• Please visit and share your knowledge at our sister communities:
  • If you have not, please join our official Homebrewing Facebook Group!

    Homebrewing Facebook Group

Search results

Homebrew Talk

Help Support Homebrew Talk:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. C

    Blichmann Breweasy vs Brutus 20

    Are these two two kettle systems run on the same premis? Do they both continually recirculate the mash into the boil kettle? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew
  2. C

    Regrets?

    Do you know anyone who has brewed with a well built electric RIMS, and then gone back to propane? Does anyone here wish they wouldn't have put in the money and the effort? Thanks Jon
  3. C

    240/120volt switching RIMS tube

    Next week, I will have a 50amp plug on a 50amp gfci breaker in my garage. I large step closer to electric brewing. For the foreseeable long term, I will brew in a cooler and a keggle. My electrician neighbor (who works for beer) :mug: has said that he can create a rims controller that can be...
  4. C

    Corn Sugar for lower F.G.

    I am polishing my IPA recipe, and I wish to finish lower than the 1.013 than I just bottled. I have heard that if I use dextrose in the recipe, I can lower my F.G., but I am afraid of corn sugar from the days of "kit and kilo" beer kits. All of my first beers tasted like apple cider because of...
  5. C

    LightBulb!!!!!!!

    So...I just bought a Chugger Pump. I currently brew with a propane powered Keggle and a picnic cooler. I have started to recirculate the mash and to back fill my kettle (I am slowly converting to electric). I like all of this very much. On the inside of my kettle I have a Bazooka Tube on a...
  6. C

    Canadian Question...?and what does the timer do?

    Hey everyone, I am hoping to start building my panel over Spring Brewk. :drunk: I have picked one of PJ's that has... 5500 watt HLT 2000 watt RIMS 5500 watt HLT Three PID's and a timer. I would include a diagram, but I don't want to search for it because I have the hard copy here with...
  7. C

    How much Rye does it take to screw up a sparge?

    Hi Guys. Tried this questions in General Brewing, but got no response. I just brewed with a pump (first time) and with Rye (also first time). I got through it but the grain bed in my cooler compact quite tight. Everything took an hour longer than it usually does. My grain bill was %15 Rye...
  8. C

    How much Rye does it take to screw up a sparge?

    Hey everyone...I changed too many things on one brew day to have this all figured out. I brewed with a pump for the first time. No extra heat in my Cooler Mash Tun, but pumped from mash to kettle. First time ever experiencing a compacted grain bed. The grain bill was about 15% Rye. I have...
  9. C

    Evolution to Electric

    Hi Everyone This is a great source of info, that I have been reading for a while. I will begin this week to switch from ghetto brew to electric brew. Have a panel plan, a list of bits and pieces that I need, and no doubt enough help here to get the job done. I will start with a pump. I...
  10. C

    Wrapping my head around this...

    Can a PID be used to control a boil kettle. youknow... Like a great big rheostat? Thanks for your help all. Jonathan
Back
Top