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I will echo what mongoose said. I have several spike uni's and a 1/2hp peguin 38° is is low as I can go and it makes the glycol unit cycle a lot to accomplish that. I am set up in a florida garage so it's not a battle I can win. I will say that from what I have read traditionally the germans...

I have had pretty lackluster experience with hosehead. I would look elsewhere unless You are very comfortable using a raspberry pi. The probes are wildly inaccurate and need constant recalibration. Have also had 2 units require new sd cards

Grainfather is fine it’s terribly slow to boil so if you access to 220 I would look at one of the 220 all in ones. You will need temperature control here you can get away with a swamp cooler if you are fermenting inside. Water varies widely here and in general it’s not great. Publix has...

You can use Pale malt in place of 2-row for the most part. Pale is slightly darker at about 3 srm i believe. Its like the difference in golden promise and maris otter they are bother british pale 2-row malts but have slight flavor differences.

Seems to me the hobby is seeing a reduction on a whole. Our homebrew club meetings were 45-50 people and now are 25-30. There are however a fair amount of new faces. Everything ebbs and flows we have seen competitions that would always receive 600 entries only get 400 the last 2 years. I...

You can stagger them put 2 vessels towards the front of the table and the middle vessel pushed back. Valve positions would be your main concern. I have 2 15 gallon kettles and a 20 set up this way at work and with those I have to deal with handles so they are wider than keggles.

I just ordered my third CF5 and have to give a shoutout to @SpikeBrewing. I was looking at my first order from march to make sure I got everything I needed when I noticed there was a error in my bill. It was something I failed to catch and should have seen when unpacking my order. Out of...

Add you sparge salts to the boil kettle add just your acid to the HLT.

Yes. I would put 10psi on before crashing. You should consider pulling or closing off the blowoff with .006 - .004 points left and putting a spunding valve on at this point. Its one of the main reasons to own a unitank. If you close up with .004 - .006 or so you will wind up with 4-10 psi on...

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I bought these awhile back to rebuild a panel and the project never happened. They have never been used $83 new I’ll take $50 shipped. Item details below.

$25 shipped 7 liquid 6 gas Mix of mfl and barb all in great shape.

$80 shipped 3 - perlick 630ss and a insert growler filler. Faucets are in good shape one faucet has a small rust stain on the inner bonnet (see pic) they haven’t been used in awhile but the seals were all fine the last time they were. May want to change them out. $45 shipped 4 - Sankey...

I have seen a handful of complaints about the grainfather conical not working well for small batches in the grainfather users group on FB. I have a GF I use for small batches but not their conical so I'm just speaking from what I have read.

Above 180° brewery wash (PBW, Oxyclean) soak for 25 minutes followed by a rinse and then sanitizer soak for 25 minutes with kill about anything. You can put all the fittings and orings in a steamer basket on the stove or in an instapot for 15 minutes. If the PRV is plastic like most are dont...

Grainfathers "jacket" is more of a sweater vest. It doesnt cover the full area making it not great at dealing with smaller volumes SS brewtech uni had short coils that werent great for 3g batches. They were reportedly fixing this issue but im not sure it they have so I would contact them...

Efficiency: For eherms you want your mill set to .045 - .050 I find that a stir with about 20 minutes left and then resetting your mash be will also bump numbers a bit if that is what you are looking for. Sounds like you are new to this HERMS system. What are you setting your HLT to? Are you...

I would look at the torpedo kegs from morebeer as well.

I own a 3 vessel eherms setup and I love it. I also have a grainfather I got used that I enjoy, although it is underpowered. If I hadn’t started with 3 vessel I likely would have designed a ebiab setup. Mostly to save space. They both work well.

Probably not whirfloc related. What do you clean your equipment with? Any dish soap? Glassware type and cleanliness also affect head retention. How is your carbonation level?