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Wow! I can't believe I read the whole thing!! Even after taking lots of notes and saving lots of links I have a question. I plan to use a single stage controller to control a hot plate that will heat my BIAB sparge water. I want this water to be 168F. Where do I put the sensor? I will be...

The place we moved to (and live in now) eleven years ago had a set of 4 dog runs on one side of the carport / workshop / garden room. The roof was all rusted out, the chain link fences half rusted and the gates were all gone. I finally convinced a neighbor I really did want to tear the roof...

You can do that, if you use an tall enough collar. I have 4 pin locks and did it with a 2x6 collar which ended up being about 1/4" too short, and added a 1x2 to the top of the 2x6's. Works great. I leave my tank outside to keezer with a hole for the gas line drilled / sealed through the...

You can also use plastic tubing which will tolerate the boiling water so you don't have to remove it, and/or bend (gently, slowly) part of the coil up so the plastic tubing never touches the boiling water. I have done both. I have also just immersed my coil in a big pot of Starsan to sanitize it.

I think the answer depends on how cold you want the chamber to be, and how large. If you want to lager a 5 gal. carboy, I don't think the 1.7 would work at all, and the 2.5 might be iffy at best. You are probably better off being patient. When the college school year ends, there are usually a...

Thanks for the update. That sound encouraging. I don't know how cold my room will get but I assume I will need a heater of some type in the chamber. Any information on the size / type of mini-fridge you used?

Some questions: How did your setup do for lagers? I assume you don't use it for lagering. What size (and maybe what make and model) mini-fridge did you use? I don't want to overkill it, but I don't want to undersize it. Any need for heat in your setup to keep up to ale fermentation...