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@LittleRiver That is a nice mill mount, should survive all but the worst trip and falls during milling...and keep the mill where it belongs...

HDPE 50 gallon barrel? Some LHBS shops get bulk LME in these and give them away...

While mash temp and mash thickness are relevant here, I think grain selection and yeast choice should be the focal point. Jmo And while you can certainly heat your full volume of water and save some for the sparge, some find it much easier to just cold sparge .... works well Upside of hot...

Sure you can leave out the sparge step as you will extract a little less sugar from the grain, aka lower efficiency. Moving forward, adjust the total water to hit volume desired, and grain weight to hit desired gravity. This is done by trial and error sort of, then when you learn where your...

Bag press is just more unnecessary gingerbread imho. If unable or you don’t want to use a pulley hoist to let the bag drain.... Set your bag in a bucket or tub or large cooler with an inverted mixing bowl in the bottom to let the bag drain and not sit in a puddle of wort. After 20-30 minutes...

The attachment for the kitchen aid mixer claims to do both, but not all that well for big $$$ It’s really 2 different tools, Corona maybe worth a try

A worthwhile water volume check during the mash is to measure your first runnings volume, then subtract that from your pre boil volume and you will have your sparge volume.

Mid sixties is a good temp...I would be cautious adding heat or blankets as the fermentation will produce heat and the actual beer may climb approx 10 degrees above ambient temp. With blankets perhaps even higher.

Not much help, but I would think and hope a 20 pound tank would get a batch done, guessing about ten pounds. Can’t imagine how set up and break down of natural gas would be difficult.... Do they offer quick connect idk.... Hooking up a flex natural gas feed once installed isn’t any more...

Running a fan and keeping the air moving in your room should reduce condensation on the ceiling. Venting the steam outside likely better, but a simple fan moving the room air should avoid the heavy steam laying up against the ceiling and condensing.

That is a nice fitting bag i must say lol :)

Many have received these tanks and have been satisfied, if it wasn’t as pictured I’d think many would be crying...instead of celebrating :)

By my eye the FB with the holes looks to provide more “open area” for wort to flow. “Reduces channeling” ? By being more restrictive idk [emoji52]q The included high flow elbow is a plus imo...eliminates potential clogging nightmares...

I don’t think clipping a fan on the side of the kettle is a good idea. If you don’t want to use your steam slayer or build a hood, I would place a fan, just about any mid size desktop fan in the near vicinity of the kettle blowing across the top of kettle....any gentle air movement will break...

Breweries typically separate hot side and cold side activities and equipment. A bucket to add water to your HLT need not be sanitized as it is hot side. Milling grain into a bucket, then using it as a fermenter is not advisable imo, even if sanitized prior. This comes up occasionally as...

Something as simple as a $20 box fan blowing air above your kettle could possibly eliminate the condensation you experienced. The steam just constantly huts that area and condensates. Mixing it w some room air might make all the difference.... Cracking a window or two would also help...

Filtering trub can be difficult, many attempts have failed miserably as trub is part sticky gelatinous protein, think egg drop soup w hop matter mixed in makes a perfect plug ... While hops can form a filter bed, pellet hops won’t. Ymmv Also, fwiw your recirc wort path doesn’t make sense to...

Are you fully opening the valve to the tank on the regulator? That should be fully open and seated at the open limit, not just partially open to allow gas flow.

What are you saying? A potential buyer of a $1700 piece of lab glass isn’t shopping on Craigslist or Homebrewtalk classifieds :)

I say 10 gal ketttle fwiw