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First Brew First brew went really well overall. It was a relatively low grain bill (8.5lbs) with an OG of 1.040. Mash efficiency was 83%. Brewhouse efficiency was 78%. I have a Millar’s Pilot mill set near the lowest setting (it has a really wide gap span). I condition the grain before...

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I’m looking for a pump I can mount directly to the kettle that’s more durable than the cheap brown solar pumps(which I already have). The Unibrau V3 has a kettle-mounted pump with a center inlet and stainless head. It looks like the Keg King MKII? Can anyone confirm? I have a chugger but...

I picked up a plate chiller (Duda 20 plate - B3-23A) and was very happy with it the first time I used it this past weekend. I used to use an immersion chiller. I’ll provide some more detail on my inaugural brew in another post. Overall it went really well, but the whirlpool was the one area I...

Thanks. I’m comfortable with the wiring of the probe. I just don’t know how the wires translate into the pins on the backside of the sensor jack inside the box. In other words, I don’t know which pins correspond to ground, left and right.

The more I play with my unit to try to fix the temp reading issue I’m facing, the more I think it is a bad 3.5mm jack. When temps stabilize, I can easily throw it back into oscillation by just touching or rotating the probe in the jack. I see there is a small board attached to the back of the...

I just got one of these units. Anyone know why my temp probe reading would oscillate with a 2 degree Fahrenheit difference (eg 89 degrees, then 91 degrees, and back to 89 degrees every second or so). I’ve used the temp probe that came with the unit and a second PT100 probe from Auber. Anything...

I’m in

Rather than have the assembly supported from the lid and the side of the kettle, you could also build an adjustable height foot to support it from the bottom (if the bottom of the assembly will be close to the floor - can’t tell yet). I’m not exactly sure what the bottom of the assembly will...

Took your advice. Cheers!

Detachable whirlpool arm and sparge ring The original pics of the kit show the locline sparge ring threaded into the full NPT (double-sided) TC fitting on the lid. Based on a suggestion in another thread, I added a male BL QD so that I can swap the sparge ring for a whirlpool arm after the...

Press Fit Diptubes (Custom sized) It was brought to my attention that I didn’t provide the details of the diptubes in my kettle. This is actually important given that I needed them sized properly for the custom kettle. I bought two of the 1.5 TC press fit diptubes from brewhardware.com...

I am limited to 120V

Nice looking butterfly. If you don’t mind, where did you pick these up?

Cheers!

Ha. Already done. I can confirm that those giveaways do in fact go to real people. ;)

Claimed! ;)

I’d be running this off a circuit in my house rated and wired for 20amp. Yea, I figure I’d need to upgrade the input, internal wiring, and output. I haven’t received the unit yet, so I wasn’t sure what the internals look like. Bobby’s guidance will help (ordered it with the added switch from...

Cheers! Very helpful..

Cheers. Hoping to get a brew in this weekend and will post an update on the experience with the new kit.