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Dr. Jeff idea- Lamp socket, dollar store extension cord, coffee/paint can, light bulb, piece of tin foil. I use a 100 watt bulb and it will keep my 30 ft3 chamber at 72 with my garage in the mid 30s. Leviton Plastic Keyless Lamp Holder-R50-08829-CW4 - The Home Depot

That is exactly the part I like the best. My buddy has a absolutely no glass rule around his pool. It sucks to have to get out of the hot tub/pool to refill your plastic cup all the time. Plus no koozie to keep it cool. My second favorite part is when people crack the top take one taste and...

My wonderful wife heard me talking to the brewer at my local brewery. He was canning up a few crowlers for me to go. I said something to the fact that I was thinking about switching from bottles to cans. Well a week later a Cannular and two boxes of cans shows up at my house. Clearly...

Once StarSan starts to turn cloudy it rapidly loosing it's sanitizing properties. Has something to do with how it's reacting to calcium. If your tap water is hard you have a very short window for Starsan to be effective. I've noticed when it's turns cloudy it leaves a slimy layer behind on...

I had at least one pin in all three of my connectors move. I just slid it back into place. As long as the solder is good it should never be an issue. I call all of my solders, Gorilla solders! Big, Strong, and Ugly!

I'd say it really depends on how your system will be used. I built my system to be mobile, meaning I can move it around for use and moving back to store in my garage. Like beer4all said those cables are super fine and very fragile. If your planning on leaving your system fully connected and...

Now that I look, It does appear that there are two versions of the Cereal Killer. I wonder if they switched manufacturing plants and the quality has dropped off. If the bolt and nuts are backing out it's most likely the aluminum threads are striped. I'd bet it came from the factory that way...

I'm sorry, I had to hijack this thread. What issues did you have with the Cereal Killer? I've had one going on 8 years now and it crushes like a champ. My homebrew store has one for customers to use and it's had millions of pounds of grain through it with no issues.

Thread is so old it maybe dead. But, I had to dig it up. I've been trying to get a bottle or two of the Founds Red Rye IPA for ever. So if you can't find it! brew it! I took FullStop22 recipe and tweaked it little. Here what I call the RedRye Redemption. Mashing at 152 with all the...

Now the splitting of the brew day I understand. I just couldn't leave my mash sitting for that amount of time. My OCD about Critters getting in would drive me nuts.

I'm intrigued by this post but I got to ask why? With highly modified malts conversion happens in 20 minutes. You are using flaked corn which was gelatinize and then dried. It will covert pretty darn rapidly so an hour would be all that is needed. If you were trying to get every bit of...

Sent you a PM offer on the Auto Sparge.

Oh..yeah..the bigger you go the more yeast health and starters and O2 matters. Hard to underpitch when you only need only need 200 billion cells just pictch a smack pack. Well now you need 600 billion or more better start stepping up starters or brew a 5 gallon batch.

Well lets hope you get it right before 18. Let's say after 6 come back tomorrow.

Yes the colder the beer got the easier it is for CO2 to be absorbed. I would just turn the gas off pull the pressure relief to bleed off some of the CO2. Not all of it keep some positive head pressure to not let O2 in. Wait a few minutes or 5 for the beer to release some more CO2 then bleed...

I do. I try to run .5L for 1 minute (10 gallon batch).

I've had one going on 10 years. Still works like a charm. I clean and blast out any sanitizer after each use. I think it will last a life time at this rate.

Batch sparging doesn't really work if you have a false bottom. All your hot sparge water will run into the void and will not be in contact the grain bed. You will have to pump the sparge water out of the void and over the top of the grains to get any kind of efficiency. Essentially...

Shouldn't ruin the taste but it will affect utilization. The IBUs of the beer will be lower then what the recipe expects. Could make the beer unbalanced if utilization is really low. Boiling in a soup can is not really ideal for great hop flavors or extracting acids. I'd just throw the hops...

I'm all for American made but not at more than 4 times the cost. I bought a Cereal Killer 5 years ago and have put thousand of pounds of grains through it. I got it on sale for $89 bucks. It works great never an issue. The crush is important...Yes...but not $400 dollar important. I'd look...