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If you’re not using a temperature control, did you have a temperature swing? The yeast could have shocked, slowed down, and then picked up again.

Last night, I discovered the ******* who wired the outlets wrong also put a voltage regulator on the 240V, 20A heater circuit so they could put a low voltage (mercury) thermostat on them. Sometime this weekend, I’ll be in the crawl space looking for voltage regulators. EDIT: Upon further...

Grain bills with a lot of Pilsen malt can develop DMS off flavors of you don’t give them a long enough boil. Another 30 minutes on the boil is cheap insurance against a beer that tastes like creamed sweet corn.

I showed Who’s On First to my teenager last night. It still works. Then I had to explain that the “straight” in a Straight Man - Funny Man routine doesn’t refer to sexual orientation.

I want to put in a liquor cabinet on the front of my keezer and have a shiny surface behind the bottles. However, to keep the keezer narrow enough to take through a door, I don’t have the space to put an actual mirror in unless I glue it to the freezer’s skin which would cause insulation...

Central Welding has beverage & medical grade gases. It just wasn’t clear to me on their website that they did anything less than bulk service.

I can take a tank to Central Welding and have it filled? Their Burlington & Smokey Point locations would be the closest two to me.

@Tobor_8thMan, I checked one of the outlets that had more dim signals for ground with a multimeter. I’m getting 115V from hot to neutral but 47V from hot to ground. Should I double check the wiring on it?

My first beer back brewing after 5 years is finally ready - a dampfbier with comet hops. It tastes like grapefruit juice.

Practically everywhere in an island house in Western Washington is a “possible water” area. Seriously, though, I’ll just work it into my project rotation, $50 to $100 from a paycheck into: 1. Keezer build 2. Replacing ancient thermostats with smart thermostats 3. Getting GFCI & GFCI/AFCIs into...

Maybe it is. I thought it was just outdoor outlets and near water sources. Maybe I’ll just buy some dual GFCI and GFCI/AFCI breakers to take care of the garage outlets, outside lights, & garage door.

Thanks. I appreciate the sentiment. For me, I wouldn’t mind staying in this house. It’s the first ‘nice’ house I’ve owned and I’m only a half mile from semi-private shoreline access. However, if I was to live here into retirement, I’d probably re-landscape for lower maintenance. My wife...

The 70s will never die!🕺🏻

Especially in a bathroom. At least this bathroom had a GFCI. What I didn’t mention in the original post is there was no GFCI in that bathroom. I had the handyman add it while he was fixing the other issues.

A really short attic. If I live here long enough, I’ll put ceiling lights in all the rooms. It’s just right now I don’t know if I’m living here past 2023.

That’s kind of what I was expecting. Thanks for the sympathy. I found one more outlet wired backwards and ungrounded. Again, the ground wire was jammed in the back of the box. I still have two rooms left to check.

All my bedrooms have no ceiling lights and the light switches control the outlets. There was a phase in the 60s or 70s where it was the cool to have floor lamps lighting rooms. It’s doesn’t really jive with 21st century living where everything is expected to be powered all of the time.

Last week I finally got a handyman in to figure out a couple electrical problems in my house. I can do some basic electric but these were weird enough that I couldn’t diagnose it. In my main bathroom, there was an incorrectly wired outlet that wasn’t passing electricity. There was also an...

Equipment is the most expensive part of brewing. My advice is always: decide what the largest beer you want to brew is and size your equipment between 1.5x and 2x larger. If all you want to brew is 5 gallons, buying 10 gallon equipment makes sense. If you ever want to size up, you’ll be...

Wyeast 3068 will give you more of a German Hefeweizen flavor. The optimal temp range is 64F to 75F. Colder side will produce more clove. Warmer side will produce more banana. If it gets sulphuric, it will condition out. You should have no problem getting 75% attenuation. Target an OG...