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lol - I do the same thing. My wife hates beer, but is a trooper and always tries my latest batch. And I always get the same reaction: at first an "oh, that's an interesting flavor," expression (I think because she wants to like it) followed quickly by a wrinkled nose as the underlying "beer"...

This! People love to lump you in one category or another, and everyone falls for it, feeling like they have to align with dogs or cats. Both are great for different reasons. If I want a pet to go for a walk or wrestle with (without shredding my skin) I'll play with the dog. If I want an...

These are fantastic, guys! I got a bad case of food poisoning, and haven't been able to follow up with individual comments yet, but there have been quite a few that either made me laugh or groan (depending on whether I've fallen into that particular trap!) It's going to be quite a poster -...

I recently finished a room that's (mostly) dedicated to brewing, and I thought I'd spruce it up with some quick-reference posters. One thing I thought would be handy/fun would be a list of gotcha's that can be relatively easily avoided if you practice good brewing techniques. There have been...

Chose this as my first 10 gallon AG batch! 3133+10= 3143

Thanks for the great explanation! I don't know about the others, but I was able to follow along, and the explanation with the head sails makes sense. ;) Beautiful ship, btw - makes me wish I was sailing!

I admit a bit of confusion about the described situation as well - but I'm not familiar with square-rigged sails, or how they work (as opposed to Bermuda rigs.) But (if you're talking about Bermuda rigs) I think you have it backwards with respect to which sheets you want held fast. The...

Ok, I guess you might out-rank me, with my 3 years' small recreational sailboat experience. ;) (Not that we disagreed, but it certainly sounds like you know what you're talking about - I'll defer future nautical term corrections to you. ;) )

As I was taught, if you want to get really technical about it, it's not called a "rope" either, but a "line." The term "rope" on ships (or at least on sailboats) generally refer to ropes that are 1" or thicker, generally used for securing ships to harbors. "Lines" are ropes that are smaller...

I like to sample my beer at every stage - before it goes into the primary, when I rack to the secondary, when I keg, etc. When I first started, I was told that the yeast wouldn't be a problem. And the first few batches, it wasn't. Then I sampled some at just the wrong time, and swallowed a...

Maybe I used the wrong terminology. I chilled the wort and put it directly on top of the raspberries in the primary. It has since fermented for 10 days, and I'm wondering if/when I should rack to a secondary. As a side-note: is it not called racking when you transfer from the BK to the...

I made a 10 gallon batch of Centennial Blonde a couple weeks ago, and on a whim, racked one of the carboys (5 gallons) onto 2 lbs raspberries. It wasn't until later that I realized that I probably should have saved the fruit until the secondary, but too late now. I did look around, and see...

It's just the base of the element that's rusting, so (it's my understanding that) some people coat the base (inside the lock nut) with either POR-15, or with a food-grade silicone, preventing the base from being exposed to water. That said, if it isn't a common problem, and can (reliably) be...

Yet another hurdle on my path to an electric brewery! I hadn't thought/read about rust on the heating elements, so after running my tests, I let the water sit in my keggles for future tests. I went down the next night, and was surprised to see the heating elements in my HLT and BK were...

This obviously would be the cheaper option, and the easiest to implement. Which is good, since I'm starting to feel like this project will never end, and I'll never get to actually brew again. That said, I'll probably try it to see how well it works. If it works well, I'll stick with it...

I've been working to install an electric system in my brewery, and finally got to the testing stage yesterday afternoon! While calibrating my RTD thermometers, I noticed a drastic temperature difference between the temperature shown on the PID and dial thermometer on my HLT. At first, I...

I'm finishing up my AG brew rig, which is an indoor (electric) gravity fed keggle system that uses a pump with a RIMS system in the MT, and another pump through a chill plate after the BK. That said, I have a lot of equipment and hoses that I'm unfamiliar with cleaning and sanitizing, and I'm...

Another follow-up question: If I were to take your advice and switch low-voltage DC to relays, I'd need different mechanical relays, which could be switched on/off with DC, rather than 120V AC. If so, would this relay work...

So you're saying to use the same hardware (switches, etc) but to route low DC voltage across them, triggering relays to power the devices? 1) Am I correct in assuming that if a switch is capable of handling 120V AC that it can also be used for low voltage DC? (It's just completing a...

Thanks again for everyone's help! After several modifications, I'm a little closer to having a more solid plan for how everything should work. I've attached the updated mock-up below, as well as a wiring diagram I made in TinyCAD. I can see the benefits to using lighted switches, but I'm...