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Good catch Granitapan, will fix that next time I get a chance Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Yes, the relay is rated at 15A at 110V, but the unit as a whole (PCB board, terminals, etc) is rated at 10A. I would not feel comfortable recommending that people feel safe wiring this thing up for 15A without exploring the limitations of the other components involved. Sent from my iPhone...

You could also flash the STC-1000 with Alphaomega's firmware and it will then read in F (and will execute fermentation profiles, which is awesome)

Not that it's at all ground-breaking at this point, but the v1.00 STC-1000+ just successfully completed a 2 week ramp down from 50 to 35 on my Munich dunkel lager. No issues to report. Will now flash with the v1.03. Thanks again, Alpha!

Standard practice is to let the wort settle prior to moving into the primary, so much of the break and hop material will condense at the bottom. You can then pour/siphon the wort off without taking all of the gunk over into the primary. It's fine, and even beneficial, to take some of it, but you...

2nd that, wouldn't sweat it. Looks like that starter is ready to attack some wort! Hope tomorrow goes well man!

Waiting ain't gonna change anything here, bud. You need to find where the obstacle is and/or the missing/broken part and fix it. Sounds like it's either the dip tube or the QD. Maybe pull those parts out and disassemble, then take some pics and let us have a look?

Whoa, sounds like you got overcharged. Tongue Buckler is a big beer (10% ABV), so 12lb of DME for a 5 gal batch sounds about right. It's also a seriously hopped up bitter beer (108 IBU) so I could believe using 11oz of hops if you're going to do some big late additions and do some dry-hopping...

Yep, all are mashed together. Nope, generally speaking steeping grains is a method used only for extract brewing. (There are some fairly obscure all-grain methods that would use steeping, e.g. cold steeping of roasted malts)

Nice, sounds like a good find! One piece of advice when working with this stuff: cut it with a toothed non-ferrous chop saw. I tried cutting it with a standard abrasive type saw for steel, no dice. The local hardware store had a toothed saw for cutting aluminum window frames and it cut this...

FYI, some are supposed to be bent. If it has a smooth bend (roughly 30deg), that's how it's supposed to be. Ensure that this bend is pointing towards the center of the keg during reassembly. If it is kinked or otherwise deformed from contact with the inside of the keg, that's the problem...

If all you want to do is hold a constant temp, don't use a profile at all. Select 'th' in the run menu (for thermostat mode) and set the setpoint to where you want it (38, in this case). The controller will function as a standard STC-1000. Cooling delay is the same in 'th' mode or while running...

I had this concern as well, so I built some drop-in angle iron sections that fit into the burner locations to shield the aluminum from direct heat. I painted them with high-temp header paint and they've held up well. The aluminum shows no sign of any ill-effects from the heat after about 15...

Interesting suggestion, thanks! I have a Netgear WNCE2001 Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Nice, has that TP-Link wireless bridge worked well for you? I have the netgear bridge and it loses connection from inside the box during brews, really annoying. I have to leave the door open on the box during brewing, which kinda defeats the purpose of buying a NEMA enclosure. If that TP-Link...

Very cool, you are really squeezing every last bit out of this little guy, amazing!

Does the hardware on the STC restrict time increments to 1 hr? I'm thinking that we could also use an STC-1000+ to control a mash profile if we could put it in "mash mode" and change the units to minutes rather than hours. We could then leverage the Profile & Ramping capabilities to manage a...

FYI, this logic is correct but the math is wrong. You have to convert the SGs into "Gravity Units". You had 70 gravity units in your original 3500ml and the following equation applies: V1 x GU1 = V2 x GU2 Applying to your values: 3500 x 70 = 3800 x GU2 So GU2 = 64.5 which...

Using the calculator here, looks like you've got wort at 1.064

I would add extruded aluminum framing to the list of weldless stand options. I built my stand out of it and have been very happy with it (link to build is in my signature, if you're interested).