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This is 24 lbs of grain and it just barely didn’t work smoothly. It still worked though. The problem was that the bag was acting as like a wic and siphoning the beer out. Took a while to get it to stop. I still have the batch in the fermenter though. I’ve done several beers slightly over 5% that...

11 gallons in the fermenter. 5.8 ABV

This is still available. After this past experience, I need to sell sooner than later 😂

Soo this thing has been working great. It’s sitting at 37* comfortable as I type this. Had it at 35 and it made it there, but not without forming a bit of ice around the copper lines. I bumped it to 37 just to avoid any issues with freezing the beer inside. I went down 10* per day to make it a...

I personally wouldn’t stop a beer from finishing fermenting out. Interested to hear other opinions on this. That said, I would keg the first one and be patient.

Every time I went on it told me my code wasn’t valid

I’m in Eastlake Ohio.

Only want to sell so I can upgrade to a larger kettle. Kettle only, no fittings. Firm on price. Won’t ship. Northeast OH.

A stir plate has been on my list of things to buy. I guess I’ll have to make it a priority now. Never heard of a shaker I’ll look it up. this is a first time for me. Usually I make 1 liter starters In a 2 liter flask and haven’t had a problem.

I did read about that but what I read said the 90% was a bad sanitizer for that reason and that 70% was superior. I’ll have to take another look to be sure. I like keeping a bottle of rubbing alcohol around just because it’s shelf stable and I can use it in a pinch. Brew days, kegging etc, I use...

trying again but this time with an actual batch of beer.

So this is a 2 liter starter in a 5 liter flask. Yeast = Sundew, which I’m super exited for. Definitely smells strongly of fruit and tastes like fruit out of the package. Anyways, I made the starter at night and the next morning there was a decent Krausen - maybe an inch or so. I always swirl a...

So I put about 10 gallons of water in the keg and ran it for an hour and 15 minutes. I had the probe sitting in the keg and within an inch or two from the top. It stayed at 56.9 for the entire time where the probe sat, but there was ice build up around the copper inside the bath. 😂

I was aware of the cool zone jacket but I had 3 concerns * the jacket alone appears not to be sufficient for the diameter of my keg. I would also need to buy their extension piece * I had planned to purchase more of these kegs to ferment in, which would require additional jackets and cost would...

It is not getting cold aleast above the water line where I can feel the keg. Even if the bottom is getting cold I’m afraid the same thing would happen with the beer. The bottom gets too cold and the stop stays warm. I can’t believe it’s not dispersing better. Using the 50 foot coil probably...

So this is not working well. I’m doing a test run with the keg empty (I have weight plates sitting on it to hold it down) and about 4/5 gallons of water poured around the outside. It only dropped 3/4 degrees over an hour. The bottom of the bucket in condensating so it appears that stratification...

Off to a good start this year.

I’m just going to put it in there and let it fall to wherever it needs to go. Right now it falls to the bottom. Once I get the barbs and vinyl on there won’t be as much room and it may sit a bit higher. I don’t think it’ll be an issue though.

My plan at this point is to just have the probe floating in the bath and away from the coils. I figure that would give me the best reading. I assume if it’s strapped to the keg that it may over shoot. I will definitely post back with an update. I don’t expect it to take much water to fill the...