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Like @csantoni said, you have good generic ale basement temps. I used to have a cold storage room that was the same way: high 60s in the summer, low 60s in the winter. I still found improvement & better consistency with temperature control. You can reduce your risk of diacetyl and unwanted...

I’m already at least $400 into it. I might drop a couple grand and fix several plumbing issues at once: a too flat pipe (I already knew about), a couple incorrect Ts (not angled connections), & maybe a missing vent. UPDATE: I can’t fix all the problems today inside my budget, but I can fix...

By the way, smart thermostats are awesome. I’ve only got reports in one bedroom. I need a zigbee range extender to pick up the den and then buy 3 more. That will have to wait a couple more weeks.

My wife had her tattoo shop / art studio in a building that had something similar. They vented the bathroom fan into the attic space. The result was any time someone took a dump & turned on the fan, half the upper floor could smell it coming back through the ceiling tile.

Best news possible from the plumber: the toilet is leaking around the top of the pipe connection. So hopefully, a new flange connector & wax seal will fix it.

Ideally, you’d want a freezer, a fan, and a temp controller to run your fermentation chamber unless you want to step all the way up to glycol chillers. The fan circulates the air & heat away from the fermentation vessel. The thermostat kicks the freezer and/or heating element on & off. But...

In my hiatus I forgot how nice a mill is. Then my first brew back, I only got 66% efficiency because of the LHBS mill (mine is still in storage).

This is what a hop spider can do for you. It’s not necessary, but it is nice. That’s 2oz. of hops in the spider. Fermentation control & yeast starters are a good next step. If you don’t have one, an immersion chiller is an easy build. A grain mill is also nice.

You seem to have been looking at a lot of pre-boil oxidation paths. Have you looked at rescuing post fermentation oxidation?

That’s about all I got. if it starts to resist, stop and let go. It will spring back a little. Then try again. You might have to do that several times to get it all the way back. mine was held in place with 4 screws: 2 front & 2 back, that fixed the plate into the side walls. I removed the...

If you can gently tilt the freezer plate so that it is flush with the back of the freezer, that will turn the entire fridge into a freezer. I did it to one once to convert it into a ferm chamber. You have to do it slow & gently because if the refrigeration line kinks or breaks, it will ruin...

Pursuing a drunken thought from last night. I took my wife’s homemade granola mixture and substituted it for the spent grains in the spent grain dog treats recipe and rolled out a bunch of granola bars. I also substituted cashew butter and homemade apple butter for the peanut butter. I’ll...

The only old man’s face that haunts me is the one I see everyday in the mirror.

Not drunk yet, but I’m working on it. I got home from work tonight and received a text that I lost another friend today. I don’t yet know if it was the plague du jour or something else. UPDATE: finally got to talk to someone. They think it was a heart attack.

I got under the house today and it is definitely into the ‘crawl’ area of my crawl space. Which for a guy my size with claustrophobic panic attacks, it isn’t a great idea for me to get back there. So I’ll be calling the handyman again to do this thermostat project for me. I also discovered a...

It’s cool. I didn’t think about building in a hutch. I was thinking more along the lines of a floating hutch above it. I’m planning on side cabinets for mine too. One side will have keg tools & house all the wiring/controls. The other side will have space for tanks. The front will have will...

Nice. I assume only the center part lifts and not the whole hutch. What are you storing in the cabinets?

Nice. Good luck.

It is nice to have the versatility to brew 5 or 10 gallons. That said, I doubt I’ll be brewing 10 gallons again anytime soon unless I’m splitting the beer with someone.

I will. I know the circuit in my panel. It should be easy access for the wire on the north side of my house. (It’s a hunched walk on the north side. It’s a crawl on the south side.) I can shine a light down the hole in the wall box to help me locate it and I have a non-contact detector to...