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Here is a page describing the process......... I personally consider it a bit absurd. Accuracy is liable to be poor without extremely high quality devices, and a closely controlled and corrected procedure. https://www.bellinghamandstanley.com/ltd/abv_kit.html And it begs the question...

I've been doing electrical all my life, and it never occurred to me that someone would wire a light or anything else in series unless they were looking for a resistance............. Goes to show that one cannot assume anything when amateurs are doing wiring. (no insult intended) A schematic...

I did a recipe today that called for a dark candi sugar. I made my own using my own procedure, which results in a dark candi syrup instead of a hard sugar like Belgian candi sugar. The process was to take a quantity of sugar, half a pound in this case, mix it with some citric acid, and add...

Put yourself in their shoes............. Having spent many tens of thousands of dollars to order a container load of these vessels from China, they have a product that is junk, and are out a LOT of money. The original scaled up beautifully. the leakage issue is merely a matter of not applying...

DO NOT BUY ONE I recently purchased a 2 gallon Fast Ferment, having good luck with the larger 5 gallon version. I was excited about it, as I like to brew small, and the size is ideal. Unfortunately it simply does not work. The problem cannot be corrected without a redesign. The...

Do you have 240 volt coils on your contactors, 120 volt coils, or 24 volt coils? The place to start is at the coils, and verify that you have the correct voltage across each coil. Test right there when the contactor is supposed to be energized. The contactor should audibly click, and it...

I would never have started this thread had I known someone I find absolutely loathsome and contemptible was going to speak out against the Me Too movement. I have not found the actual quote, but I suspect that it includes the assertion that there are many fine rapists..... As a result I have...

I've read that piece, and it is my opinion that the airline was not responsible for the girl flushing the hampster at all. Someone may have made an offhand comment, such as "you can go flush it for all I care, but you are not allowed to carry it on the plane." ........... But it's not even...

Yesterday I brewed an extremely light pilsner type brew using Saas. Lacking pilsner malt, I used two row and some sugar to keep it extremely pale. I wanted to add some carapils to rescue it from having too little body, but didn't have that either, so I did my 15 minute "inline mash", which...

Note that the threaded boss does not match up to the threads of any of the spigots for brew buckets or ice tea jugs. It also does not match pipe thread, so it's obviously a proprietary thread......... which sucks!! H.W.

I've decided to buy 2 3 gallon fast ferments. I picked up the first today, and am hoping to get someone to trade me for my 7 gallon (barely used). The quality appears excellent, and Fast Ferment has a new tubular gasket in the lid, a far better design than the crummy thin flat foam...

The flow of fresh water in the Columbia is so large and powerful that a fresh water plume extends far out to sea, with virtually no tidal salt water intrusion into the mouth of the river. The definition of estuary is the area where fresh and salt water mix at the mouth of a river. In the...

Any large river that dumps into the ocean should be "fair game" once it leaves the land. While I like many Montana residents resent the influence California transplants often have here, the truth is that I care about California and what it offers to America and the world in so many ways. It...

This is a complete 7 gallon Fast Ferment setup with wall bracket. The wall bracket is attached to a 2x4 stand that I used for a tabletop setup. I also installed a spigot for bottling. I used this fermenter for a continuous brew project for a few months. I would draw off 2 gallons for...

Despite our squabbles of various sorts, Americans are all pretty much a big family as far as I'm concerned. We can't be indifferent to the travails suffered by fellow Americans in other parts of the country, and honestly call ourselves patriots or even Americans. Floods, Fires, Drought...

My no boil / no chill from yesterday seems to have come out quite well thus far. I did a bit of a variant, using the sous vide exclusively for the process. I heated my strike water with it, and did my pseudo boil to 170F with it. The variation was that I held the wort at 170 for a full...

I'd say that it's possible that you ARE bonkers. Doesn't matter anyway...... assuming your spouse is female, you are automatically wrong AND bonkers. "If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman around to hear him........ is he still wrong?" (author unknown)...

You guys sure know how to make a simple job complicated!!! Just plug in and go .......... what's so complicated about that? 2&4 are feeding the sub panel, that gives you 30 amps on that circuit, regardless of what the breaker on the sub panel is. Why eliminate the sub panel at all...

The challenge is not one of making good beer, but of making the crystal clear brews we all seem to like. With no boil / no chill this would probably require filtration. But there is nothing at all wrong with hazy beer. Today I'm making a "kitchen sink beer"......... basically throwing in...

I live in an area of virtually unlimited water.... crystal clear sweet water straight from the nearby Crazy Mountains flows from my well as fast as I can pump it. That however does not keep me from being concerned about the water crisis in other parts of the country and world. Most...