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I put my burner on a water heater stand, about 18" off the floor. I use a kettle with a valve on the bottom and the valve is just about the same height as the top of the FF when I transfer. I sometimes have to lift the kettle to speed the process but not until most of the wort is transferred so...

True confessions time: I tried it (don't judge!) but it was relatively ineffective. Also the vibrations tend to release dissolved CO2 so not a good idea. Time and gravity are the only things that work reliably. I also change the collection ball when fermentation is about 75% done. When the valve...

I put a large freeze pack on top of the fermenter, draped an old sleeping bag over the whole thing, then zipped it up. I changed the freeze pack every morning before work and every evening when I returned. Temperature stayed pretty steady at 64 - 66 degrees.

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The valve is US Plastics Part No.60952, about $5. I also added a hose barb stem, Part No. 60919, about $1, to make it easier to dispense.

I did an IPA recently with almost 2 ounces of pellet hops for dry hopping. Before dry hopping I removed the collection ball and cleaned it out, then sanitized and reinstalled it. Then I just dumped the hops into the top of the fermenter - no bag necessary. A week later the hops had collected in...

My brother-in-law is a welder so I asked him to weld one end shut. I think you could also seal it with some silicone rubber sealant and crimp it in a vise. To make the seal in the fermenter lid I bought some silicone rubber grommets on eBay that were the right size for the tubing.

US Plastics part number is 63110. The SS probe is a homemade one. I use an inexpensive temperature controller (you can find them on eBay, Amazon, etc., for about $20) that has a sensor with 6 feet of wire. I bought some right-sized hypodermic tubing (eBay), sealed one end and put the sensor...

After my first batch I was impressed by the clarity of my beer and the ease of use. I've experienced some of the minor problems that others have posted here but overall it's been a good experience. I decided to make some modifications to suit my personal preferences. In my previous post I...

+1 on the terrible lid gasket. Anyone have a work-around?

After a lot of back and forth emails with the manufacturer it seems that the stand design was changed to be more compact so it would fit in a fermentation chamber. So what you see in the pictures on the various vendor sites (the ball several inches off the floor) isn't what you get. In the...

Hmmm . . . looks like a bar stool with the seat cut off . . . I wonder if my wife would notice one missing? Seriously, thanks for all the help!

I guess it wasn't obvious to me that there were 2 sizes of stand. There is no way that this is a simple case of an o-ring or something. I had to prop it up on a couple of 2x4s to get the ball off. I'll contact the seller and see if they will swap it out for the taller one.

I paid the extra for the accessory stand but I'm very disappointed. The stand is too short - the entire weight of the tank is resting on the ball. And of course there is no space to remove the ball! Anyone else have this problem?

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Hello all, I've been brewing for a little over a year now with mixed results. Mostly do extract with specialty grains. I would like to go all-grain but before I make the investment in time and money I want to be sure of what I'm doing. I have done perhaps a dozen batches and three of them...