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Are you referring to the temp probe on the RIMS tube? If you are then does your controller have a calibration function? A way around it would be to initially set your set point 5 degrees under your set point.

I don't stir my mash during recirculation, I have a thermowell in my mash tun and it takes about 5 to 10 minutes to stabilize to the temp readout on the PID controller. When it is stabilized, I can obtain mash temps within 1 deg. F. By recirculating the mash, the temperature should be...

I've been using a RIMS for several years now. The first thing that I do is to adjust the recirc flow before turning on the heating element. This will set the grain bed and establish a flow throught the RIMS tube. Once the flow is established I turn on the element and keep a close eye on the...

I use the tap cooler with a tower. The extension tube is useful if you want the bottle to rest on a flat surface.

Looks similar to the Austrian Pils that I brewed, however I didn't use any corn. For my hops I used Magnum (60 min boil), Select Spalt (10 min boil), and Saphir (dry hopped). The beer was similar to Stiegl Pils.

... and get rid of the teflon tape on the MFL fittings.

Thanks for the info! Does the fan reduce the cycling time of the keezer?

I question if a keezer fan is necessary. The way I look at it is that the beer is drawn from the bottom of the keg (provided a floating dip tube is not used), so if the keezer temps are slightly colder at the bottom would adding a fan make any improvements? If so how?

The leak may be from the seal between the primary regulator and the tank. I prefer the nylon washer style gasket over the small o-ring style.

I agree that the 4" 3-tap tower looks clunky. Here is a photo of my 4" 4-tap T tower which has a 3" horizontal section.

Thanks for sharing!

When my plate chiller requries a "deep cleaning" I let it soak with BLC (at the recommended concentration) over night and rinse well with warm water. By soaking, I use a syringe to fill the wort side of the plate chiller and let it sit facing up, as opposed to submerging it into a bucket.

More info needed: Did you transfer to a secondary fermenter or add fruit to the primary? Are you bottling or kegging? For my ciders I use a glass carboy for the primary and a corney keg for the secondary which I add my fruit (blueberries or cherries). From the secondary I transfer to another...

I was thinking that the muffins were sacrificial to keep the mice away from the grains.🤔

Picture of my "new" used beer tap tower. It came equipped with a gycol cooling line, I put a small container of water with a 200 GPH pond pump to recirculate cold water through the cooling line which broght down the beer temp 6 deg. Now the beer temp from my tap tower matches the beer temp...

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For my smaller bags of grain (< 20#) I store them in my Vittles vault. For my large bag of two row (>50#) I store them in my 70 qt rectangular mash tun.

For a glycol system to work efficiently the shank should be equipped with a cold block and the beer lines are usually stainless steel from the shank through the base of the tower. In your case the cold blocks are not suited for your 2 tap 3" tower nor is the distance for a glycol system...

As I started to approach 60 a few years ago I decided to work smarter not harder. Now that I brew in my basement I don't have the ability to gravity transfer so I use my pump to transfer between my boil kettle and mash tun as well as transfering from boil kettle to fermentor. Since I started...