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...and for clarity (no pun intended), RIMS and HERMS are really more of "add-ons" rather than "types". Plenty of good-beer-brewing folks out there don't use that step and prefer controlling the temp with a burner under the MLT or simply letting it all sit unattended in a well-insulated vessle...

I have a two-tier setup and one pump. I use the top tier as the HLT. When I start out, I heat up my strike water and also the water in my heat exchange tank. I gravity-feed my strike water into the MLT as I add my crushed grain to it. When mixed, I pump it through my heat exchange...

That's looking very nice!!

I was in a similar boat when I built mine. I'm much more familiar with woodworking than metal, but I wanted to learn. I went out and bought a little mig welder, chopped up an old Soloflex for metal, and taught myself to weld. Just pick up a grinder when you're buying your welder, and...

You could get a good start with something like this maybe... I've seen them in the store, but already had my brew stand needs fulfilled so I didn't look all that close at the quality/size...

Anything different network-wise (from a hardware standpoint) between your computer and SWMBO's laptop? Like maybe she connects wirelessly to a WAP where you're wired in to a different router? Share the same cable modem or DSL line (or whatever) if so? Have you tried rebooting everything...

It's lookin' like a fermentation cabinet now! :mug:

I haven't yet tried filling bottles from a keg, but I believe that's the idea Dycokac... You get the bottle up to pressure so the CO2 stays in suspension, then you control the flow into the bottle by releasing some of that pressure. Less pressure in the bottle allows more beer to flow in. The...

I'm new to kegging and purchased a 20lb tank from Micromatic a couple of weeks ago. The welding shop I took it to for a fill evidently work mostly with exchanges and assumed that's what I had asked for. When I went out to the truck and got it out, a couple of them came out and looked at it...

For the sake of covering the obvious, are you sure they actually got you a full tank last week? I haven’t used a 5lb tank, so I don’t know how heavy a full one is compared to an empty one. If it’s an unmistakable difference (I have a 20lb aluminum tank that falls into that category) then...

Awesome! Any SWMBO tips for how to go about taking over half the garage?

I asked some similar questions here the other day and the group consensus was pretty much to age at fermentation temps until you're about ready to consume it, then force carb it. More details in this thread.

I don't recall if you were planning on having a "back" to all of this or leaving it open, but you might consider that too for a solution to your horizontal stability concern.... Just a sheet of thin plywood or masonite will go a long way to stabilize things.

Thanks Ab, Your process is pretty much what I (inadvertantly) did with these last two batches since I wound up leaving them in the secondary so much longer than I normally do. I guess in a roundabout way while typing all of this up, I was starting to wonder if extending time in secondary...

Does it need to be food-grade? Regular air hose fits the bill if not... http://www.airhoseshop.com/site/932654/product/RR14x25-300

Finally got enough honey-do's out of the way to get going on this, huh?! :rockin:

See, I guess that's where I'm still a little fuzzy.... I failed to mention in my first post that I decided I was switching to kegging while I had these first two batches in secondaries. I wasn't able to scrape all of the funds together for the hardware for several weeks, so these two spent...

I did something sort of along these lines.... 3 chambers for fermenting at individual temps, one to cool water that I pump through one of three radiators in each of my fermentation chambers. Each chamber has its own set of temperature sensors that eventually tie to a relay that toggles on/off...

Howdy all, I have some general kegging questions that I haven't found a solid answer on in all of my reading so far. I kind of expect to get a lot of different opinions, but I figured I would ask anyway... I just kegged my first two batches this past Friday and early indications are that...

Heh... That never crossed my mind. I've probably got a few of those in the garage even. :D Time to purge out a few more weak brain cells..........