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I used the standard small white drilled stopper, I don't know the number. The Brewer's Hardware thermowell fits snugly in there, especially once it has Star San on it. I used a paddle bit on a regular drill to drill the hole and cleaned up the edges with a deburring tool. Get the 16"...

I do almost exactly like @drgonzo2k2, though so far I haven't seen the need to soak overnight. I put the solid cap on the bottom and soak the stopper, spigot, and lid seal at the same time in several scoops of homemade PBW. After a few hours the fermenter is full of pretty much just dirty...

Racked my "Birthday Porter" to secondary. It will sit until the end of February, when in will get bourbon soaked vanilla and oak, bottled 2 weeks later, and the first opened 6 weeks after that for my 40th birthday. It's only my 3rd beer, so here's hoping it's not awful!

Subscribing. I'm new at this but a DB clone is the first thing I started researching after equipment. It's my go-to usually-have-on-hand favorite beer. Not that it's rare or even very expensive but if I could make my own that was close that would be great. I'll be interested to know what...

I use a 16" Brewer's Hardware thermowell and a small bung sized hole drilled in my Speidel lid with a paddle bit like @CGish did. Note in this photo, that's a 12" thermowell. Get the 16" for a 30L Spiedel otherwise the tube will be barely below the surface of the wort in a 5G batch. I had...

My favorite is my Libbey thistle glass. http://amzn.com/B006VCZ6A0 Not sure what's up with the high price, must be in limited stock. I've bought two, under half that price both times.

5 gallons of 1.060 porter in the fermenter with a decanted starter of Wyeast 1728. My 3rd brew, second on my own equipment. All went well other than an immediately clogged funnel filter during transfer. In the end I ditched the filter and will just let everything settle out. It's going to sit a...

This is my favorite beer. 2015 is out in the Grand Rapids area and I'm told it's a fantastic batch. Haven't seen it on the opposite side of the state yet, but checking daily. I'm drinking a Redankulous at the moment.

Brewing Northern Brewer's bourbon barrel porter extract kit on Sunday, my third batch. Made the yeast starter for it last night, my first, with Wyeast 1728. This is going to sit quite a while, will have vanilla added, and will be opened for my 40th birthday at the end of March. I hope it...

I was (and still am) 39 when it was done. Kids 5 and 2. I definitely didn't want to have another child in my 40s. It wasn't covered by Blue Cross, but they did limit the amount charged. It was something like $400 after the Blue Cross reduction.

Who thought my 5th or so post on a beer forum would be several paragraphs about this? I had it done in March. I would describe it as very, very unpleasant. The only part of the actual procedure I'd call painful was when they pull off the tape they use to hold your deal to your stomach while...

Founders Dirty Bastard, my go-to. I just got into brewing. I have ready to go bottles of an APA but can't taste it until Tuesday when I can get together with the buddy I brewed it with. I have a hefeweizen in the fermenter at 1.010 probably ready to bottle but leaving in the morning for a...

My first brew. A full boil extract hefeweizen. About 5 1/3 gallon into my Speidel in the fridge, BrewPi doing its thing. Been in there about 28 hours at 65F. Bubbling like crazy tonight.

My first solo brew on my own equipment tomorrow (my second ever brew). Doing a simple Hefeweizen kit from my LHBS. I wanted something easy that's also ready quickly since I don't have any kind of pipeline in place.

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I was asked by Beek in the Scrubmaster 3000 thread to post about my Malfet-style bottle washer so here we go! I'm brand new here and to brewing in general. I've done a single brew with a friend and am doing my first solo brew on my own equipment tomorrow. But while lurking here...

I don't, I'm brand new here. But I did take some photos during my build and have some thoughts about it. I'll post in the Malfet thread tomorrow.

Definitely. I built a Malfet-style bottle washer modified to the the dimensions of FastRacks (since this photo I've added PVC supports under the frame). The expensive part is the pump. Building the PVC parts to wash carboys and kegs would cost less than $10. Just unscrew the hose barb...

Hello everyone. Brand new brewer here. I've only made one batch with a friend on his equipment (bottling an APA tonight) but I got hooked and in the mean time have gotten all of my own equipment to get going. I'm a computer nerd and had a rasp pi literally sitting in a drawer so I figured...