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I too have a bog-standard 25' copper chiller that currently sits in my kettle. Since I have a 5gal cooler for MAIB, I've taken to use the vessel to hold some ice and the original SS coil as a pre-chiller. Using reusable ice packs, so no need to purchase frozen water. It looks Rube Goldberg...

Wild eh? Back when computers were actually repairable, and required ALOT more mechanical expertise than nowadays. Your COBOL code better be lined up in the correct columns before you run that job! These were the days when a pocket calculator got folks to the moon (computation-wise), and bugs...

That lovely anti-knock substance: Tetraethyl lead. Not nearly as cool as Ethel Mertz tho, even in her 40s Vivian Vance was quite the looker! :cool:

Man, is it good or bad that I know what points are? Or ethyl 🤣 By the time I rolled around in the late 70s it was just "regular" next to "unleaded". More than a few times padre filled up the '79 K5 blazer with Regular, even tho it CLEARLY stated "Unleaded Fuel only". I'm sure the fumes...

Obligatory follow-up question: to those in this thread, how comfortable are you with folks being on your lawn? 🤣😂😅

I still have a 60Mhz Pentium with that bug! It runs at the full 5 volts so it's quite a good room warmer LOL! Honestly I didn't know during the time I was running Windows on it, but my first boot of Linux and it was right there in the message log.

I seem to recall Quattro Pro being one of the first spreadsheet programs to take full advantage of math co-processors. Those things really made a difference with 8088 and 286 processors, especially with AutoCAD (watching the space shuttle wireframe stock drawing re-render with the co-pro...

Interesting that they have ported 1-2-3 to run natively on Linux... In the past I've directed a few of my Raspberry Pi v3.0 to play with this project: Dosbian granted you're not running DOS on bare metal, it's all virtualized in DOSbox, but you can use cheap hardware and you can play with the...

I was aware of 4DOS's existence, but never used it. OTOH, I used DOS/4GW extensively when I was actively playing DOOM-esque games.

Mmmm, VC on the classic Apple II. Then AppleWorks. The first versions of 1-2-3 were alot faster, tho mostly due to the PC hardware it ran on, including more RAM. Speaking of PTSD, how about futzing with the AutoEXEC.bat and Config.sys files to make the most of that Expanded (EMS) memory...

For those of you that have purchased an aftermarket IC to replace/augment the SS chiller coil included with the kit, would you share what *displacement volume* you have seen when dropping the chiller into the kettle? Was looking at some tri-coil units, but not sure how it would limit my volumes...

I'm curious as to your filling/replacement options with a tank of this type/size. One hopes you have received it with a decent fill still. If it is close(r) to full it could last quite a long time! :)

Same here. Use waste RO water into a 23L keg to make a batch of starSan as I top off carboys for the next brew day. It stays clear in the keg this way for weeks for sure. I use prolly half during the current brew day and the rest to top off containers, misc cleaning, etc. One oz of starSan...

My kettle is approx 6.5g/24.6L so when I switched from extract to AG on batch #3, I took the cooler side route. My max batch size is 21L into the fermenter, so that informed my decisions as well. I got the smaller 5gal round and a brew bag. Ball valve+bulkhead was the only other expense...

Well, other than the yeast selection, this didn't really turn out to be much of a "Franken Bier" malt bill. All of my misc grains were already included in my Taddy Porter recipe aside from the 120L and Caramunich I, so this is a fairly standard porter. Handy, as it cleared my misc bucket with...

Does anybody with a 6.5 AF currently use one of the chillers made specifically for the All-In-One systems? The first two on my radar is the JaDeD Scylla & Cu S.S. AIO-Tri-Coil and I am sure there are others. Currently, since I already have a round cooler, I fill it with pre-made ice+water and...

The feeling is real :)

I've got a pair, and they work a treat! On mine the top weld line is almost exactly 21L/5.6gal, leaving plenty of headspace. Each keg can fill a standard 5gal corny keg to the gas post if you plan it right.

wait... there's a pizza making section here at HBT too! 🤣

You're frugal cuz you wanted to maintain "extras".... like that rental home. That takes alot of hard work and putting off your desires in the present so you can enjoy the future. Maybe you subconsciously place wings in that "not really worth the expense for what you get" category still out of...