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Unless your element wattage is sized perfectly for your kettle you will have to modulate the power somehow to control your boil. There are piles of threads on pwm control, and it's fairly simple to construct a pwm controller. I opted for the ezboil controller that lets me dial down power. Wort...

Didn't realize OP didn't already have a chiller. Yes, that will save you lots of time and lessen potential of contamination.

https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=9GlaYLi2jW8

Just brewed my first batch with an ezboil last night, it's an incredibly good controller. Just remember to secure the temp sensor during boil. My system is way overpowered and I boil at 40% output. While moving some stuff around the temp sensor fell out of the kettle, read under 200 and the...

I use #5 caplugs. They buy them by the ten thousand where I work so a hand full a year don't get missed. Fit perfect.

Honestly the best thing I ever did was get off the stove. Buy a big kettle, go all electric and mount a water heater element in it, buy a $50 ezboil controller and a $15 relay from auber....or go any of a hundred different all electric options. There are lots of threads and write ups on it.

Hit the hardware store and get: Hose barb for the size line on the kegerator and pieces to reduce down to the size you need for the conversion.

I'm a machinist, I know steel. This is def chromed mild steel. It is also def advertised as stainless.

Haven't built the recirculation system yet, brewed a batch last night without it. Pic during mash and video of boil control response. https://youtu.be/_5zv9Plgbhg

Ended up using the domed lid of the boiler flipped upside down with a colander in it to drain grains. Hit my target gravity and boil volume. Brown ale is currently bubbling it's way towards full krausen.

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This rack is bull****. NOT stainless. Rusted overnight when left damp.

Yeah, when I settle on my final kettle I'll do that, til then I'm not gonna buy a $30 bag for a kettle I may very well not stick with.

Looks like he makes a fantastic product. I will surely buy some, but I hesitate to order one for my current kettle when it becomes more and more likely that I will buy a larger kettle soon. Till then I will use doubled up paint strainer bags and maintain my pH as such that I don't extract...

Ordered this, now for better bags. What's the fan favorite for bags out there? Also, will be a while before I can brew on my equipment because of a faulty SSR. Lesson of the week is buy once, cry once. Cheap eBay SSR's fry as soon as they see ac voltage.

http://www.ispray.com/ecatalog/full-cone/en

Yeah I got a few muslin bags for my hops, I've read you don't want them running free in the kettle. Got a lot of the panel wired today and got 240vac ran to it. Tomorrow I might have time to finish and brew but I highly doubt it. Got ingredients for an English brown ale, should be nice and malty.

I'm sure I will eventually get a bigger pot. This is what I had available. Don't really have a pile of money to throw at a 15 gal stainless kettle.

Yeah, my tubing hasn't come in yet anyway so first batch will likely not be recirculated. Will see what kind of efficiency I get as a baseline.

Too late. Element is installed, control panel is half built. This is my setup until I expand my kegging capacity enough to do 10 gal batches. It should be noted that ive been brewing with extracts for 15 yrs or so. My foray into shine was a brief one. The work I've done today: