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I've brewed plenty of stouts porters and brown ales with cocoa powder with great results, but my wife has tasked me with making something light ale/lager'ish with chocolate flavor to it. Obviously the easy answer is add cocoa powder, but i'm wondering what kind of effect it will have on the...

Mine did the same a few months ago. They replaced it for me free of charge once i sent them pics and information. Great customer service experience

If spike or SS came out with a bottom drain option with legs, i'd be all over it. Pure and simple. And i feel like at the right price point, a significant portion of homebrewers would too. It doesnt change the actual brew day, but certainly makes cleanup way easier. That, and a little...

Exactly. I get it that theres other options, but all of them require moving the kettles. The less i have to move, the better, and its pretty much standard on any brewing system above a certain size, so why is it not an option on anything below. Blows my mind

Keep in mind, my issue as well, is that my brewing table space is limited to 48" which means my 10 gallon kettles are fairly close together, and enclosed from the sides with a wall on one side, and fermenters on the other, so a CIP setup or at least something that requires minimal movement of...

I'm assuming all of you tipping your kettles are either not using electric, or you're completely disconnecting your elements, and disconnecting all of your fittings? Between valves sticking out of the bottom from front of my kettles, the gangbox on the side housing the element and wiring, and...

you would then also have to put legs on the kettle, and to make it worthwhile, the bulkhead would have to be a 1.5" Triclamp sized port, with elbow, etc. Just starts getting into completely custom territory with welding, etc. Hence why i'm more curious if theres any off the shelf kettles i'm...

Hah yes. A true bottom center or offset drain port to aid in draining and cleaning without moving the kettles

The element port, or fittings, isnt the problem, its finding a 10-15 gallon kettle with a true bottom drain. That is mostly what i'm searching for

Anyone have any insight into anything in the 10-15 gallon Electric kettle size range with a bottom drain? I'm getting sick of having to shop vac out my leftover crap in my kettle after brew day, and the mess that cleaning the shop vac then makes. Would love a bottom drain kettle to not only...

Can you? Sure! Should you? depends At the end of the day, an electric water heater thermostat does the same thing as a full brewerry controller.........it turns an element on and off to achieve a desired temperature. However while a water heater T-stat might be set to "120", the actual...

I've got a 4 tap keezer, and a 3 vessel electric 5 gallon system. I've caught the bug of wanting to move up to 10 gallon, but ultimately i dont because there are times where i feel limited, and the beer goes too quick, but then its followed by periods where i have the same stuff on tap for...

Is it possible this is a combination of the element and the connection? A bad element might be causing unstable resistence across the line and then its seeing itself manifest at a point like the connection where maybe if the element was working 100%, it wouldnt be as big of an issue.

First major question..............Do you keg? If not, be prepared to drink these extremely fast as they will degrade quickly if you bottle, if not almost immediately. Oxygen ingress is a MAJOR concern for brewing this style, and you can oxidate your beer even if you do keg without taking all...

I doubt anything that has the capacity to hold a heavy controller, will also be able to clamp to something. The clamp would have to be fairly wide and robust to be able to safely support the weight combined with the ability to have lateral motion.

I actually have one of these for my transfers to keg from my Chronicals. Never thought to use it during whirlpool/transfer. I suppose i would have to get another length of hose, some quick disconnects, and some triclamp to QD fittings, but its an option i guess! Gonna see how the mesh hop...

Good enough for me! Just ordered two of them to see which fits better in my kettle

Trying to decide if a hop spider makes sense for me or not. After a couple brews lately where i clogged my CFC with hops, i wondered if adding a hop spider to my boil kettle would be a good idea. My thinking is it will keep most of the hop matter out of the boil kettle itself, which means no...

Just as long as the contactor is there to cut the power to an element in the event of a bad SSR stuck in the on position, thats all that matters. No contactor means no way to cut power if things go wrong other than shutting off the entire panel

I take the opposite approach. I buy what i find on sale, or what i need for something specific i have in my mind, but i buy in larger quantities than i need. So whatever I have on hand, tends to go into future recipes. I will often make "Kitchen Sink" IPAs where i just use whatever hops i...