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Jalapeno Habanero Blonde Ale... aka Hot Blonde (different than the Basic Blonde that came from the same batch) Background flag came from my time at Norfolk Naval Shipyard as the docking officer... I was point-man during the 2016 Hurricane Matthew... it was ripped from a flag pole at the yard...

Brewed 11 gallons of a Light American Lager... not because I particularly like BMC, but because it's a good way to make a starter for a Baltic Porter. Brew day photo album

Lots of things tonight... cause it's a brew day: NEIPA: Cider: Milk Stout:

25 lbs Golden Promise (2.0 SRM) 1 lbs Crystal 60 (60.0 SRM) 1 lbs Crystal 120 (120.0 SRM) 2.0 oz East Kent Goldings (3.2% AA) - 120 Minutes Imperial Tartan (A31) + 2L starter Mash at 150'F for 60 minutes This beer was made to take advantage of my club's Barrel Project program. It is being...

I could squish my 3-vessel system together to fit on the 48" table with no valve issues... but my mash tun is bottom drain and on stilts

I don't have to keep cleaning them, just seemed prudent since that was the root cause of the problem. I checked resistance with my multimeter at the contacts themselves and through the new plug. The resistance is in spec and consistent now. If you are suggesting that I stop cleaning contacts...

Why's that? Was replaced two brews and a solid test run ago, same time I started cleaning the contacts.

Two brews in after scuffing up the contacts on my element before each brew and no more issues with the plug getting too hot. Sucks that they needed to be cleaned up from new, but at least I've got the solution to my problem.

Today I brewed 11 gallons of 1.062 OG Milk Stout. 87% efficiency with very little manual effort required. It was a good day.

Throwing a milk stout in the fermenter now that my club's barrel project saison is done fermenting... just got to kill off all the imperial rustic so the milk stout doesn't dry out too much. Knew there was a reason I had some iodophor on hand...

An ammeter would be handy, for sure... but my little control panel has just enough room for the necessary components as it. The relay is below the pump and element switches, the PID controller extends nearly to the bottom of the box, and the SSR takes up the other wall. I should have went...

Finally getting around to replacing the plug and checking resistances... It does look like the culprit could be something causing poor connection between the plug and the element. Both of the elements that had problems meter out at around 11 ohms, which should be right... but had trouble...

I'm pretty good at sticking my foot in my mouth sometimes... totally missed that the turn-key controller he was looking at was 3-wire.

As a counter-point, going to a 4-pin receptacle gives you a neutral, so you can plug in a control panel that provides 2 120v circuits (pumps!) from the single 240v circuit.

Three different brands... I remember the second plug was damn expensive at lowes because I needed it that day... which ones have actually worked well for you? I'll check that. Out of curiosity, do you happen to have a standard resistance value for the 5500w elements? Back of the envelope...

I have a 10-gallon 3-vessel HERMS setup using one heating element in the HLT and one in the boil kettle. The elements are 5500w tri-clamp style with integrated L6-30 plugs like the one below: I power them using a single-channel PID controller built with an Auber SYL-2362, 50-amp ssr, and...

Sounds like a hoppy saison.

I got halfway through the first page and had to ignore JOHNNYROTTEN... the onlyest person I've ever ignored on any web-forum ever... Private property is sacred. If you are doing something that infringes on someone else's property, you ask permission first. Period. "Ehrmagerd! It's too hard...

Today, I kegged my five gallon share of Barrel Aged Maple BarleywIne (BAMBI) from my club's barrel project sub-group. It's currently cask conditioning with a primer of Grade A Robust/Dark maple syrup... even though it didn't need any more maple flavor. :ban: There's something to be said about...

I'm using 1.4 as well... would like to import up to date yeast databases and up to date BJCP guidelines though.