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"Keep in mind that every day you drink soda from aluminum cans (though most are lined) and eat food prepared in aluminum cookware – it is safe." If aluminum is perfectly safe why do they have to line the cans? There has to be a reason to separate the food with the can right? Companies...

The use of aluminum in acidic conditions has loosely been connected with Alzheimer's disease. If it were brass or stainless it would be perfect (and 3 times the price).

I have never tried this on a glass but, I know Easy-Off (the oven cleaner, not the as seen on tv crap with the terrible infomercial) takes lettering off of vehicles without damaging the clear coat. You just spray it on and apply a little heat. A blow dryer works a heat gun is better. After a few...

I don't know if beer balls are still sold but when I saw this it brought back fuzzy memories of them. They sell the tap for 5$ in the link below. You just need to get the specific bung with 2 holes. Has anybody tried this...

Where did you buy the plastic pump?

Looks great.

Correction, when all 3 outputs are on, the latent heat is causing the PV to go up. When alarms (other outputs) are off the PV goes down to 3 deg F above actual temp. Any ideas?

Hello, I am building a controller with a MYPIN TA4. I am having trouble with the initial setup so that it reads accurately. It is erratic at one moment and steady but high the next moment. The poorly translated instructions are no help. What are your hy1, hy2, pvf, p, I, d, oud, hys, ctl...

There is stuff out there called natural coffee distillate. I know, it's not like adding cold brewed fresh coffee to your beer like you would a stout or porter. But it's clear, mostly used by bakers to give coffee flavor to white frosting. It may be a good option to give the flavor you want...

This makes it seem like it was right out of the cooler.

What I'm trying to explain is that your hydrometer is calibrated to one temperature. If your readings were taken above or below that temp you have to adjust by adding or subtracting what the hydrometer actually says. For example if you mashed at 153 and took the reading right out of your MT and...

If you're sure you had a good crush, hit your mash temp, and mash for the right time, my question is are you reading your hydrometer right? I'm not being condescending in any way but as I was reading your posts I was thinking you didn't compensate for temp with your readings. Here is a...

I know that they are a shade on the pricey side, but is there anything you could need for any brewing DIY that they don't have? I was just on there trying to find something I have bought elsewhere and couldn't find a thing. Everything from valves to weld less bulkhead fittings to metal stock.

I have been lucky, I just ask at breweries in my area. I tell them I'm a home brewer and describe what I'm building and I have been able to score 2 kegs free. If the brewery uses leased kegs like micro star they can't give them to you. Both the kegs I got (from separate places) had the pickup...

Do you have any pics? I'd like to see how you wired the laptop charger in. Thanks.

I know you are looking to build this one your own, but if you were looking for one commercially produced to use as an example blichman makes the "tower of power". It's really expensive about 600$. If you by the controller and stand with the pump the total is about 1500$ or so. I wish I was rich...

I just got one of these for free and I am in the works of making it into a RIMS mash tun. I was also concerned that it was aluminum. I took it to my friend who is a welder and knows a lot about metallurgy. He cut the top off with a plasma and tried to weld a small piece of aluminum to it. On the...

Correct me if I mis understood, but I thought his concern was bottles exploding after he bottled? That generally is a result of over carbonation, either due from too much priming sugar or the beer still actively fermenting when it goes into the bottles causing them to over pressurize and break...

I think your real risk is cracking the plastic more thank anything from the rapid temp change. I think it would be better to just stick your pot in the snow, being careful to not get snow in the top, and stir. The cold entering the pot and the wort moving past that will cool it quick. Living in...

How did you carb the bottles? what priming sugar and how much did you use? how did you add the priming sugar? I have had bottle bombs before but it was as a result of a total rookie mistake. I was trying to have a beer ready for a party, so I bottled before I got a stable FG. As a result the...