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Thanks @Broken Crow I had been looking at this three gallon one, but the price was too high. But today I got lucky at my homebrew shop. I was there to pick up some grain kits. Today in the shop guess what, there was a used version for $99 cdn. Holds pressure, all checked out by my...

Stan, I think you'll enjoy three gallon. If you choose. It's fun to split a batch in half and make two at the same time. You can alter an ingredient in one batch and then find out what you prefer in the end. In kitchen food cooking we can taste a soup as we go, and with real time...

@brewmanStan have a look at those All Rounders and please share your thoughts. I had an aversion to plastic, but I think this modern plastic seems to be a different thing.

Yeah, it's interesting. The progression does seem to be folk moving to three gallon brewing. I see the grain kit delivery sites now offer three gallon as well as five gallon delivery kits. I think it's because as home brewers we are no longer college kids hanging out on a Sunday and...

Yeah it wouldn't block the hose. That's the advantage of using a hose and a bucket. I like to use the fermenter gas to purge a server keg, but that's not done until late in the fermentation, so foam should not be an issue by then. I would much prefer to use a smaller keg. I think this...

Is ample head space really a requirement for a fermenter vessel? I have always assumed it is. we need lots of room for krausen and space for co2 above the krausen. The reason I'm challenging this assumption is I have moved down to small batches in my serving kegs. I have moved away from my...

I believe I'm going to build this. I have been annoyed at that lower tap, sitting there and doing nothing. Now it will have a purpose. I"m planning to buy the following hardware. I'm making an error, @Bobbi_M please let me know. Also I'd rather order them from your store if you have...

I find Brulosophy helpful. I like their test when they wanted to find out if tasters could tell the difference between dry hopping and being repeatedly struck on the back of the head with a brick. Twenty tasters were used, meaning that at least eleven positive results would be needed for...

Why, @Bobby_M , bless your white cotton socks.

It's a good thread because @Bobby_M and @doug293cz are here, iwth their large brains. I'm spending time here because I injured my leg and am confined to the couch with a laptop and my imagination.

Very interesting. Which leads me to the question of solutions to the problem. If I see it as a problem, for me, as worth fixing at all. I can't really do @Bobby_M method (which is prefered) of a second recirc pipe going into a metal second entrance into the vessel. I have a Brewzilla. I...

I have a question, or a curiosity, about the "dead space" in between the walls of a ebiab basket. It is accepted that this dead space leads to a loss of efficency. And while that is accepted I remember @doug283cz reporting that when tested, the loss in efficiency was actually less than...

@Yooper I think trading is the answer to your issue. For example, I have now dropped from five gallon to three gallon batches. And in ebiab. This means my Scylla is now protruding a bit above the top of the wort. It still works great, but I look at the Jaded ones that are lower. I would...

I am happy with my set up. 36 foot sailboat. a 2.5 ballon steel keg sits in the fridge. Takes up about a third of the fridge space, which is fine, as that space used to be filled wiht beer cans. carbonated by a soda stream canister with a kegland 360 regulator. on the beverage outlet, I...

You will like it. The speed of it is not just due to stainless vs copper. It’s that it is three coils connected in series. In normal IC, after a few feet, the cold tap water gets hot and is no longer effective. You could make the coil a mile long and it would not help much But in a...

I have been now using my Jaded IC. Simple tap water. It's excellent. Super fast. Easy to clean.

I see. Perhaps the best way to achieve temperature control then, is to conduct an overnight vorlauf after all Forgive me if I mention something everybody knows, but I recently bought a Heat Diffuser Plate for the Brewzilla. I think this is relevant. Before, the recirc pump would pull...

With my system, the only advantage I can see with recirculating, is that the flow may help intermingle the wort in the stagnant space between the basket wall, and the wort in the main body. But I’m guessing that the mere thermal currents, spread out over eight hours, should do some...

I think I agree. In my particular circumstances of course. The Bluetooth thermometer controls the heat source, so that the center of the mash maintains the desired temp. When I use this thermometer I turn off the machines internal temp sensor. The Brewzilla literature even says that...

I’m starting to wonder if recirc is even necessary. In my circumstances. In an overnight, full volume, small batch mash in my Brewzilla, I have been running the recirc pump, on low, with the hose coiled and resting on the mash, under water. I understand that advantage of recirc is to get...