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I've had a medium Brewha BIAC sitting in my garage unassembled for 5 years (kids/business/life), and it's finally time to build this thing. At the time I also ordered a ton of parts to build a control panel for it. I remember I pretty much had the panel design figured out, but being 5 years ago...

For all of you running 5500 watt elements at 110v (which would result in 1375 watt output), how are you wiring them? I'm building out 2 control panels for a Brewha BIAC I just ordered, and planned on having 1 dedicated "Brew" controller with 220v output to the element, and a separate...

I've been contemplating building out an Electric 3-tier system, with the aspiration of volume sensing, fill and valve automation, etc. From my research my understanding is that BCS can do valves, but doesn't really have the capability for volume sensing, Strangebrew Elsinore can sense...

I brewed an Oktoberfest as one of my first 5 gallon batches a few months back (actually brewed it in March/Marzen), but kicked the keg far before October. In that batch I used w-34/70, and it came out delicious and really malty. I submitted it to a competition and it scored around a 33, with...

Wondering if anyone has some insight into why my stout tastes like a Cola with no head, instead of a smooth, rich stout. My main suspicions: 1) S-04 yeast: I fermented this at 62 for the first week and 68 for the second week. I then kegged and room-temp conditioned (around 72) for 3 weeks...

So, I'm not entirely sure what's going on here, but here's my situation: I brewed 5 gallons of an Oktoberfest on Friday, which went fairly well, I missed my OG by 3 points, but still a healthy 1.057. I mashed a little higher this time at 154, since my last batch mashed at 152 finished a little...

I've been pondering an automated brew setup, and one area I always trip over is how to handle the dough-in. It's conventional wisdom that you need to stir the mash to eliminate dough-balls....but none of the appliance-level automated systems do that (Picobrew, Grainfather, Brewie, etc.) So...

As I start brewing for myself, I really want to start focusing on creating great organic beers (pretty hard to find...even went to the Organic Beer Festival in Portland this last spring/summer and was pretty disappointed in the beers). My LHBS has lots of organic malts, but not Maris Otter...