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The reason i was thinking of skipping out on the sightglass on the mash tun was because I was thinking of measuring the strike water in the HLT and pumping it to the mash to heat in the mash. Does this make sense? or do most avoid the extra transfer?

thanks for the agrisupply.com tip, gonna save me $10 per burner:)

Hello, Looking at building a new Wallace style weldless sculpture. I have 3 kegs and are about to buy couplings and handoff to a welder to intall them. This is what i was thinking of going with for plumbing in each of the vessals. MashTun: thermometer ball valve -->falsebottom HLT...

thinking about building one of these stands, how well does the high temp engine paint hold up after a few batches?

so it doesn't damage most pumps to leave them on and pumping and block the output tubing? Im looking at march pumps probably a 804 model. BTW GO PACK GO!

Ok thanks for the replies guys. One more dumb followup question. When you go from recirculating back into the kettle and transition to the fermentor, how do you stop the flow through the pump so you can take your tubing out of the kettle and stick it in your fermentor? 1. do you leave the...

So i use an IC now. And am thinking of upgrading to a plate chiller (sharron or thermonator type) with a march pump. Got a dumb question. When you are pumping through a plate chiller to you have to recirculate back into the kettle? Or is one pass through the chiller enough to bring it down...

K yea I read the solder and it says that the operating temp is like 400 fahrenheit so I think I'm good

Will boiling water break down silver solder? I chopped up my IC and soldered it to make it bigger, but a joint will be under the wort..... Is this a problem? Thanks Chris

ok ill taste the grain and go from there. Thank you nefarious_1 for your generous offer to test the grain and potentially put yourself at risk. You are my hero. Maybe next time. Chris

i wasn't concerned about health or anything important like that, just weather or not it will taste ok, usually i get this stuff and brew within a week, two tops.

Hey, I bought some crushed grain about a month ago, and haven't gotten to brewing (new job, and home remodeling projects) is this stuff still good? It was for a hefe so i think it was 4lbs pils 7.5 wheat. It was in a plastic bag, with a twitsty tie on it, and in my keezer at 37 degrees f...

what about sparge temps? Ive heard that you want your sparge temp around 165 F, so depending on the original mash temp, I sometimes sparge in with 180 degree F water to bring the total temp to around 165, is this correct? Why is it that much higher than mash in temps?

Bottled this last night. I drank the little bit that wouldn't fill a bottle, its pretty damn close to the real thing. I might have added a little too much coffee though, the coffee flavor is really intense. I added 9oz of coffee grinds in the secondary and let them soak for 48hrs. I think...

Racked this to secondary today with the coffee grinds. I plan on bottling this on Monday night. I'll keep the thread updated on taste comparisons.

i added the coffee to the secondary. There was no coffee present in the primary.

I don't think I need to wash the cake because I used a hop bag and got virtually no hop junk in the yeast. The surly is a milky mud brown color with very few specks of black. I love how easy it was to collect this yeast because of the hop bag.

Has anyone mashed anything like this in a coleman extreme mash tun? Its roughly 36lbs of grain. I've never tried anything like that in my mash tun... https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/stoneface-russian-imperial-stout-26710/

I just racked my Surly Coffee Bender clone off its yeast cake. I collected around a half gallon of yeast sulry. I've never used 1098 before. Is this yeast cake going to work well to ferment a RIS like the one here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f68/stoneface-russian-imperial-stout-26710/ or...

I have 80' of 3/8". I bought a 20' IC from midwest supplies, it worked fine for 5 gallon batches but I needed to add to it to get it to work in my keggle. I bought an additionaly 60' and soldered it to the original chiller. It doesn't look pretty now, but it cools 10 gallon batches in <10...