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Way back before my Herms system, i was doing stovetop 3 gallon batches with a sous vide stick. It does well with maintaining mash temps, BUT you will get some temperature stratification unless you're using a pump. I would invest in a small DC solar pump to recirculate through the mash, because...

Storing wet will 100% guarantee nasties growth. Dry and store open. If you're gonna store them closed, pressurize them

Other option 2 Vessel BIAB/Herms Kettle 1 is your Mash Tun. Use a bag, or dont use a bag. Whatever is easier for cleanup Kettle 2 is HLT with Herms coil to maintain Mash Temps during mashing. Fill it to submerge the coil, bring it to your mash temp, and hold it there during mashing qhile...

After years of renting a JB whenever i needed to serve at a party, i finally pulled the trigger and purchased my own. I've got the stainless coil jockey box, the lines with beer nut on one end for the back of the JB, and Keg quick disconnects on the other end, and an adapter for Beer nut to...

Backstory.....I brewed a NEIPA with Imperial A38 Juice back in Feb of which i built a yeast starter and split the starter into 2 jars. One for the NEIPA, one for the fridge for the future. I also did the same with Imperial Barbarian as i was going to brew a Heady Topper clone, but never got to...

I feel like something as dumb and simple as this would be such a no brainer solution. If i could bend stainless or knew someone who would, i'd have this made in a second. Clip it on the coil sanitized right before you transfer into the fermenter, and then pull it off and wash by hand while the...

I dont personally own Stout, but their pro systems are used by countless breweries in my area, and they've been around for a while, so i wouldnt worry about quality. They seem to be pretty well known and robust. I will say that an insulated Mash Tun is less important if you're using a herms...

If its cold crashed, it can take a bit of time to resettle again to get a good flow without wasting beer

Lol you'd think, but OP is correct. If you dump too quickly, you can actually punch a hole in the yeast bed at the bottom of the conical and the stuff on the sides sticks. OP, just dump slowly. It should squeeze out slowly like a tube of toothpaste

Other thing to check.......Are you measuring the voltage across the signal portion of the SSRs? Ie: Looking for voltage changes when the PID is turning them on and off? If they're not getting any change in voltage, then something is wrong between the PID and the SSR. If they're getting...

Pictures of the entire wiring diagram would help immensely. BUT on the front of the inkbird, is the OUT light lighting up when you see the element firing?

FYI, with my 120v system, late last week I needed to knock out an evening brew session, so I turned it on at 530 pm with 90-100 degree water already in the kettles (I filled and heated it up to around 180 the night before and shut everything down), and i was done brewing by 1030pm. 1ish hour to...

1) The amount of heat coming off that initial run of wort through your CFC will heat that CLT water up very quickly and your glycol system wont be able to offset it quick enough. 2) If you're pumping the hot exit water back into the CLT, you're speeding that balance up even more. 3) If your...

Yeah i thought about running it through my mill again to double crush, but also dont wanna deal with a stuck sparge if it gets too fine. Might try this next time and see if theres any change.

So two parts to this 1) Does anyone else always find their efficiency of a recipe that uses flaked oats, ends up lower than expected by a few gravity points (3-5 on average)? Assuming a recipe is fairly straight forward with 12lbs base grain, 3lbs flaked oats, i find i'm always off compared to...

Heating from Sparge to around 205 takes about 30 minutes (i'm usually around 150ish degrees when it gets to the boil kettle from the sparge through heat losses and a cold kettle) Those last few degrees from 205 to 212 take another 15-20. You plateau as you start to hit a boil and those last few...

And for reference, with my single 1650watt element, my boil vigor is a gentle rolling boil in 6-7 gallons of preboil volume, and enough to boil off .75 gallons in an hour, which to date in 3 years of brewing on the system has never produced any off flavors, including brewing with Pilsner malts...

Recently built a 3vessel 120v 20amp controller. See my thread below. Its been working great with the exception of some solder coming loose from the mini XLR connections. I need to wire in some more flexible wiring to the xlr plugs instead of the more rigid stuff i had been using. Currently...

Didnt come up with any solutions, other than dryhopping in smaller doses. Instead of doing one big drop, i do it in multiple smaller drops which helps things drop through. I also give a swirl to move things around. BUT most importantly, i kinda stopped dryhopping once fermentation was...

Truly best is a GFCI breaker subpanel off your main panel. Ie: a Spa panel shutoff