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Only reason I change out my blow off for an airlock when krausen subsides is I find it a pain to clean a blow off that has sat for several weeks. I know it can be soaked in pbw for a while but I try not to soak plastics for more than 5-10 minutes. I feel that the couple seconds to change it out...

New Glarus, they use water based glue, simple soak and they slide right off.

I wouldn't leave the blow off on for more than a few days to a week, just until the krausen subsides, and if you put starsan in the blow off container you really shouldn't have anything to worry about as far as things growing in it, at least not for the short time stated above.

I also use a blow off every time weather high gravity or not. Use it for the first few days till krausen subsides then switch to airlock. Also a 5 gallon carboy (at least mine) actually holds around 5.5 to 6 gallons so there is some headspace, but it's just too easy to use a blow off and not...

That's nice. Good job.

And J_Hanna, and Spellman, if you're ever in Milwaukee I owe you both several beers. Thanks for putting this thread together, and answering questions along the way. As a side note, the first batch of grain is also for my first sour.

I think the biggest thing is to get a single 12v rail PSU. You don't want to bind multiple 12v rails as the will likely have different amps and you don't want to mix that. The other thing is to check for remote wires, in researching psu wiring via Google I found that there are a few different...

I clipped and terminated all the wires except the grounds(black), 12v(yellow), and remote?(green). Then clipped/terminated wires, I opened the PSU and stuffed them inside making sure they weren't going to cause problems with anything including the fan. One ground and the remote wired to the...

So I ran my first batch of grain through my mill today and am as happy as a pig in it's own filth to say that it worked flawlessly! Tore through 7lbs of 2row like nothing. Very happy with my setup, and thank you guys for putting this info all together here, and those that guinea pigged to figure...

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I have said pot and tried converting the steamer tray by drilling several more larger holes in it then attaching a semi-fine mesh to it, was trying to get it to filter hops while boiling, chilling, and draining. No good though, the boil kept pushing it up and allowing the hops to get under it...

So can these pumps be wired directly to the power supply Riot linked to, or does there need to be a resister or anything wired inline, also the supplys look to have 3 sets of terminals, does anyone know if the power is split evenly between them or if there is some type of load balancing if say...

I've taught a few people to brew.

Agreed, no one here is sh1ting on FF, we're giving feedback that will allow them to improve the product. If you don't have any problems with your FF, good congrats, but don't attack those that do or see areas that can be improved upon.

Before now I've been milling at my lhbs, but now that I can mill at home I most likely will be conditioning before milling.

Yes I did flip the shaft, I found that with the shaft on the other side resting the gearbox square on the surface it aligns perfectly with the shaft on my cereal killer height wise. And yeah, having the bucket enclosed to catch the grain to keep the airborn particulate down was a must for my...

So I've been busy lately and not able to brew or work on projects, until recently. Then this happened, I still need to test it with grain but otherwise it runs.

That's a damn nice setup you got there.

Welcome from Brookfield.

I soak them in bourbon. I split them and scrap the"seeds" out of the bean and mix the seeds and bean in to the bourbon, after a few weeks I remove the bean halves and dump the bourbon, seed mixture in.