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I have three better bottles and don't own ANY of those accessories, and I don't miss them one bit - and I'm sure I'm not alone. I use carboy caps or rubber stoppers, and rack with an autosiphon. Admittedly, the fancy racking valves for them are certainly cool, but just like even fancier...

Not true, according to this site (Table 1): Heat Transfer and Cooking - Kitchen Notes - Cooking For Engineers Water has three times the thermal conductivity and over twice the heat capacity of oil. Of course, that probably doesn't account for convection currents and I'm not sure how that...

smaller boil size = more concentrated boiled wort = lower hop utilization (need to use more hops) = more caramelization (darker wort, among other things) I think it's pretty generally agreed upon that you should always boil as large a portion of your wort as you can.

Yes, full boils make a positive difference. Generally speaking, NO, heating 6+ gallons of wort on a stovetop is not practical, unless you've got a seriously powerful stove. Outdoor propane burners (turkey fryers) are popular for a reason.

Hopefully you'll be able to get some preliminary results out before the AHS march pump sale ends, as it could help those of us who are on the fence :p

So now that you've got it in hand and working, when are you gonna throw some tubing on it and try pumping some water? :) That's the real test, seeing what kind of head and flow rate it can give you under typical brewing conditions.

Well yes, the stir bar will stick to whatever position the magnets are in when you drop it in. The centering of the flask shouldn't matter THAT much, I hardly put any effort into centering mine and it rarely throws the bar. The important thing is whether the magnets are placed such that the...

The fact that it's made for hot fresh water is a plus at least. I wouldn't trust it based on that alone, but it's a start... Hopefully you will be able to open up the pump head and take a look at the construction. Edit: Here's the manufacturer product page...

Are you sure your magnets are placed accurately? If the bar is not properly centered with respect to the axis of rotation, it's going to get thrown much more easily when you speed things up.

5 here = 575

I just remember looking at prices in the range of $10-12 a pound in the not-so-distant past... Though it seems like an entirely different era now...

+1000... come on now :D

Definitely a fun and addicting game, but having more or less played through all of it, it is a bit disappointing in retrospect. There's no real strategy for creature design, you just look at the stats of the appendages/etc, other than that everything is purely cosmetic. Nothing you do in each...

Even easier, you use the CO2 itself for that purpose. Put a bit of CO2 into the 5#'er, then disconnect it and open the valve for a bit, purging CO2 which will rapidly chill the tank. Doesn't take much to get it so cold it frosts over. Then hook it back up and do a proper fill. That's the...

Alright, after a couple minor setbacks, I finally got everything together and did a quick install in my smaller MLT: Just need to stick some kind of a strip on the side next to the tubing and mark off the graduations by the quart or half-gallon. I may fill in the area around the elbow on the...

Aye... I guess the first logical question is "what gave you the idea they were interchangeable in the first place?"

Well you certainly can't just ignore the amount of water absorbed by the grain - that would be essentially saying that ALL of the sugar went into the free wort, and NONE was left behind in the grains along with the water they absorbed. 100% efficiency without even sparging, wouldn't that be...

Mcmaster says viton is good to about 400F. This site: (third google result for 'viton food safe') Materials: Viton, Nitrile, Silicone, Polyurethane, EPDM, Fluorosilicone, Teflon, PTFE filled, PEEK, Nylon, Acetal does NOT say viton is food safe, but more importantly it says it is NOT recommended...

5/16"IDx7/16"OD vinyl tubing (probably the most commonly used size for siphon tubing) fits in standard airlock grommets (or stoppers, carboy caps, etc) quite well.