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NivikD If you don't think health and safety is an issue worth discussing in brewing, I certainly don't want any of your beer. DrWill, I don't all ways agree with John Palmer, He has co written a couple of books and is knowledgeable about brewing, but he is not the absolute authority. I have...

DrWill, I am not trying to be argumentative, do some research on the effects of aluminum absorbed in the body. People use products for example that are bad for you such as baking powder with aluminum added, or underarm deodorant containing aluminum oxide. Continual cooking of any kind in...

I don't know what is available in Lithuania, Stainless is best for brewing, don't use aluminum, copper is very good for a boil kettle, don't use copper in a fermenter. The metal cooking pots with the ceramic coating are used by many people and inexpensive. If you have a restaurant supply store...

Use a brew calculator, yes there is quite a lot of absorption in all grain and 1 hour boil off will be close to a gallon , depending on the diameter of your boil kettle.

A rolling boil does a couple of things. It concentrates the wort for a higher OG, most importantly it boils of unwanted esters and other compounds that can cause off flavors. A rolling boil with the lid off the preferred method. Get a gas burner and LP tank.

1st and foremost, if you have any fossil fuel burning equipment in your home, including central heat, stoves, water heaters, you should have more than one CO detector. Get the ones that plug in an outlet, CO is heavier than air. Specially put them in your bedroom, so you don't wake up dead.

I suggest check connections, I am not real familiar with that controller, check the program. factory default on most is 30 degrees temp differential, should be set to 2, most devices should be p=2, at least something to check. :-)

If you look at the brewer TV episodes, There is a guy there with a single tier gas system in the basement with a commercial range hood, he bought for salvage for $100.00. No worries there. As said earlier, common sense first, and ask a professional, I am a retired HVAC/R engineer and see no...

Keep the Herms coil in the lower third of the HLT, you can also add water if needed and heat it back to temp.

Raise your HLT to strike temp and pump the needed volume into the MLT, mash in and raise the HLT with your HERMS coil to 169 F or so. You need the temp differential for the HERMS to work. Recirculate the water in the HLT to avoid temp barriers or thermo shields. Then you have sparge water ready...

As an EMT I fully understand your concern. I am sure you have been in a commercial kitchen with a gas range and 10 high btu burners running at once. The thing that keeps them safe is the exhaust fan and the non flammable surface behind the range. I don't have a need to run a burner indoors, my...

Even if you start measuring at 2 gallons for example, you will need more water than that to mash in, so it's not really and issue. If you have ten gallons of water in your HLT to start with, pay attention to how mush your removing from the HLT to the mash tun. A brew calculator will estimate how...

My thought on that is, your boiling the kettle for at least an hour, so there won't be any bacteria or mold alive in the threads. Just rinse and sanitize it right after use. Threads can be an issue in a fermenter, I think your fine with the boiler.

A good exhaust fan, over the burner, and a fresh air intake, window or door open a bit. Add a CO detector and you should be safe. Keep the burner a couple of feet away from flammable objects.

set p=2 this is the temperature differential setting