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I caution you on the amount of cold steeped coffee you add. I did half cup ground coffee to 1 cup water, yielded approx. half cup of extract. Added it to 5 gallons in keg, over powering coffee flavor. If I were to do it again I would cut it down to half the extract.

Sooooooooo. I did some tasting and honestly I thought it would be different, and maybe it's my total lack of experience. The brett gave me little to no additional anything (I have some original wort bottled for comparison). The lambic had a slightly sour nose, but no sour flavor, and the...

You can absolutely do this. I have done it once or twice and had no issue.

Hmmm. What if you had a fifth line that was a low pressure CO2. Your system pushes a standard pint, then switches to a 1 to 2 psi line that purges the remaining beer?

Any recommendations on 120v fans?

Thanks! It certainly created some design challenges for switch placement, but overall I like the look too.

Oh, you don't really want to see that mess. Ok, ok, here are some pics. Electrical cable management is not my forte. In this case, it basically doesn't exist. I've provided my wiring diagram so you can actually see how this functions.

Hey Guys, I posted a few wiring diagrams along the way and you were awesome about answering all of my questions. Pop over to the full thread in the DIY section This is the result of all that planning:

First I need to say thank to everyone who gave feedback when I asked for it. I've been thinking about this build for months and finally took the plunge a few weeks ago. This is the completed (maybe) build. I went with the bigger form factor PID the 2352 from auberins because I enjoy large...

Awesome advice. Thanks for the input. I still haven't scraped out the time to do samples. I will update once I have! Thanks again!

Hmm. Attached are pics! I'll sample each today and update.

I brewed a 10 gallon batch of a somewhat generic wheat for souring/experimenting. I'm not sure what I was planning to do back in July, but here we are in April and I haven't touched it since I pitched the bugs. When I say haven't touched, I mean I haven't taken any samples or moved them in any...

That's big enough, but hit break might be tricky. A second pot also isn't necessary, but can be helpful depending on how you sparge.

At any temp over ~169° you can actually denature the enzymes that do your starch to sugar conversion. If you do some reading about "mashing out" it explains the chemistry. My guess would be your mash temp dropped below that down to the low 160s during the mash. Did you take a final temp before...

I've keg conditioned a few beers in my kegs, and my experience has been that 5 oz puts the carbonation level on par with bottle conditioning. I've left my kegs to sit fir upwards of 6 weeks conditioning before I put them in the freezer. Other than more sediment on the first pull, no side affects.

Ok, I can live with that. Thanks again!

ok cool, so wire the light in series and it should perform as I expect it to. Thanks for all the quick feedback!

I apologize for my total lack of knowledge on this. If I want to wire an indicator light that is only on when the heating element is on, what is the best way to do this? Thanks, and I apologize again for my lack of understanding on the SSR.

Protto, based on what you're saying the voltage being provided is at a low current? If the indicator light is on (which it is all the time right now, just gets brighter when the ssr is active) doesn't that imply that the element would also be active? I'm confused on the function of the ssr if...

The element hasn't been wired in yet. I wanted to prove that the system is working using a light first before I have my element dry heating by accident. Eventually it will be wired in parallel to the heating element so it doesn't have to deal with the amperage draw the element is going to cause.