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Post #255 on this thread has almost the exact same parts I used. The difference...someone gave me a bunch of spare components he had laying around. The terminal strips come with the screws in them already and I used 16 gauge wire for all of the internals of the box with the exception of the...

Same on the Harbor Freight bits. I used them to drill all of my keggles and for some other stuff...still going strong.

Cool man! You'll be here right at about the same time I leave on another deployment. Supposed to be 7th Fleet this time so life will be quite a bit better and thanks for the compliments! You'll have to get involved with the local brewclub here. You'll have time while at 30...trust me.

After some more reading on here, I decided to leave my Tripel in primary for a little while longer. I'm right at three weeks now and am going to transfer to secondary either tonight or tomorrow. I'll probably let it sit there for another week or two before I move it over to the keg to...

I used some aluminum flashing around the interior of my wood stand. I didn't screw it down but just bent it over the edge to reflect the heat. I haven't had any issues with charring and I've brewed three batches on the stand so far. From the looks of it though, the perimeter of my stand is a...

You don't have to rebuild the recipe. You just save it as Pale Ale Ver2 and fill in the gravity fields. Unless you have your system dialed in to perfection, there will be slight differences in the way you brew the second batch. For instance, your 30 minute hop addition got added at 20...

Did you drill out the propane orifice or did you buy them for low pressure? I drilled mine out and it's working for me but I'm thinking I can still work it to get a more efficient flame. I may just suck it up and buy the low pressure orifice, they're less than $10 a piece I think.

I just took the labels off a bunch of different bottles. Any of the Dogfish Head labels were a little more difficult as they were paper and the glue was a little thick (Punkin Ale). The easiest by far were my St. Bernardus Belgian bottles and the Flying Dog Labels. Soaked overnight and the...

I love the comment that anything that's not a BMC is 'stout'. As in,"Your beers are a little too stout for me." One of my other favorites is... me: "Want a homebrew?" them: "Does your beer have that 'homebrew' taste?" me: "I don't know, what's a 'homebrew' taste? them: "I don't know...

I think I'm in the clear now. I just need to change the airlock out....again. I'm thinking of leaving it in primary for about 9 days and then transferring to secondary for about two weeks. I'm going to bottle a case and keg the rest. I'm hoping it will be ready in time for an interKlub...

So, after cleanup yesterday, I get home from work and there's krausen and yeast in the airlock again!! Fortunately, it never made it's way out to cause a mess but I'm wondering if I should change out the airlock again. It's bubbling away as is and the krausen has settled down some.

Oops...I thought I had put it in the recipe up there. I went with Wyeast WLP530 Abbey Ale. Even this morning when I cleaned up the mess the fermentation was still churning and chugging away....and it smells awesome.

The brew day went pretty well other than me sparging a bit too much. Last night I got home to the smell of beer filling my garage. I opened the ferm chamber and had a straight up beer explosion. It's a mess but it's my first one so I was actually pretty stoked about it. I love yeast.

This is one I'm making tomorrow so the numbers given are what BeerSmith spit out according to all of the parameters I set. Grain: 13.5 lbs Pilsner 2-row Belgium (2.0 SRM) 80.6 % 1.5 lbs Wheat, Torrified I (1.7 SRM) 9.0 % 12.0 oz Aromatic Malt (26.0 SRM) 4.5 % 1 lbs Corn Sugar (6.0)...

I drilled and tapped the burners to mount the pilot lights. I would have mounted them towards the interior of the burner but the copper leads to the thermocouples I bought were just a little too short. After the first brew, the placement of these was just fine. Here they are: and...

Sorry about not getting back sooner about the pilot lights. I've had another project going on in my garage and the brewstand has been pushed into the corner...I know, "no one puts baby in a corner.". However, I only had one power outlet in my garage and had nowhere to plug in my kegerator...

These guys are great! I just installed my soldered keg kits and one had a pretty bad leak. After I inspected it, I realized that the solder joint wasn't complete and was leaking pretty bad through it. I let BargainFittings know through their website and got a new bulkhead fitting in two...

This is the same for me. I had an issue with one of my stainless pumps heads just being seized up. I wrote Chugger on Sunday evening (Feb. 26) and received a new pump with a stainless head today. I actually only wrote that I may just need a new pump head and they responded with "Give me your...

The charring is something I was thinking about throughout the whole process. Based on others who have done single-tier wood stands, I spaced things out accordingly. I also used aluminum flashing on the inside perimeter to reflect some of the heat. Although, during this brew I was feeling for...

First batch brewed today on the new stand! My brew days are going to be so much easier. After some small pump priming issues, things went really smooth. I also sparged more than I wanted to so I boiled a little longer to get down to the volume I needed. I ended up with a gravity of 1.050...