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I have a direct fire system with a Herms coil in the HLT. I never used the herms coil in the HLT but manually light and shut off my burner under the MT with a very low flame at 1 degree Celsius variation. I do this as I can’t figure out how to bring the strike water to temp in the HLT, fill...

Hi all fellow brewers. Well I finally completed my diy glycol chiller with a 5000 btu air conditioner. I brewed a strawberry rhubarb wit ale last week to test it with my FTS2. The thing works like a charm so now I am thinking of trying to brew a Heineken lager clone for my first time and was...

THanks Mcomb. Not sure how the whole hops is added and creates the bed. Can you explain your process? Cheers

Thanks trooper. Always felt a bag wouldn't release the full good flavor. Gravity isn't an option too heavy. I only whirlpool 10-15 as temp falls quickly and 180 is my target during whirlpooling

Timmy do you think I should rest longer than 10 - 15 after whirlpool?

Just asking a question

Chiller not problem. Really neither is my dip tube

Next step is building my own counterflow I can clean

Immersion chillers and plate chillers are junk compared to a convoluted chiller

Whirlpooling 10-15 and resting 10-15

Yeah that's what I thought too. Bazooka screen is a nightmare.

i usually brew 10 gal batches on my propane brew rig. i have 2 keggles (one for HLT and one for MT) and a SS Brewtech boil kettle (which i love). i just added a whirlpool port to centralize the trub before transferring to the fermenter but it there is still a lot of trub that passes into the...

Oops my carb stone is .5 micron and O2 stone is 2 microns

Thanks tri. Stone is .5 micron, hose length I have not decided yet (any thoughts)., I am thinking that a slow flow rate would be best (thoughts), wort temp I try for 70 F after the whirlpool.

Ok, so the point is I just purchased a flow meter and have an inline airstone from the chiller to fermenter. I also have been using pure O2 in the past using a wand not inline but sticking the thing into the triclamp hole in the lid but the wand is not long enough to go to the bottom and I...

Ok, fish pump it is with aeration not O2, inline from chiller to fermenter.

Goal is to have repeated consistency and from what I see the larger breweries can do so why not try to replicate process

I agree but the DO meter is pricy but I also found that a flow meter set at 0.5 - 1 l/min with an inline air stone will give similar results. I was just looking to see is anyone has tried this yet and what the outcome was.

Ps. I brew 10 and 15 gal batches. I cant shake in car boys due to weight.

I will post a picture of my brew rig with inline air stone when its ready for first use.