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does it cycle often? like after the however many minutes you have for a cycle guard on your temp controller?

same thing i do, that said i do lose some hop particles into the boil when i use a lot of hops.

so the fridge turns on right? it just wont drop to the temp you want?

ebay temp controller, just built one for like $35 ish? anyway by the time you get that it will be too late. Otherwise doesn't the ranco work for heat too? just reverse it since you wont have any problems cooling.

The burner goes right at the end of the rig, turkey fryer. $10 in wood, turned brew day into a much more enjoyable and easier affair.

vodka for sure, first for sanitation, but second because the alcohol extracts the flavor better. my chocolate kona porter is super chocolaty!

so before i read the whole thread i wanted to see if anyone could answer my question quickly. do you need to quickly cut and transfer the image after printing or can it be done over a couple of hours/days? IE you print out a sheet of like 24 images and you do 12 today and 12 tomorrow will there...

put a sleeve on it, but any more than 2 cornys in a fridge that has a door instead of a lifting bit will annoy the hell out of anyone.

wowza, if it holds pressure, id say bright tank. then get a few plastic 30 gallon fermenters.

i picked up a false bottom, works like a charm i regularly get 85-90% efficiency with this cooler and a false bottom. Obviously good crush and lautering comes into play but a false bottom works REALLY well. and honestly not that expensive.

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all the time, im like. lets do an irish red. grabbed some irish ale yeast, two row, crystal and roasted barley. bam! irish red... well kinda. but it got drank! hahah. one time we went into the home brew store, just started eating barley and went, lets do this, some of htis and some of that. had...

yeah ive been designing one in my head myself. essentially you have your source (keg, brite tank) then your filler, they split it 6 ways into the bottles. that is the simple part, that is obvious with this machine. so the dip tube goes through the stopper all the way to the bottom of the bottle...

i built a stand that hast he burner on the ground for under $20, its a simple design where everything lines up and makes my brew day much easier. plus i put some peg board on the side of it to hold stuff i need.

my buddy and i did this to a single faucet tower and turned it into a 3 faucet tower. works fine. just get the right drill bit. plenty of room.

or you could build a temp controlled heating element to heat your temp controller...

as far as im concerned as long as your valve is big enough not to get clogged with yeast you dont need the yeast catch, you just pull the yeast off... am i wrong on this? i thought the purpose of the yeast catch was to make sure you dont get a clogged valve.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/All-purpose-Temperature-Controller-STC-1000-sensor-il-/120801732162?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c20582642#ht_6418wt_1037 this type?

i got a white labs one at my lhbs.

happened to me too. im about to throw an Imperial Porter onto an Imperial Stout cake in a few days, blow off tube is a must.