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I have this Monster mill and I had a hard time getting 75% mash efficiency without narrowing the gap to around .37 or .35 and running it through twice. Currently I use the orange round cooler and bazooka tube filter, and have to use rice hulls in bigger beers. I brewed my first 10 gallon...

Hello, Recently I had fun making the Raspberry Pints that many have also done on this site. I also recently built a BCS control panel and electric setup in my brew shed. Currently I use Beersmith on a computer in the house, but need to leave it in the house when I brew for the wife to...

Okay, so maybe not the easiest or cheapest option. There are always cheaper options eh. Kitchen stove small boil extract brews are cheaper right? No one brews to save money that I know. I brag to my wife when I make a great beer for cheap, but we both know hobbies cost money and building...

This looks pretty simple to me. Would be fun to make as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8zAzk4Oz4

You can heat up your water with a simple plugged in heating element, but you will have no way to control it. This might work okay for heating up strike and sparge water, but you wont have a way to control your boil. This setup would be like using your propane burner on full blast without being...

First I would hook everything up and leave everything in the shut off position. Then I would turn on the regulator and listen for leaks. Then I would go down the line towards the keg and listen for leaks at every step. This isn't necessary, but I've found that the most common time to have a...

I may have figured it out. On the lower end of the GFI is has the hard wired neutral and it also has an additional port with a white dot and on the side it says "load." I bet that when pulling 120v off this GFI, the neutral must pull from this. I will rewire this after work and hope for...

Hello, I am building a new panel with a new 60 GFI sub panel. Here is the GFI I purchased. My wiring is close enough to this for diagnostics. I wired up the panel and turned on the home depot GFI. Then I turned on my key and POP. GFI blows. Power runs into brewery panel to a main...

Hello, I am in the process of building a 50 amp BCS control panel in my brew shed. I've noticed in several builds, that a 50 amp spa panel is used to power their control panels with two 5500 W elements. I spoke with an electrician at my work and asked him about my power needs. I informed...

I am in the process of building a BCS control panel and I haven't figured out why many put a removable power cord on their panels. I plan to mount my panel on the wall and hard wire it to a 60 amp spa panel, but I see that a cord is needed if a panel shares an outlet with another appliance such...

I am in the process of building a BCS panel right now. How did/is your project coming along? - Craig

Good points. I recently added a new site glass a couple batches ago. I leveled out the kettle and carefully added one gallon at a time and then marked site glass. The final volume and pre-boil volume were both measured in the same kettle and the kettle was leveled out before taking the...

Hello, I am shooting for better mash efficiency in this page. Although on the last batch I got good mash efficiency but my end of boil efficiency was poor and I am talking about it here. I am using this refractometer and the small test sample should cool within a couple seconds to get a...

Thank you for the great response. I use this Ade Advanced Optics Beer Wort and Wine Refractometer I didn't have any boil over or other unusual loss. I took the pre-boil gravity readings at several points in the process. I will detail the steps to help give a view of what I did. 1...

Thank you for your help. I read somewhere that the chlorine in water will dissipate if you let the water sit for 24 hours. Is this true? I fill my HLT with water 24 hours before brewing for this purpose. I think I may have figured out the biggest problem with efficiency. I believe it...

Thank you very much for the reply and advice. I brewed the recipe that night and didn't see your posting until the next day. I will see how the beer turns out and then make adjustments. I would like to try and make the beer more traditional next time. Because the rye is a smaller grain...

Hello, I am having a hard time finding where I am losing efficiency between my pre-boil gravity and original gravity. In Short Yesterday I brewed an IIPA with a pre-boil gravity of 1.054 at 8.1 gallons. After a 90 minute boil I had 6 gallons at 1.064. Beersmith says I should have 1.072...

Hello, I am trying my hand in creating and brewing a Roggenbier, even though I have never tasted one. I really like rye whisky and rye in my beers, like in Denny Conn's Rye IPA, so I thought I would go all out and make a rye beer. This is how I stumbled across the Roggenbier. I Have...

This seems like a wonderful option. I am going to pick one of these up and two of the glass carboy filters. I think I should be able to use the glass carboy filters in the kegs as well. Which size we be best? augiedoggy, you mentioned that you got a bigger one? I am looking at the 6"x14"...

We have great water in the Portland area and we have more breweries than any other city in the world. From what I've read, many of these breweries don't mess with the water chemistry. Maybe this was bad information? I've never looked any further into our water. Here is what I found on...