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Thx. Yea, she hates beer. lol She loves making dog treats with the spent grain tho!

My "beer guy" has a bulk grain sale tomorrow. Bags of 2row for 30 bux.... yup Trouble is its GF birthday, and the trip will kill a good 3 hours lol. Hope the presents and cake hit a home run! lol

Installed a water pressure gauge on the water input of the brewstand to help fine tune the boil kettle condenser and installed a new Chugger Mini Max pump. Going to use it on the boil kettle exclusively. Hoping the higher power motor will increase the flow somewhat through the plate chiller, O2...

Taster of The Inky Squid black IPA. Nice n tasty, and Black. lol

You were right! Forgive a rather lengthy summation of my findings from this test on this particular Boil Condenser Unit, but hope it helps corroborate findings. Test Environment: Garage, 60 deg ambient, 48 deg groundwater temp, 18 gal. BK, 5500w element, Auberins EZ Boil controller, chugger...

Thanks BrunDog. Gives me a starting point. I'll get out the EZ Boil controller manual and see how to change the duty cycle. May hold off the brew session till next week. Instead, I'll try and change duty cycle, and boil some water for an hour. See what kind of boil off i end up with and it...

Added 2 oz Citra and 2 oz Sweet Orange Peel to my Hopwork Orange APA for a week dry hop.

Hope to actually test it tomorrow on a brew. Used to run around 78% power with ezboil controller. Anyone have a suggestion for power level with the lid on using this and / or boil off rate? Its the 9+GPH mister...

Cleaning / sanitizing 2 kegs, kegging 10gal of a black IPA, then cleaning out the conical and ordering some more parts and a new chugger pump.

Just got done running the water supply line and connector for the condenser assembly. Got the mister nozzle, TC connector and waterline QD ready. Just need the TC tee which didnt arrive in time for tomorrows brewday. Next time...

Anyone notice performance gains with the TC fitting on the lid as opposed to the side of the kettle? Steam obviously rises is my thought, but id rather not have to mess with a lid with this contraption on it to stir, add hopps, take a nosey look at whats going on etc... Also, the side output...

Soldered in 2" TC fittings, 1/2" couplers into a new kettle. Etched vol. markings.. Now watchin OHL hockey... Threw a pint of Fizzy Yellow Beer. lol Cheers all!

Took delivery of some carbide hole saws. Gotta get busy on the weekend soldering in 2" TC ports and 1/2" couplers in the new kettles, and etching vol. markings in the pots. Wanna brew with these guys the weekend after this one. Pipelines gotta stay healthy. lol

Brewed my first attempt at a black IPA, kegged 10 gals of another Pale Ale for cold crashing. Cleaned a couple kegs and a 14g conical. Perhaps i can sample some beers while switching between football and hockey this afternoon. [emoji458][emoji322][emoji481]

Finally doing a black ipa. Didnt have cara II, had to do some quick calcs and sub'd in roast barley and a lil black malt. Got a bud from work showin up to see a brew day. Hes been getting my old gear to start into this rediculous obsession we call a hobby. lol.

Soak em in a more concentrated pbw solution overnight. Scrub scrub. lol

One of my employees at the shop is quite amazed that I made the beers hes been sampling, and even more amazed at how little it costs. Tryin to go thru older equipment I have to see if I can hobble together a fairly complete setup for him to start doing extract batches at least. If he wants to...

Want to do a Black IPA... if the Special Roast arrives. If not I'll tinker with new brew kettle and clean stuff, and "sample" some previous brews. lol

So those nozzels do spray pretty much downward? Moreso than horizontal?

Made the stencils for level indicator markings on the inside of the new kettles, and did a test logo etching on the inside if my brew kettle lid. Worked great. Goodbye sight glass!