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Look's like someone's getting a new traditional tank-style hot water heater. Set up a schedule to drain the tank regularly, and to change out the anodes every few years, especially if you have hard or soft water. Or buy a new one every decade or so. On demand is really nifty and never running...

Also White Fang. Very similar but very different books.

http://www.biabcalculator.com/ is what I use. It has proven accurate with my system. It calls for 7.94g of strike water in your situation. BIAB uses different formulas. You might lose some efficiency as the OG increases, but you can sparge and boil off or just add more grain - and that lose...

Would Roku's photo screen saver functionality work? I think Photoview or look for Photo Apps in the Roku App Store. Have not tried it myself.

Pet my Tilt, it is at 1.010 and still going. 3787 is a beast. I will follow-up in a couple of weeks.

There are two ways I use: boil 100g of DME in 1L of water, chill, and add yeast, put it on a stir plate, and wait a couple of days. I use a $15 Amazon erlenmeyer flask. Stir plate is optional - you could just shake it every couple of hours. The other way is that I will pressure-can sweet...

Making starters is a game-changer when it comes to using old yeast. I used some harvested 3787 slurry from an overbuilt starter from April 2019; it has been in the fridge sitting in a sanitized pint mason jar. Built a 1L starter of 1.030 wort, which acted sluggish. I let it go for about four...

Brewed mine this weekend. We will see how it turns out. Can't find Boot Tread in any of my local Aldis any more. Ultimately settled on: 9# Pilsner 1# Biscuit 1# CaraMunich II (55°) 8oz C80 8oz Carapils 0.5oz Magnum (15%) at 60, 1 oz Halltertau @ 10. OG 1.051, 13 SRM, 29 IBU. Revised some...

I am a big fan of Aldi in general, Belgian beers, and their Boot Tread is a nice beer. The cascade is a little too much for me, but I grew my own cascade hops for several years so it will be a bit yet before I come back around to it. I may take a crack at brewing something similar this...

If you have a sink with a hose thread, you can go hose thread - ball lock connection, then fill a keg with PBW and hot water through the sink-ball lock connection. Household water pressure is anywhere from 25 to 60 psi, so you'll end up with a pressurized keg to push the hot cleaning solution...

There were a lot fewer of them made for soda back in the day, so the market is not as saturated with them. I spent a couple of years looking in the Chicago area and eventually picked up two 2.5 or 3g pin locks as part of a package deal. Keep an eye on Craigslist, OfferUp, LetGo, and Facebook...

Every time I think about upgrading my kettle and BIAB bag, I think about how much beer I could make for that amount . . . Once you have whirlpool capability and maybe a sight glass, that's really all you need. I actually took my thermometer fitting out and put an NPT plug in place, because...

http://www.biabcalculator.com/ I use this one all the time. A 10g kettle filed with 20# of grain gives you a 9g mash volume. You can probably sneak by with that. A 15g kettle gives you a good margin on even the biggest 5g batch and the option to do 10g batches if you are careful. I use a...

The only time I have had difficulty is when I had the posts reversed. I ultimately took a paint marker and made grey circles around all my gas posts. The gas post should be the one with the short dip tube. There are plenty of pictures online illustrating the difference between gas and liquid...

A Hydra will bring your wort to within a couple of degrees of ground water temperature in <15 minutes, won't clog, and is easy to clean. It is one of those things I wish I had bought much earlier. It's also built like a tank.

Personally, I would use the same type across the board, in case I ever had a reason to move a breaker from one panel to another. I can't really think of a reason why I would need to do that though. Since you already have the spa panel, go ahead with it. As always, be careful, because...

What did they charge you for the fill besides the re-certification fee?

How/where did you get the female threaded connectors for the posts?

I have a spare out-of-date 20# steel tank. In 2017 American Gasses in Gurnee (Waukegan), charged me $12.50 re-certification fee in 2017 and $20 for the swap. Let me know if you are interested.

I've done half a dozen using my Fermonsters, without issue. I use spigoted ones, with mylar balloons for CO2 capture and to prevent suck-back when cold-crashing, and kegging into a filled-and-purged keg. The lid o-rings are a pain to get right - best to watch the YouTube video on how to...