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Is this serious? I understand accents, but actually teaching words to the contrary of Webster's Dictionary seems wrong. How do they say 'fin' or 'hen'? Not trying to be rude or anything, just boggles my mind a bit....

Does your freezer really pull that much juice? That's very surprising to me. I gave an older 5ish cf keezer that pulls 3 amps and a 7ish cf chamber that pulls less than 8. What you should really be concerned with is that those controllers are only rated for 10a and the mean it. I've burned them...

I am very interested in these results. Please post back when done!

Basically I think you should have swapped the flavor additions. Add the chocolate at the end of the boil and add the extract at secondary or bottling.

Just FYI, I suggest the Type A fitting, male barbs, stainless washers and a hardwood plate. That's what I used. You can see them all in the original post.

Camlock fittings and high flow hose barbs. I also suggest reinforcing the wall with an additional plate or something because the stainless is pretty thin. I used a thin piece of hardwood board. You can either use camlock type A fittings with male threaded barbs, or type F fittings with female...

I would be very interested in your results. I too bought a half lb of the stuff and haven't brought myself to use then yet. I was thinking either an APA or Amber with caliente and sorachi ace, since I seemed to get some lemon/lime/pine from them.

This stuff is good. You'll like it! Now you've reminded me that I need to make another batch of this soon... The oak definitely a round spiciness to the party and is good. Think I'm going to split the batch and leave it out of half to see exactly what the difference is...

On a pound for pound basis, yes I think all grain is much cheaper than buying extracts. Remember, you're basically paying someone else to extract all the potential points from a grain and condense it for you with DME or LME. That being said, once you factor on the never ending purchases and...

Haha, yeah, we made that same joke when we found out. We'll assume a Boston male.....

This! This has completely solved my stuck sparges. I would think you would want to avoid channeling with rims to ensure that all of the grain gets good hot and even temp across all of the grains.

I have done both methods and both times I start my boil.kettkr heating before I'm finished sparging. I have taken to fly sparging lately because I have picked up quite a few points of efficiency. Either way whether batch or fly, I start my flame on my boil kettle as soon as I have about a...

Just another update - used this box in its latest configuration (only difference being that I added kill switches for the alarm, PID and fan) for a Rye Pale this weekend and it worked perfectly. Mash started out a bit sticky, but I cleared that with a couple of stirs about half way through...

I've made this beer, or very close to this beer twice before now and feel that this last batch will be good enough to post. I feel that I like most Rye Pales, but I'm not a huge fan of in your face rye flavor that overpowers everything else. I also am pretty partial to a pale having that citrus...

I like your style. That might be what I end up doing. I think I'll bottle this one for now since I'm shipping some anyways

Thanks for the reply. I can say that I am very happy how this is turning out. I am at almost exactly 4 weeks from sacc pitch now and it is very good. I do think that I will let this bulk age for another few weeks before bottling. It is slightly tart, not very sour, and has a nice unfiltered...

I think it would take too much fruit to get a flavor that you're after. If you're new to all grai stick with some simple recipes to fail.in the process first. Once you have 5 or so brews under your belt (try a simple IPA, wheat, red stout, etc.... Whatever you're into) then start messing with...

Are you saying that you didn't boil the wort at all!? Well, other than not hop utilization (or very little), you would have gotten no hot or cold break and would have not driven off any DMS that may be present. The real concern though is that you didn't sanitize the wort and now you...

I hope that doesn't happen to me! I took it apart once, to check inside before mounting it in the box and it was squeeky clean! I always recirculate hot cleaner through it after each brew.

Nope, no issues here. I think that once you get used to the mag drive pumps and how they work you learn how they like to work and how to properly prime them. For me, that just means flooding the pump and getting the air out before starting it, usually that's as easy as making sure that the...