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Gotcha - I know I would somehow screw that up at some point. Just had to throw it out there. :mug:

I'd be a little leary of any sort of valve on the exit port of the jacket.

Garage Brewer as well. I take themash colander outside and balance it in two buckets right side up to scoop most grain out, then balance it on its side across the two buckets and spray out with a hose as well. Think i have a pic earlier in the thread.

Disagree as well. I was extremely careful and diligent about every aspect of my brewing and doing the same thing as the OP was the root cause of my mysterious off-flavor. To date my only dump in 30 batches was a Two Hearted clone that suffered this off-flavor after pitching 80+ and immediately...

It took me a year to figure out that a off-flavor I was getting was from pitching yeast into 77-85*F wort then putting it in the keezer to cool down immediately to fermenting temp of 65-67*F. Of course, this depends on what you're brewing but I was making mostly ale's and using US-05. Now I...

Well I think the verdict is in. My little 1/6HP TK500 chiller even with insulated lines and partially insulated BIAC just can't cut it for cold crashing temps in a garage at 85*+. Turned it on last night and after 12hrs of continuous running the best it could do was 45* jacket water temp. Now...

I have had what you described happen three times. Once was because I did not open it up and clear out the bit of trub and hops that settle into the racking port, and instead hooked the racking tube straight to the port and was going to pull my FG sample from there. It instantly plugged up...

Interested as well

Just about finished up my DIY poverty jacket and insulated lines. Got some flexible rubber pipe insulation from home depot and covered all silicon lines coming in and out of the BIAC and aquarium heater/chiller. Got a 48x80" sheet of high quality neoprene for about $50 shipped and made a...

I've been using just a barbed tri-clamp hose directly do the 3-in-1 lid, but have since purchased the adapter fitting and corny keg post, mostly because I use a second tank of CO2 to move the beer and it's nice to be able to quickly use it to force carb kegs waiting in line for the keezer...

How has the pump held up? Thinking about building this exact same thing.

In leiu of the Neoprene jacket not being available until late summer I'm going to attempt to (crudely) make my own from a sheet of neoprene and some plastic zippers. I'll post up when it's complete. I also plan to get some pipe insulation for all of the silicon hoses reciruclating the water...

I guess I was mostly worried about the effects of such a heavily hopped beer creating some off-flavors while sitting on the hops all through fermentation.

Just finished up brewing with the new 316SS butterfly valves from Glacier on the dump port and racking port. Brewed "Hop Fu" with about 13oz of hops before the boil and forgot to put whirfloc in. Unfortunately I still managed to plug the dump valve up and even with jamming a knife and keg dip...

To bump an old thread - What mills are you guys using specifically for your RIMS/HERMS setups? I've been using a plain cereal killer with the 1.25" rollers and am deciding on either the MM2-Pro with the 2.0" rollers or a MM3-Pro w/2" rollers. I think either one will be a good upgrade and not...

It depends on a few factors but according to Nathan the medium BIAC mash tun can hold approximately 45lbs of grain.

What happened to the map?

How do you properly pitch the correct amount of cells with just a slurry? Best guesstimate off calculators?

Have a how-to or post explaining your process? I'm guessing you just create a big starter, or step up a small one, and then pitch the slurry into varius cleaned/sanitized mason jars and store them in the fridge or freezer until ready for use?

Maybe I'm perceiving quality by variety, since I feel a lot of my beers have the same taste profile (dur). I am also not afraid of throwing some $ at equipment if it makes it easier, saw a few threads with pressure canning in mason jars to have wort ready at any time to throw into a starter -...