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I ended up deciding to go with mild steel with a 2000 degree rustoleum coating for my my stand top.

This is the electric heat stick I bought. Be careful - note how it's only two prong. I'm not using a GFCI outlet either - definitely something you might want to do.

...I'm bookmarking that link, thank you VERY much. Going full automation won't be for some time. Probably not until I'm a home owner. If and when...I'll probably end up with a full electric system from Stout Tanks, running most likely on a BCS or Brewtroller.

Oh, how I wish I were buying from the states. Our options in Canada are $18 for 2-piece vs $30 for those 3-piecers. My cheapest option actually is to buy some stainless union fittings and use those to line up the valves.

For clarity, this is what the keggles look like.

The threads themselves pick up a lot of gunk - I'll be fully disassembling once a season for that reason. Truly ideal would be a fully triclamp setup, but that is outside my means.

You can do that with 2-piece valves and a pair of plumber's wrenches.

Update: finished the flow diagrams for the various stages (fill, strike, mash, sparge, boil, chill). Cutting the strut this week and constructing the stand next week!

I'm not automating, all the valves are generic 2-piece 1/2" full bore ball valves. All my plumbing is 1/2" pipe threaded stuff. I would've gone with triclamp but it's prohibitively expensive for me. In the above picture, the line coming off the bottom of the pots IS the drain pipe. It...

Bottom drain means I don't have to take it apart to clean, and also means that mash tun dead space isn't a thing. After brewing, I run water, pbw solution, water again, then star san or iostar, and let drip dry thanks to the bottom outlet. I've had mixed results with the boil kettle so far - I...

This design is the culmination of all the know how I've gained from spending a frankly irresponsible amount of time in this board. Big thanks for inspiration go to Kal, BlackHeart, JonW, AugieDoggy, and several others. I can't claim any real originality here - I've just ripped off the best...

That person wasn't always a guest account. I'm making a guess here that, for whatever reason, his forum account was downgraded. I've exchanged PMs with him before. I think the fact that even Five Star doesn't advertise it as an all-purpose sanitizer is key here. Just like Onestep is...

Quoted from https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=24725.15 "It does not matter how well one cleans when the microbe is yeast or mold. Star San cannot kill these microorganisms due to its mode of action. Dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (the active ingredient in Star San)...

1. Most of the people critiquing his work have no idea what a confidence interval is. 2. You always have to self-filter the good stuff. Critical thinking is a life skill of which the vast majority of us are sorely lacking. Eh, even peer reviewed research is a crap shoot. I've seen...

Can you speak to the reliability of your setup? It's been a year and a half now. I'm looking to use the same parts for my brew stand and I'm worried about the wire melting.

I think a question you may want to ponder is "how computer and electric-savvy am I?" Another one is "How involved in my brew day do I want to be?" Rather than take a look at the setups here, maybe see if you can visit someone with a kal-clone or a full automated setup to see what it's like.

Lots of problems with whirlpool vs dry hop. No mention of yeast biotransformation of oils (ie, the flavor profile from pre-fermentation hop additions will be DIFFERENT than post-fermentation hopping!) No mention of alpha acid isomerization temperature or boil-off temperature of volatile hop...

Empirical data > anecdotes and lore. Discussing his methodology, results, or statistical analysis is all well and good, but any competing theory or idea must be evaluated to the same rigor. So...if you want to argue the null hypothesis, prove it.

Brulosopher's done a good job of: 1: showing that ability to "taste" basically can't be trained. Either that, or BJCP employs low standards regarding tasting ability. 2: putting generally accepted processes to the test. Too much of home brewing precepts and standards are simply lore. Taking...

CPUs get pretty danged hot. I don't know if I'd put boiling water through it though.