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I am in the process of building my new electric recirculating BIAB setup(more on that here). I have largely accumulated my gear on the secondary market via folks moving almost entire brewing setups for great prices(read with almost everything I need minus minor parts left I finally exceeded the...

I probably should have added that the picture is not to scale. I have thermometers right now that are probably 3 inches or so.

Forgive the chicken scratch. This is what I’m thinking for ports on the kettle. At 10 o’clock, I have the element coming through. Then the thermometer at eight, with the valve at six. Then the recirculation comes back in at around 2 o’clock, and from there goes up to come back down through the...

Made some more gear progress, again on the secondary market. I now have the parts to build a controller with two 5500w ripple elements(minus box). One is an inkbird PID and the other is an auber dspr300. I also picked up a bunch of other stuff as this was someone looking to clear what was...

I was gonna say hey that sounds like some stuff in the beer world too but @Pennine beat me to it. To be honest I really appreciate regionality and the differences therein. But also never pass up an opportunity to poke fun as this is a debate I have heard a couple of times.

In my gov/mil career I’ve met all kinds of folks. The only ones who got into pizza debates like this are from certain parts of the US. I’ll never forget the first time hearing “pie” in this context , which greatly confused me given there were no desserts at hand. Guess what, it’s all tasty you...

My understanding of D47 also is that if temp gets too high it can throw off flavors, maybe someone with experience in it can chime in. I am in similar boat as you in re availability of honey. Maybe try a glass and add some honey to it to sweeten up and see if you like it better.

Besides the previous input you got, what was the FG of this mead? What yeast did you use? In comparison to your previous meads did this one happen to finish drier? I intermittently make mead, but I have found to me dry mead has a flavor I don’t particularly care for. I wouldn’t call it plastic...

Yeah I really enjoy smoked foods, so figured I’d like Rauchbier. Didn’t hate it, but wasn’t sure I’d want five gallons of it sitting around either. To be fair I rarely am able visit places that stock these types of beers, and I’ve noticed often they are past their best by date. So I suspect...

How have your water tests gone? I’d be curious to see how close the reading at your probe is to the temp inside the kettle, especially at boil. Looks like you’re moving along nicely! I’m also in the process of doing a build and hoping to pickup the majority of the remaining hardware next week.

I’ve got my first single on deck for my next ale: 5 gal 9lb pils 8oz aromatic 8oz wheat 8oz sugar .5oz magnum 60min .5oz Tettnang 30min .5oz Tettnang 15min 1.047og 1.007fg 31ibu Lallemand Abbaye Have played with idea of using honey at flameout instead of sugar, but think I’ll try it as is...

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Black Betty- Ram Jam

You’ve got some great input already, but I’ll ask this: Did you change anything in your process on this or try anything new be it ingredients or otherwise? (Insert pre apology in case this has already been asked as I’m skimming while cooking, wrangling kids, and HBTing)

Black Magic Woman- Santana

Depending on where you’d be willing to meet I’d be interested, I am a little outside of NOVA. I’ll shoot you a PM.

I usually stir at the 30 minute mark, and try to leave little to no liquid behind in my mash tun. That consistently nets me in the high 70’s for efficiency, which I am happy with. For whatever reason if I am a little short on volume I can do a dunk sparge(another bag benefit), but haven’t needed...

I find myself very sensitive to C hops, and generally try to avoid them. Typically I can pick them out if they’re there. However I haven’t experienced anything like what you’ve described(though unfortunately I rarely get out to breweries). Given the current state of the industry I wonder if...

@Broken Crow this is going to start as an AIO BIAB setup, from there we’ll see. I think I’ll run with it for now and see how it goes. I’m picking up a tungsten hole saw so if I need to poke another hole it’s not a big deal. regarding port placement I am thinking the element will come in...

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