keeping the fermenter in an iced water tub) most of the hops had settled but not all. I'm guessing if I had gotten it colder they would have all settled. Anyway worked for the most part I...

Thanks!! So I'm shooting for around 45-50F then right? I'll see if I can rig up some ice cooled bath and get those hops to settle.

After reading lots of options for dry hoping, I decided to just toss my 2 oz of pellet hops in the 5 gallon secondary with the expectation that they'd settle. It's been 5 days now and almost all of the hop mass is still hanging strong on top of the beer. Wondering if these will settle in...

Hi! I'll be doing a 5 gallon batch of pumpkin ale which I've heard due to all the pumpkin crud and stuff should use a secondary. Not sure why it can't sit on that stuff a couple weeks, but, my only 5 gallon fermenter will be tied up with another brew at that time. Can a 5 gal batch be...