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So, perusing ebay, I came across this. Combo temperature sensor and flow meter. Made of clear acrylic. Kinda neat. Could be useful for tuning your sparge.

Seals not sealing. Threaded fittings not lining up. Stupid amounts of time cleaning. Oh, and the amount of lore and opinion preached as fact and best practice.

Whelp, I'm going with black iron pipe all the way. Just found out Home Depot Canada will cut and thread it for me. Also since the burners are universally recommended to be 2" below the pot if running on natural gas, that's what I'm going with!

3 year old thread for the win! Couldn't find that type of fitting for the life of me. Exactly what I need.

So I'm making a brew stand out of channel strut. I now need to figure how to plumb it. I'm using 2x banjo burners. I'm planning to mount the burners on top of a piece of strut and adjust the height of that strut piece in order to control the height of the burners. I'm planning on controlling...

Fun update, I was misquoted...by a factor of 10. It was $9 per foot, not per 10 foot section.

Further updates: Holy hell is sandblasting expensive. Like "10x higher cost than the strut" expensive. Also: reach out to metals and electrical distributors online. I was able to get one to quote me stainless strut at $9/10'! Now I'm wondering what the hell to do with the 40 feet of...

Update: everything but the burner has sold. Bayou BG-14 still for sale, $100!

Ceramic coating apparently IS a common thing. I just googled "sand blast metal" put it into maps and found companies that do sand / soda blasting and various coatings.

Jeepilot: your results will depend on the sandblasting actually removing all or at least most the galvanic coating. One question for the general thoughts: I was quoted $30/piece (10' stick) for standard 1 5/8 strut made of aluminum. Do you all think this is worth it? I paid $15/10' for 4...

The following is for sale! I'm located in Toronto, ON, Canada. Pickup only, I don't have wheels. Note these prices are in Canadian dollars (currently $1 US is worth about $1.40 CDN) 9 gallon brew pot. Stainless steel. It has two welded 1/2" threaded ports (inside and outside). Standard...

Yeah I looked at a few, looks like 1/4 or even 1/8" through each knob. That won't do at all.

Hey guys, I'm designing my brew stand - single tier, three vessel, out of strut, and with dual banjo burners running on natural gas. It'll be largely manually controlled (I have a heat stick with PID controller for maintaining mash temps but that's it, the burners are controlled manually). I...

I like it! Looked fairly easy to make as well. Let me know how it handles! Are you going to treat the wood to seal it against water?

I bought the Blichmann LP to NG conversion kit for my Banjo burner. Worked perfectly. It's the right orifice size for any LP burner to run on NG.

Take a look at induction burners too. Also if you don't want to mildew/mold up your whole place, look at exhaust fans and venting.

Check craigslist/kijiji. I scored 8 last year at $175/pop (canadian). When wine stores and brew on premises stores go out of business, these appear.

So I've been playing with filtration. I've been using a 1 micron absolute rated ceramic cartridge, and a 5 micron pleated polypropylene cartridge. Here's what I've noticed: -The pleated polypropylene filter works fine. -The ceramic filter is inconsistent. It clogs...but I don't think it's...

No real "best" way. The basic idea is this: create a sustained flow of water along the outer side of a vessel and the solids in that vessel will begin collecting in the middle, eventually forming a cone. People use a dip arm, or a tangential inlet...there's a few ways. Dip arms are easier to...

Testing's shown that including the trub has beneficial effects on yeast help and esters in the ferment. People who try to clear their wort pre-ferment typically use whirlpooling. You can also use a converted keg as a kettle, which will of course have a domed bottom.