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"That's the Mann Act..." sorry. thread about runnin beer thru the south and the mann act gets brought up? couldn't help myself

their bock logo may be my favorite of any beer.

I just did my first brew with a bobby m glass/thermo combo on my gravity fed hlt, and it was great to not have to climb the ladder to measure volume/temp. I am going to do a glass only on my kettle just cause i want it.

i have a pony size for my hlt, and the rubber does get warm to the touch. That tells me it could be better. I was thinking some of that peel+stick foam/foil stuff over top of the rubber would work pretty well.

Got it. too many homebrews last night...:drunk: :mug:

I see what you are saying. The box is a good system, but for me I always seem to have sealant around (own a house), made my cord plenty long to cut off and start again, the elbow is 97¢, and this is in my hlt so I am thinking it will last awhile. Just tryin to get what worked for me out there...

Sweet. glad to see this idea is working for different people in different ways. built not bought ftw!

I also wanted to avoid the electrical box on the keg, but it was because the rubber coated keg made it much more difficult to mount the box than a standard keg. Even if you pot the connections, the pvc elbow was so cheap, you can replace it at will much cheaper than the box setup. During my...

I hear what you are are saying, but I brew alone, the cable ends were tinned to make a solid connection, and I truly believe it would up-end the whole keg before any pulling apart of the connection would occur. I am just putting something out there that works for me that is cheap and easy. As...

Everything fits so well, there probably isn't enough room to do that, the compression fitting fits so tight it pretty much does the same thing. the weak point would be the pvc meeting the element, which is upstream of what a knot would accomplish anyway.

Sorry, I realized after re-reading my post it came back pretty defensive. The strain relief pretty much comes from the silicone and the cable connections being pulled at the same time because I pulled all the cable slack out of the elbow before tightening up the comp. fitting. I have already...

well, I pulled the cable taught before I tightened the comp. fitting, so if you pulled on the cable hard enough you would have to break the silicone seal (tenacious stuff) and then rip the wires from behind the screws, then pull the ground wire out of the lug. If after all that you were still...

I grounded it by soldering that copper ground lug (you can see it in the last pic) right to the keg when i soldered on the locknut that holds the element. I ended up using a brass locknut i had left over from a recent sink faucet install instead of the $8.00 bargain fittings one. The...

as I was roaming around the depot with element in hand trying pvc parts and whatnot, I came upon this guy: It is slip fit 1" on one side, and threaded 1/2" on the other. the slip fit is snug around the back of the element, and I threaded a 1/2" electrical compression fitting into the other...

The only rye I have tried was Blue Point Rastafa Rye, and I thought it was pretty good.

I got my first glass that I ordered not long after this thread popped up, but am waiting for my second that I put in for a few weeks later. I never buy the newcastle at the front of the rack in the frig, closest to the florescent tubes. I will pull out the 3rd or 4th in line to avoid the...

That seems to be the one. I guess it isn't new, but I had never seen it before, and got excited :drunk:

that is pretty much all i had to say. seems like it is gonna be interesting.:mug:

I just got back from the store and noticed that pumpkin beers were out in force. Seemed a little early to me.80-90 degrees and pumkin don't do it for me.

for a few weeks, yeah. as usual.