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I just rested my immersion chiller on the element. It wasnt anything heavy or robust so i never worried about it. Moved to CFC now

I have a very similar LVP flooring in my basement. I've had issues with planks separating here and there, but in areas unrelated to my brew area. The brew area has been perfect and the LVP holds up nicely to spills

I bought all my quick disconnects from Amazon, Denord brand, and i've had zero problems with them in over a year and a half. Nothing has leaked a single drip

Currently have the Chronical BME and its been fantastic. If you pair it with FTSS2 and a glycol chiller, its a set it and forget it system. I personally didnt see any advantages to moving to a unitank as i brew 5 gallons so i dont have to worry about trying to carbonate multiple kegs worth of...

Takes my on average about 20-30 minutes to fly sparge on my 5 gallon herms system, and i'll typically shut off the sparge water when i have about 1.5 gallons to go to my target boil volumes. My mash tun has almost 2 gallons of dead space under the false bottom so this accounts for that. I'm...

For the record, i've set my mill gap at .48 with my herms system and have found NO drop in efficiency, but all the world of difference in both flow rates and lack of stuck mash/sparge, no matter how much adjuncts i use. I am consistenly 70% efficiency when i use Viking 2-row, and 75% when i'm...

As i've come to realize over the year and a half with my system, water volumes during mashing and sparging have little effect on efficiency. Just as long as you keep the grain bed covered, and never let it dry out, and your flow throught he grainbed is good, you shouldnt see any major drops in...

Something i've learned from all my NEIPAs..........dont judge it until its been in a keg for a week, and you've dumped out the first couple of pints. No matter how long you cold crash in the fermenter, and how good your dumping is, there is always tons of suspended hop and yeast particles...

Final update. Got my new cooler put in yesterday to replace the leaking one, and everything was fine with zero issues with icing when its purely h20. Set the controller to 45 with a 5 degree differential. AC shut off at 45 and the temp settled around 42. Didnt turn back on for a couple hours...

I was brewing with the same method as you for 3/4 of 2019. Fill HLT, Fill MLT, raise to target mash temp, dough in, recirculate, let it come up to temp, then turn on timer. It produced great results and i never saw a major issue, however i recently started underfilling my HLT a little bit, and...

See this is where it all gets confusing. USP Food Grade glycol is supposed to be completely food safe. In fact its an additive in most foods. So ok, fine, if you have a tiny leak in your fittings, and a few drops end up in your beer, not the end of the world. RV Antifreeze is also propylene...

Well the chiller worked fine with water, so i'm sure it COULD work, however i developed a leak in the cooler, so its back to the drawing board anyway lol. Going to pick up a new cooler tonight, and hope this one works better

I thought RV antifreeze is no bueno compared to food grade USP glycol when it comes to immersed coil glycol fermenter systems yeah I have a fountain pump in the bottom that moves the water around and over the coils :)

Currently finishing up the usual DIY Glycol Chiller out of a 5000btu air conditioner build. Everything went smooth and i'm just waiting for the spray foam to cure BUT i'd really really like to brew this week. I wont be able to get my Glycol gallons until this weekend, and we're having people...

Any standard brewbucket can be made to be oxygen free. SS Brewtech brewbuckets can hold 2-3psi, so just outfit the lid with a gas attachment, hook up a co2 tank with a low pressure regulator, push 2psi in, and transfer. Its how i cold crashed, and transferred, for quite some time before upgrading

Hot pbw/oxiclean soaks, and shop vac. I never move my 3 vessel system under regular cleaning. Maybe once every 4-6 months I’ll completely take apart the whole system, and I’ll clean the floors and stand and everything at that time. Otherwise normal cleaning is just scooping out grain, shop vac...

Is there any sizing considerations for the cooler in an AC DIY Glycol build? Any reason why a larger cooler would work better than a smaller other than stabilization of the glycol temp due to thermal mass when you're trying to cold crash multiple FVs, or control multiple larger FVs? Just...

Anyone using their home bar/brewing area tv as a taplist without using something like Taplist through Firestick? I've got an LED tv in my basement bar/brewing area that has Roku built in, but i see Taplist.io is only compatible with Firestick. Seems silly to purchase Firestick considering my...

Updating on this, i rearranged my brewing area and slid the keezer under my bar. I had to move from a 2x6 collar to a 2x4, and the 3 cornys still fit fine. The hump however will now only accomodate a 3gallon corny, which is fine, since i typically brew ultra high gravity stouts and IIIPAs in 3...

Yeah listen to everyone above. Even at only .75gallons boil off per hour for my setup, if i didnt have my exhaust fan on through the entire boil, you would feel it on my walls. You NEED active ventilation. Its not a want, its a need