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More like what hit me. Was at a dock and a huge barge got loose and used my little wood boat as a buoy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jdory/5498483551/in/album-72157625973914417/

Rebuilding my broken 30' cruising catamaran.

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Have fun with this. But answers would depend a lot on what you have and what direction you want to go. For instance, is the basement cool enough for fermentation temps or do you still need to cool? To save money, some guys just freeze plastic bottles of water and throw in a water bath. I found a...

I like the above options the best, but I had some 2" copper pipe in stock so used that. That size copper can be expensive, especially anything like a Tee, so I just drilled holes and soldered in fittings. In the pic, I added the clamp by using #4 copper wire flattened and soldered onto the...

copper RIMS from items already in stock, mostly

Kind of resurrecting an older thread but wondering about how to inspect my new (used) keg. Most telescoping mirrors are 2" which don't fit and the smaller ones seem to be hard to see much with. I was wondering how people solve this? Which mirror are you using? Anyone try something like a...

I'm getting a 403 forbidden access when trying to access the website. I could try back later. /jd

One question I have remaining is do you wrap that insulation around most of your fermenter to insulate it? Right now I just have that heat tape (12" wide by most of the circumference) like fermatape uses and I think it says to leave an 1/8 air gap at least on one side of it, if I remember right...

Yep. Not planning on doing that as a practise. I'm usually doing 10 gal. batches and have enough head space (not using carboys but a Speidel) so I can have both blow off tube and thermowell. Seems so much easier than dealing with all that insulating. But my next batch will probably be another 5...

Thanks for the help. I fixed it by completing the neutral path. All works as advertised now. ;)

So I pulled the blowoff tube and inserted a thermowell into the carboy cap. This is a much improved result. I think the spike is when the thermowell was cooling off, but maybe that was temp in middle of beer..

poorly insulated probe taped to outside vs. thermowell

So I want to move away from glass carboys, but have them for now. This is a 6 gallon one, with a 5 gallon batch in it - maybe a bit more. It was from a Bee Cave Brewery Robust Porter recipe so closer to 5.5 gallons but I may have been a bit short. You can see the taped on area of the temp. probe...

Active Fermentation

Oh, for the heck of it- I'll post my pics. It has a lot to critique as it was a first attempt. I would do it differently if I did it over - better organization, maybe use less wires. But it works! Haven't killed anyone yet. Has a small problem with switches not lighting up at proper time, but I...

Built this, not saying you should. You could improve on it.

Built this, not saying you should. You could improve on it.

Hey Doug, thanks for the time it took you to read and respond. And others.. I appreciate it. I may have found the problem in trying to diagram it out for this forum. I think I'm missing a link back to neutral, although I'm not sure how it all works (except the indicator lights) without it. The...

electric brewing for 120 volt RIMS and two 240 volt elements for HLT and Boil, from PJ