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Saw a nice video of a lifestyle brewery (highlighting the BREWHA brewing system if memory serves). Sounds like a perfect way to spend your days in retirement!

Let’s take the conversation into those threads - I expect they have been resolved in the meantime, but if they haven’t, we can talk through the specific factors there and perhaps help. It’s difficult to make general statements that lay the root cause to a specific piece of equipment in the...

Just brewed yesterday, so I’ll post a pic in a couple weeks when I crash it, which will show my system works for me in my location. Unfortunately, it won’t help others that are having chilling system issues. Others in this thread have noted countless threads of users facing chilling system...

They are all pretty good, but in some applications (such as others that have had issues reaching even 40), pretty good sometimes doesn’t cut it. It’s good that it works for you in your circumstance and can achieve that on your system (in the winter [emoji6] j/k). Didn’t mean to wind up the SSB...

Sounds like you’ve eliminated the connector, so must be the post. I would suggest disassembly for inspection. You may find a mis-machined surface, a bound o-ring, some foreign material interfering with the sealing surface...

I agree - I assess SSB as excellent marketing with acceptable engineering. If you put any of their products up against a specialized company, in some cases they are roughly the same (Kettles vs. Blichmann) and in other cases they are second-tier (conicals vs. Stout). As an engineer, I compare on...

It must be a worn o-ring, either the outer one that you can see or the inner one that requires disassembly. Also, check the sealing elements in the ball lock connector as well, but I would suspect the post rings first.

You’ve got a few points in your favor with mild ambient a lowered heat transfer and the CF10 having a lower surface to volume area along with higher surface area of the coils. The CF5 can be operated to achieve 35 set points, but requires everything else to be in a positive favor (lower...

The “latter” I was referring to was to efficiency, duty cycle, etc., but the “former” was hitting set temperatures, which certainly brewers do care about! I am familiar with the difficulties of others on this forum, and conclude that while the chiller may be a contributing factor, the root...

There are far too many variables to do cooling product comparisons like suggested above, and this is hinted at by the gentleman from Penguin. Heat loads play are far larger role in hitting steady state temperatures than the operation of the chiller and cold side reservoir. This is addressed by...

Extract and swamp cooler (live in the South) - twang and a half Mini-mash and DME with swamp cooler - big meh burger All grain with Coleman mash tun and cold side temp control - good beer Above with step mashing by infusion - interesting good beer RO with mineral additions per style - great...

I typically set glycol chiller to 10 degrees lower than fermentation temp to avoid large temperature swings - never really understood the 28 set and forget that some do. If you set it to 50, should be fine with water, but looks like in the meantime you’ll get your glycol around the same time...

With a 2V 20 gal k-RIMS, the heaviest lift is dropping the spent grain from the mash tun before using sprayer on hose to rinse the remaining grain out. Otherwise PBW on re-circ in the BK for 20 min before pushing to the MT. Rinse, wipe down and let air dry along with a quick breakdown of the...

LLLL and UUUU errors on temperature controllers can indicate a fault on the temperature line. If you have a multi-meter, you can check the continuity of the wiring to diagnose a broken probe or disconnected wire.

I use the growlerwerks ukeg, the gallon version is about the right size, the 64 oz seemingly evaporates the beer it goes so fast.

I CIP, which has some blind spots due to thermowell etc., so I disassemble the lower portions to blow out funk, but leave upper connections in place and have not disassembled them ever actually... I have suitable head space that nothing touches the them, so never saw a need except for the...

Personal preference TBH. However the two commercial products you reference do different things. PBW is a cleaner while starsan is a sanitizer, the latter which is analogous to the bleach and alcohol you use. The benefit to the starsan is that it is a no-rinse sanitizer, so does so in one step...

Another great one to add to the list, Designing Great Beers. https://www.brewerspublications.com/collections/all-books/products/designing-great-beers-the-ultimate-guide-to-brewing-classic-beer-styles?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoNvZ2Jb-5gIVDYvICh2k0whmEAAYASAAEgLO7fD_BwE

To avoid other flavors, you can source liquid or powdered caffeine, though I’ve not done something like that myself. If you have a distrust of process used to create it (and potential danger), you can also distill it yourself.

This would be better in the Want to Buy section. I have a few of varying lengths- will take measure when I get back home later and let you know. EDIT: I’ve got 3 6 inch shanks and 1 4 inch shank, so longer than what you’re looking for I’m afraid.