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You make some good points Mongoose33. My RIMS is 5,500 watt. Usually I run it at 50% cycle unless I'm heating strike water or parge water. I'm also recirculating about 1 gal/min. according to my flow meter. I'm thinking there may be little benefit going with an insulated MT. However, I could...

Hi All, I'm looking to upgrade from my 10 gal cooler with false bottom to a 20gal SS MT. I recirc with a pump and RIMS tube now. Does the insulated MT like the SSbrewtech have an advantage over a non-insulated MT? I'm thinking it would be just an extra cost. Although, the Spike MT's can get...

Interesting find with the screen gaskets. I've never seen those. I would imagine that they would get clogged up eventually depending on the amount of hop material left after the dumps. I've only had problems with my QD's getting clogged when transferring a NEIPA. I dry hop with bags now and...

Thanks for all of the input folks. I ended up getting a couple of the 20gal. silicone mats from SSbrew. Kind of pricey IMO but very high quality.

I'd hate to scratch up my new stainless surface. Any material work better than others? Cork? Silicon? Thanks!

Update on the build. 12 inch mill pulley and SS cart.

I have the hand crank for the mill but.......I'm milling 20# or so most of the time. I'm trying to shorten my brew day :)

Different v-belt pulleys are easy to get. But now it got me thinking of the effects of milling at higher RPMs. Will is work? Will it not produce consistent crush? I will have to run some tests. My other thought was some sort of speed controller. However, I assume that this is an AC induction...

Thanks Day_tripper, I'll load it up with just enough to keep the belt going and not slipping.

The drive pulley is 2". Mill pulley is 6". I can go larger on the mill pulley if needed. I thought the target was around 300 rpms for the mill.

It’s coming along. However, maybe the 1/3 HP motor would have been fine. My goal is to spare my nice cordless drills and maybe save time.

I'm on the fence about making the jump up to a 20Gal. mash tun partly because of the cost. I brew 10-12 gallon batches sometimes up to 20lbs. of grain. The mash is right up to the top of the cooler for a high gravity ale. A couple times I split the grain bill and did 2 mashes. It just makes the...

where I live, the ground water will chill my wort down to only 85-90deg F. I have to use a huge tub of ice water through my chiller to get the rest of the way, and it takes a while. I'm using a wimpy water fountain pump in the tub currently. Anyone see an issue with using my chugger wort pump...

Thanks doug293cz, I built my panel from one of your designs. The neutral is needed to run the 115vac stuff like pumps, EZ-boils, etc. I'm having an electrician stop by tomorrow to look at my breaker panel. The panel is old and from the late 80's. I may have to look at a spa panel solution if...

Thanks 501irishred, It looks like that product does not include the neutral line. My system uses the L14-30 connector that includes the neutral.

Hi Folks, I'm trying to avoid having an electrician come out and install a 30 Amp GFCI breaker in my panel. Are there any solutions for a portable GFCI device? I see a lot of North Shore Safety devices on Amazon, however, none are split phase. My control panel uses L14-30 connectors with the...

Now that I have the ability to cold crash my beer in the fermenters, can I cold crash for a few days to clarify, close transfer to kegs and then store them at a higher temp like 65deg? Or, after cold crashing, do they have to remain at serving temp from then on? Mostly talking about ales and...

Damn. I wish that I saw this 2 weeks ago. Just bought a Spike CF15.

Thanks Ralphie0523, I know that some of the lager yeast will give off sulfur odors when fermenting. This was really bad and not normal for WLP001. I cleaned and sanitized everything after and made a new starter with no problems. The instructions on the propper starter can does not say to...

Hi Folks, I'm not sure what happened. I made a 1 liter starter using WLP001, 1 can of Propper Starter (dated 04/15/19 on can bottom), and 16 oz of purified water. This is in a 2 liter flask and on a stir plate. Room temp between 65-70F. After 36 hours, the most awful sulfur smell developed...