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Oh yeah, look at those. Perfect! Thanks

Thanks for the feedback. I don't imagine I would have more than a dozen different interfaces going on across everything. (I say that now...) On a different note, I'm curious what the preferred connector is for sensors and other low current things like ball valves? I have been thinking about...

Hello! I just installed BruControl and wanted to say that I'm pretty impressed with the system so far. I have just been doing basic things, and writing some scripts to get my feet wet. I have a build that I'm working on a new Low O2 setup with 2 vessels and using a counterflow as a heat...

I have always just opened the top and put in a sample thief to get one. I guess you could do it from the bottom but you are going to get a lot of yeast and stuff with it.

I think the key to this is that you were cleaning it with a sponge. Any time you rub the inside of the thing you are going to introduce micro scratches in the surface. As you get more and more of those, it will be harder to clean it until you just can't. I have had mine since the original...

You are not the first person to mention that happening (if you looked back in the archives of this thread far enough, you would find it). I think the pervious person had screwed the collection ball onto the union fitting too far and the fitting was pushing on the neck with some force, and...

Yeah, mine snapped off too after it was all installed. I had the thing filled with wort and the head just popped off one of the top bolts.

One thing to be wary of is the airlock bubbling as a sign of fermentation. When I used mine for the first time I thought things weren't fermenting but it turned out that I just didn't have a good seal between the screw on lid and the body of the fermentor. Consequently, the CO2 would go out...

If it is helpful, there is a calculator on the Blichmann site that lets you calculate the heating time for a given amount of water and an electric heater size. I used it for mine and it was pretty close.

I'm probably 20 batches into my boilcoil and I wouldn't trade it for anything (brewing wise). It has been great, the only thing that is a tiny bit annoying is cleaning the scale off of it that can form sometimes. Since it is a coil, it just takes a lot of time working around the loops to get...

Looks nice. If you brew something small up this weekend you could have it ready for Christmas. I'm doing an Ordinary Bitter tomorrow for christmas, ferments out in a week and that would even give time for bottle conditioning if needed (though I see you have kegs, so that wouldn't be an...

I haven't posted back here in a long while, but I have been reading the email updates so I thought I would chime in. I used my FF for about 10 batches and then stopped using it and went back to carboys. I had several issues with the yeast not fully cleaning up after themselves (diacetyl...

Hi All, I'm looking to make a clone of the Maizie's ESB at Dog Street pub in Williamsburg, VA. I have a relative that is moving away from there and really likes that beer so I was thinking I would try to make something close to it. Looking around online, I found very little about it...

If the water that was running through the wort chiller is chlorinated city water, then you are likely going to get a bunch of band-aid/plastic off flavors from the yeast interacting with the chlorine/chloramine. If you are on a well, and not chlorinated, then you might consider feeding it...

For those following the "use the ball" or "use the hose adapter" conversation that was going on earlier... I ran out my batch of pilsner tonight using the hose adapter attached and found the following behaviour. When I first started running it I got some trub/yeast/gunk, maybe a pint of it...

Yeah, I just looked at mine and there is still 1 thread showing (so about 3/16" less screwed in than yours). It is good to know that can happen, since they don't give a lot of guidance on how tight things should be when they are screwed together. For sure, I could twist mine on more if I tried...

If you add a gas post to the FFand do a pressure test, please post the results. I have been considering doing this so that I can put some CO2 pressure on the beer when it is done and I want to run the temperature down in the fermentor for lagering before kegging. Right now, I just keg it...

I use to do the same thing (before getting a fastferment) and would get 1-2 inches of junk in my carboys. For reference, now I chill with my immersion chiller, then when it is as cool as the water is going to get it (90F or so) I take out the chiller and give it a good spin with a big spoon...

Do you whirlpool and let it settle before draining into the fermentor? I do, and then let it sit for 5-10 hr before taking the ball off with the trub/hops that got through, but it usually doesn't even fill up the ball all the way. Post ferment, the residual trub and yeast fill the ball about...

The method you suggest is what I tried the first time out, but I didn't have enough trub and stuff in there to keep the yeast above the ball. I think that what you say might be true if there was enough junk in the wort at pitching time to fill the ball up though.