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I brewed an imperial stout with OG of 1.109. I thought I got stuck around 1.045ish but it turned out I just didn't know how to use my brand new refractometer. So I added some high gravity yeast in an effort to get it to 1.035ish but....well the second yeast addition worked too well and got me...

Don't you have a stuck nut then? How do you get that off?

I recently got a blichmann and wouldn't consider anything else, I love it, and this is coming from someone who has gone through a lot of pots that didn't meet my expectations. Never had a mega though....

I found a pretty good article about plate chilling and the desire to go back to IC, good read. http://www.love2brew.com/Articles.asp?ID=455

Honestly, I didn't have room to put it anywhere else, so I put it on there for maybe 5 minutes tops while I cleaned up my bench a bit. I didn't even fully put it on, just about 3/4 and the stupid thing still melted. Yeah, I'm concerned about that as well, especially with the mesh screen size...

I might try this before blowing it all up. I made that contraption about 4 months ago but melted it after I put the lid on the BK. Lesson learned.... You say you put camlocks in place, what about the leftover liquid inside the plate? I can never seem to get mine totally dry and I think that...

I am leaning toward doing just that, like I said, I can keep throwing money at a solution that may or may not prevent clogging in my plate and adding another 20 min to post brew cleaning, or go back to basics and throw the IC in the boil. I thought the trub filter would work and it does to a...

I have a therminator and it worked well until it got clogged once during a transfer. That sucked. I then bought a trub strainer to keep gunk out of the chiller. (This is the one I bought. http://www.brewershardware.com/FILTER1.html.) I was brewing an IPA with pellet hops last weekend and well...

Thanks all for the diagnosis. I've never made a beer this big before and it seems I messed up at multiple points. The brew itself was fine, hit all my temps and my hydrometer is working fine, verified it with a couple buddies, it seems my yeast starter, choice of yeast and lack of oxygen stalled...

I didn't aerate it like I should have. I have an O2 tank that malfunctioned that day and I had to just give it a shake, so that's probably the root cause of the issue.

could I add more yeast at this point or is it too late?

The first week I kept it at around 68 and then the past two weeks RT, which was around 72.

I searched many a thread and still can't figure out what to do. I brewed an imperial stout on 9/22, so about 3 weeks ago. It's still in primary. My gravity going into the fermenter was 1.104 using a 2L starter of London ESB yeast that never seemed to take off. I added another smack pack after a...

How did you mount the larger banjo? Any part number you can offer? That's exactly what I wanted to do....

Do you have a link or part number? Also, how hard or easy is it to clean the element in this tube?

OK great! I might do a SS rig then! I'm not sure about shipping prices, I know they have stores all over the South, this one is only 10 min from my house.

Is this strut ok? It has a 10 piece minimum order but it's pretty cheap. http://www.mayerelectric.com/itemDetailFilterPH.action?codeId=1065355 OR http://www.mayerelectric.com/itemDetailFilterPH.action?codeId=1196772 The second one isn't galvanized, it's PERMA-GREEN low carbon steel, whatever...

I recently converted a keg to bottom drain and use as a mash tun. I have a 15" false bottom that works great, however, it seems like I have about .75 gallons of water underneath the false bottom where there is not contact with the grains. Using ~1.5 q to 1lb of grain, my mash is very thick...

THK-233 strut brackets are on backorder from GP-LLC until late august, anyone know of an alternative?