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I've been to Bamberg (and a few other places around Germany and Belgium recently). For some ideas, check out a "trip report" on our homebrew club pages: http://www.aleiens.com/profiles/blogs/bamberg-tour-live (More trip reports are found under the Blogs heading.) Enjoy your trip - I'm...

I had some problems at first, but used 45 and 90 degree CPVC fittings to get "up" from the manifold resting on the bottom and into the outlet where I had a SS 1" x 1/2" nipple connecting into a CPVC adapter with 1/2" threads on one end and "slide-in" on the other. -e

Very similar to my experience from my last brew day - after I insulated the lid, even. I found I had to fill water into the MLT at a high temp (while I was heating more in the keggle), and wait until I hit the strike temp "inside" the cooler. The heat loss during the "filling" is...

Ok, so I did a very basic experiment First, I filled the lid of one of the coolers with insulation foam purchased at Lowe's for 3.98/can. It was clear when I was spewing the sticky stuff into the lids that I wouldn't be able to get "full coverage everywhere" The next morning, the lid had...

Won't do it very scientifically correct, really. Just interested in seeing if there's a significantly higher drop in temp in one cooler over the other. Thx, -e

You have a good point. Still, there's something nagging at the back of my head which I can't quite make out (from my old physics classes eons ago). The way the thin lids are constructed, it makes me think that they aren't very effective insulators. Anyhoo, since nothing beats empirical...

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing that out. Before my next brew session, I'll fill the lids with insulating foam, hopefully that'll help me keep a stable temp (in addition to the other tips I've received and found) Thanks, Eivind

Hey Erik, I have two of these coolers, one as a MLT with manifolds at the bottom and underneath the lid. The other is my HLT. I think it was a combination of several factors - I was off by approximately 6-8 degrees in my mash. The most important one was that I hadn't made sure that...

Nicely done! I recently went A/G with the same cooler + another one as an HLT. I also do fly sparging with a manifold mounted underneath the lid. One issue I had during my first batches, was the difficulty of hitting the right strike temperature (and thus I mashed too low and got somewhat...

Hey hungrymonkey, hope you don't mind a question I've been tinkering with design ideas for my own rig, not all that unlike yours. I was dreaming up a way to have three stackable "cubes" of equal dimensions sitting on an "undercarriage" on wheels. Bolts and wingnuts would secure one cube #1...

This is Joe Bair from Princeton Homebrew in NJ, my LHBS. Joe Bair is the owner, a true veteran, an innovator, and part-time mad brewing scientist :)

The (so far) glory of being in Germany watching this is: No commercials. The downside: No pre/postgame interviews. And a crappy internet connection in the hotel bar makes for less than top-quality broadcast (bring on the mlb.tv flamers :) I painfully remember a playoff series from...

Go Phils!!!!!!!!!!!!! (from a soon to be drunk and rambling man waiting for the first game on mlb.tv over in Germany)

Thanks Rico, appreciate the insight and advice! I will never even attempt to hook something up to this tank - I like the placement of my house and garage where it is now, and not up in the stratosphere somewhere... :) aledawg

hey Rico! I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday - getting an extension from the big tank in my back yard (which only feeds the stove and a space heater in the sunroom) into the garage area which is where I'll be doing all my brewing going forward. Do you have any idea what I should...

Hello fellow beer enthusiasts! I have found my new hobby, having done one or two B.O.P's, and I am now looking to continue my quest into learning how to make and enjoy all the world's great beers. I'm nothing, if not ambitious..! See you around the neighborhood!! best, Aledawg. Woof