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It didn't lose grip at all and you can lower it completely to the ground if needed to check for disease and pests or trim dead parts as long as you don't lose grip of the loose end and let the rope fall completely through the carabiner. The bines are very resilient as long as you don't bind them...

I'm not sure if this has been covered before but I wanted to tell everyone how I have my hops set up and maybe save some work for some people. When planning my hop trellis I wanted to have a system that would make hand picking easy and safe. To be safe, I would need to keep both feet on the...

Insulating the pot makes all the difference. Wrap a towel around it and try again to see the difference.

If you have 2 20 amp circuits ten you have more to work with than I do and I regularly make 6.5 gallon batches. I have 2 15 amp circuits and use 2 1500 watt heat sticks. It takes about the same amount of time to heat water as my propane did, once I insulated my vessels with reflectix. The time...

I used a milk jug and taped the upper level of the water with electrical tape. I would pour in one gallon then tape and continue with the next. The marks were quite off from the quart marks that the pot came with on my little pot.

Don't let anyone tell you you can't do it on 120v, I've been doing it for a while now. I have 2 15amp circuits in my garage, and, with insulated (reflectix) vessels I have no issue doing 6.5-7 gallons into fermentor. The boil is not trying to jump out of the boil kettle, but it is a good boil...

A slight oxidation can cause metallic flavor. The wet cardboard is symptomatic of heavy oxidation. It is more likely that the op's problem is an oxidation problem than a kettle problem.

I don't think the vessel in which op boils is the issue, otherwise there would be a much more rampant problem of metallic taste. I think the mention of oxygen in op'a post is more right on. You should review your processes and reduce you likelihood of picking up oxygen post fermentation.

I've been brewing in the 3-4% range now for about a year. That is my ideal range. So far, I have found that the easiest beers to brew in that range are ipa and hefeweizen. The other styles tend to be difficult to get the flavor complexity that I want from a session beer. I'm not saying it's...

You aren't technically wrong. If you ferment at that temp you will make beer and the lagering process may clean it up a bit, but you will have a very estery mess of a beer, rather than a clean tasting lager. If you must ferment at these temps, try the steam yeast strain or a kolsch strain. These...

With that high abv beer I would expect that it would take much longer than 4 weeks to carbonate. What temperature have these bottles been at? I had a 5% beer once take about 6 weeks to carb because they were kept a little cool. Warm your beers up to 70-75 and leave them for another 4 weeks...

You could just leave it in the fermenter and let it settle after fermentation. Your volume loss should be about the same, maybe less. It will not negatively affect flavor and is much easier. The only thing I remove is hops with a nylon paint strainer bag. Now this does inadvertently remove some...

Die hard with a vengeance. Can't go wrong.

I had only 1 shoot that was trimmed. Evidently they thought it wasn't good and haven't touched them since. The word must have spread.

Also, it is a Mexican cerveza kit, can't have too high expectations. Most likely you were looking for that crisp taste of a lager and what you made was most likely an ale with a warm fermentation. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Yeah rims and two electrified keggles. One will be hlt and the other bk. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I still think you'll have a little bit of trouble doing a full boil at only 2000w, depending on your beginning volume. I full boil 5.5 gallon batches, doing so I need to start boil with almost 7 gallons of wort to get there. I use 2 1500w sticks and I get a weak boil to begin. As I begin to lose...

The key is know which model you have... Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Never mind y'all. I got it working! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I have a watlow 93 pid controller that I can't seem to get working. I have power to the unit but not out if the ssr. Here is the wiring diagram from the manual, my unit is the first listed. My ssr is a watlow 240v 25 amp and the control side is dc ranging from 3 to 32 v. Does anyone have any...