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And you consider this a bad thing? :confused:

I still have a bunch of pellets to use, so I 'm thinking a big tea ball (I have a basket looking one that's 4" in diameter) might do the trick.

My dial "cooking" thermometer and my floating glass one are both off. The dial one reads low 2 degrees at both boil and in ice water and the glass one is off by at least 6 degrees too high in ice water. At least the Brewmometer on the kettle has an adjustment screw, so I can trust that one...

Blichmann doesn't recommend the false bottom in a boil kettle, just for a mash tun.

I guess I'm kinda lucky. My wife works in a university library that isn't going anywhere considering the kind of bling bling that college pulls down (and her boss is the pres of the American Library Association to boot), and I work as a web monkey and sysadmin type for a company handling 10 of...

One thing I found out the hard way is that silicone won't stick to polyethylene, which coolers are made of. It'll look like it's stuck on, but it'll peel off if you pull on it.

Therminator: Thrumometer: Cooled wort in a new Better Bottle - retiring the buckets and glass carboys: Yeasties doing their thing earlier today:

March pump mounted to an old desk drawer. It sounds weird, but it's portable and it works. The pump is connected to a remotely controlled switch so I can flip it on and off via a control I keep in my pocket. Pumping the runnings from the mash tun to the boil kettle: Boiling the...

Got a bunch of new stuff in recently and got to use it on its inaugural batch yesterday. My calcs were a little off, but I expected that since I had never done an actual batch with it yet and had only done runs with plain water. On to the pics! 10 gallon BoilerMaker Inside of the pot...

Mash tun is off-screen

Frame for the pump is an old desk drawer