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Your advice is greatly appreciated.

In short, yeah, I want to know the same thing. Type SE wire with 8ga aluminum in a three wire outlet is grandfathered under the NEC codes, I know that much (I also know that connecting it to the spa panel may be a gray area, moreso since I moved it a few feet and rewired the outlet). But...

I have everything wired up to this point (I haven't finished my control panel yet) and now I think I may be misinterpreting some things. My control panel for now would be a simple one element/one pump like Johnodon's. Background: House built in 1954. 30 amp 240 circuit breaker in the main...

Depends on your budget and what you want them to look like. There's the skid row wine rack made from old wooden pallets. A simple scalloped wine rack like these can be built using an 8" (?) board and a 4" (?) hole saw. Space the holes in the board and then rip it down the middle, voila, front...

Have you seen High Gravity's controller?

You wouldn't be able to draw more than 30 amps to the spa panel and risk damage to the equipment because you'd trip the 30a breaker in the mains. In an ideal world, you'd just have a 30a GFCI in the mains and run the 4-wire to an outlet and plug your control panel into that. The spa panel is...

Did you install the element opening? I'm most interested in doing mainly 5 GAL with the capacity for an occasional 10 GAL batch for those weekends when it's not just me drinking a beer or three (or four or eight). Kal has stated that he can boil 5 gallon batches with his element position, but...

I am trying to decide on how I wanted to filter hops, either with a spider/bag or the hop-blocker that Kal sells. Otherwise, nice system!

My fan sits vertically on the hump next to the CO2 tank. You can mount everything to a pine board and lay it in there. (use a new empty paint can to hold the CO2 tank). This won't solve your condensation issues completely but should keep air from stratifying inside your keezer and prevent ice...

I haven't timed mine, but a 5cf with two 1/2 full kegs seems to kick on every 30-45 minutes or so for 3-5 minutes and then shuts down. And I just have the temp probe measuring ambient air inside the keezer. Building that keezer was the best thing I did last year. Although, my beer consumption...

I bought a 5 gal Homedepot bucket and lid, added the appropriate amount of starsan for 5 gal of water, added 5 gal of distilled water ... and voila. Still clear after after 4 months of use and no infections ever, in anything. I typically auto-siphon into anything I'm going to be using (to...

Yes. It's not recommended to use hot water for cooking or drinking - so by the transitive property, I wouldn't use it for making beer either. The general recommendation is based on the use of lead in plumbing, so in more modern homes, it may just precautionary. However, hot water is an...

Drill through what? The freezer lid or the corian? For my two tap keezer tower, I ditched the original freezer lid and built a new lid, insulated it & added weatherstripping, and tiled the top. I have a computer fan in there, but for only moving air in the keezer itself -- I don't have it...

~$150 on the equipment kit and an extract kit. Since then: more carboys, S/S IC, 4 kegs, built a keezer with a tower and twin perlicks, a floor corker for her wine, a bottle tree, and miscellaneous bits and doo-dads. I'm still doing extract because the next step is going all-electric BIAB and...

Pretty much. It can be cheaper, but I built my own and spent a ton of cash in the process. But I built it because A) it's different; B) I built it (with ooodles of help from this place), and C) it has nice additional touches that you either can't get in a retail kegerator or you have pay out...

I just finished mine. I bought a two-tap tower kit from kegconnection with the Perlick upgrade ($270?), a 5.0 cf holiday chest freezer (~$150), a love TS2 temp controller (~$70), and a 12v DC computer fan from Radio Shack with an aluminum housing (~$15). Plus the extension cord to splice the...

That's kind of odd to me. I tie my own flies, but it's a money thing. I fish for lake-run rainbows and freshwater salmon and I often lose a ton of flies. Flies can be as much as $1 per for drys and nymphs and much more for complicated streamers. I can churn out wooly buggers and basic flies...

Thanks for this write-up. Outstanding!

That's a great setup! I like it a lot and it's similar to Psych's but with a pump, which is what I'm planning on using (eventually). I just have to get on the horse and start ordering parts. What were you going to use for an enclosure?

Much appreciated for the information. I doubt I'll ever be brewing more than 60-80 gallons a year and I'm unlikely to brew any real heavy brews - nothing heavier than an IPA. So currently my plan is to have a single vessel capable of 5-10 gallon batches with the drier outlet ( I think a 15...