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Also, each element can share the single neutral wire? And in this setup, I can still use a double pole switch to open/close the circuit?

Oh I see... I can still have one cable going to the pot, but I will have the ability to control one or even both of the elements should I find the need to do so.

Also, both my elements are identical.

Hi thx for the reply. Yes, from some diagrams I did read and understand that I could "make" 120v with one hot and one neutral from 240v. But I want to have just one connection to my pot (with a quick connect) and I want to switch it with one double pole 240v switch. Currently, my two 120v...

Hi there, Currently I have a two element kettle. Each element is 120v and completely separate from each other. Since I boil in my basement and the location I boil at is very close to the 240v dryer outlet, I want to eliminate having two 120v power cables going to separate circuits in my...

HAHAHAHA!! yup.. Me and lentils DO NOT get along.. 12 rounds of championship boxing going on in the the old digestive track for me after I eat those.

lol I can see Saaz as well. What are those silver things?

Maybe that should be another one. You know you're a home brewer when: you output the same volume of beer as a small country, yet you have nothing ready to drink!

Oh! lol my keezer is set to just above freezing. So my 5 secondaries are cold. (and flat) I have many empty spare kegs... the only thing worse than no beer... is a lazy home brewer.. hahaha!!!

HAHAHAHA! sigh.... well, I know I am a home brewer because I have a keezer in the basement that has 5 full secondary fermenters just begging to be kegged!

When the pint you just pulled from your keg is crystal clear and you get "empty keg" anxiety because you now know you only have 3 pints left in it...

YES PLEASE! I'd love to own this setup!

I make a greek pizza that gets rave reviews.. I start with a "from scratch" olive oil bread dough recipe. (well actually, it is a modified bread dough recipe that works well as a pizza crust. Essentially, it is a stickier dough that crisps up well on the bottom when cooked in a heavy pan with...

Hmmm.. interesting about lacto bacteria. I didn't even know it was present in a mash. Anyway, I sparged at 168f for 10 mins. According to some info I just read, this temp is above the survival rate of lacto bacteria. My unboiled wort didn't sit around for too long. I am thinking I should be...

OK, so I doubled my recipe, mashed in, pulled the first running off and then sparged with around 8 gallons of water. (17 pounds of grain sure likes to keep a lot of sparge water behind!!!) I filled my kettle to the top and started the boil. I added more 2nd runnings slowly to the pot during...

Oh interesting! So I found this site: http://www.brewunited.com/view_page.php?pageid=1 It states that my mash tun can hold 24 pounds of grain. My Centennial Ale recipe is 8#12oz of grain. So I can easily double this recipe. If I go back to doing batch sparge, (right now I do no-sparge mash...

Oh wait! So hold on a sec here... So I could mash say 15 pounds (or whatever I could stuff into my mash tun) or so of grain using the batch sparge method, basically this would yield enough wort to practically fill my 10 gallon kettle, do the boil, hop additions etc, then I could top off with...

Ok how about this... I double my bittering hops in the all grain, do a DME hop boil of 2.5 gallons for 30 mins. (or however long I have time for while mashing the all grain... could be longer than 30) In the left over (unboiled DME) I add some flavor hops while it is still hot. (kind of like...

Right!! my brew days are right around 4 hours including clean up. I do no-sparge mash now. So basically I can fill the "wait" times with making DME. I suspect it won't add too much time to my day.

Ok.. How about this. I start my all grain day... once the kettle is clear of strike water, (so I am mashing...) I make up 5 gallons (or slightly more) of DME in my kettle. Then, I take about 2 gallons or so, and put it in a large kitchen pot over my induction heater and bring it to a boil...