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In case anyone is curious, I added a 1.5" TC ferrule to the lid of my Anvil Fermentor. Take a look: Full album: https://imgur.com/gallery/hSkVfDo I for one am really looking forward to using my 1.5" TC CIP micro sprayer on my next batch. :)

UPDATE: I successfully soldered the TC ferrule to the lid. Take a look: https://imgur.com/gallery/hSkVfDo I'm 95% happy with the result. I've soldered a bunch of pullthrough bulkheads before, so this wasn't my first rodeo; however, I feel like I got a couple of "pits" in the solder...

Get a new electrician. Like @doug293cz said, most electric stoves are 50amp -- mine sure is. The only way it would "immediately catch fire" is if the electrician didn't do his job right.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/lionbrewingsolutions I've made a few purchases through this shop and saved big when eBay runs 15-20% off promotions. On July 2nd, I bought a Tilt Hydrometer from them. I paid immediately and waited patiently. On July 10th, they marked my item as shipped, yet when I...

Everyone talks about adding Calcium Chloride and Gypsum, but I never hear of anyone adding epsom salt (which effects the Magnesium levels in the resulting water profile). According the EZ Water Calculator, Palmer recommends a Magnesium level of 10-30ppm which usually means about 4 grams of...

Good news. Yesterday I disassembled the innards of my HLT, and put my torch to the flange until it fell off. I was able to wipe most of the solder off pretty easily and then I took wire wheel to the kettle and flange to clean them back up to a shine. It was clear after removing the flange...

@BrionLax I just ordered the parts to do this. I was a little delayed with a few batches of beer that were finishing up and dialing in my new HERMS system. If I'm thinking about this correctly, having the gas post (https://www.brewhardware.com/product_p/tc15blg.htm) on the top of the fermenter...

Has anyone had any luck doing pressure transfers with a large dry hop bill? 8oz+? With my first batch, I had 2oz of dry hops. I cold crashed for 48 hours to 36 degrees, and the valve clogged after about half of the batch was transferred. It was an open transfer and I only had the valve open...

Roger that -- I'll dial back the pump even further and see if that solves my problem. From what I understand, the speed of recirculation has no real effect on the overall quality of the final product, so no point in pushing it. ...right?

Interesting. I am turning my pump off between mashout and sparging since I need to swap hoses. Are you suggesting keeping the pump on and just closing the ball-valve on the pump "outlet"? I don't *think* I'm recirculating too fast, but I can always dial it back a bit more. I'm using one of...

It's tough to say how much made it into the BK. A lot of the particles got caught up in the "loop" I created with the hose. The particles settled at a low spot and then since the pump was turned all the way down, the flow was slow enough to keep them there. If I had to guess, probably about...

I use the clear high temp silicone hose from BargainFittings and I can see them trickling down as I sparge. The particles appear to flow throughout the whole sparging process. It's not a lot, but it's really frustrating to watch after I know I just spent an hour recirculating absolutely clear...

I'm taking a wild guess on the flow rate. My pump is rated at 5-6gpm and I'm running it at about half speed during mash recirculation. When I fly sparge, I turn it down as low as I can go (which ends up being about a 45min sparge). You bring up "thickness" -- I've always mashed at...

I calculated an 88% mash efficiency. One of the best preboil gravities I've ever gotten. When fly sparging, I'm adding hot water from my HLT via a locline arm. I'm keeping 1-2" of water above the grainbed and when I'm done sparging, the grainbed looks immaculate. I'm PRETTY sure I'm not...

I'm 2 batches in with my new custom built E-HERMS system and this last batch was really smooth. I worked out a ton of issues I had with my first batch and was able to get record high efficiencies. BUT, there was one odd issue... Let's start with some background info: Mashing in a 10 gallon...

This is just another example that there's no one right way to mash. I personally recirculate constantly throughout my entire mash process and it works well for me (now that I got my system dialed in), but I also built my panel/controls with the assumption that I'll be constantly circulating...

I highly recommend the 12v bayite. I started on one of those and it served me well for quite a while. This is the exact one I bought (hard to go wrong for $24.50 on Prime): http://a.co/34h8Ysu I'm now running two "China Chuggers" that I picked up on aliexpress...

See that's the thing -- the HLT temp tends to jump a bit here and bit there, but ultimately my mash temp holds PERFECTLY. As long as the mash temp is consistent, I really don't care what the HLT PID is displaying. I'll play with the digital filter setting to see if I can smooth things out. I...

I could use some feedback if the behavior I'm seeing is normal: I have two Inkbird ITC-106vh on my control panel (one for HLT and one for MT). I'm using RTD PT-1000 sensors. I calibrated both carefully and found them both to be about 6 degrees off (I corrected that easily on the PIDs). I...

Actually. Scratch that. I had to drill a 1-3/8” hole for the radiused ferrule. The pull through ferrules require a smaller 1-1/4” hole. I guess I’m stuck cleaning up one I have and trying again. I had much better luck the second kettle I soldered and that ferrule looks perfect and is water tight.