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I bought myself a 2nd RAPT Pill floating hydrometer. I also ordered a wireless charger kit with it so I won't need to keep taking it apart. However since i have lots of wireless charging pads around the house, I just ordered the barebones kit, which is the coil/usb cord, and weights. Barebones...

Hi all, I currently brew in my greenhouse, as I have 240v power there, and it's right beside my pool, which I use for cooling water in my counterflow chiller after boil. As an added bonus, that's essentially "free" heat for the pool when brewing. This works great, but I'm in a cold area, and...

After many dozens of batches of IPA's, stouts, red's, etc, I decided to try an NEIPA. I'm all setup for this type of beer as I have fermzillas for fermenting under pressure and dry hopping, I do closed transfers to purged kegs, so oxidization isn't an issue. Anyway, yesterday I brewed this one...

/Hi all, I normally use a hop spider but have been reading how it can affect flavour, and it would be nice to be able to skip that step if possible. My normal setup: Electric 16 gal kettle (doing 5 gallon batches) homemade counterflow chiller (1/4"or 3/8" copper, 25 feet) stainless pump. A...

I bought a Kegland RAPT Pill (floating Wifi hydrometer like Tilt) in February and used it a few times, I really like it. However on my last brew, it never reported in. After the batch was complete, I removed it and plugged it into USB. The battery level was reported at 100%, and connected to...

I brewed an imperial red yesterday (based on Northern Brewer Megalodon imperial red). The grains/yeast/hops were all coming via Fedex, and once I got the notification they were on the truck for delivery I decided to get prepared and got my mash water and sparge water heated up. It took like 5...

I've got a fermzilla which I really like, but I have one batch of beer fermenting right now already in it, and want to get a 2nd going (all 3 of my taps ran dry recently). I used to always brew in brew buckets, so I could just go back to that for the 2nd batch, but wondering about using my 10gal...

Hi all, I did my first pressure ferment this month, in my fermzilla. I went to xfer it into a keg today, all under co2 pressure to avoid oxygen. Most of the transfer went fine but when I got down below 2 gallons remaining in the fermzilla I started having issues. When the fermzilla starts to go...

I'm brewing in my garage, and the line coming into the garage is 12 gauge, so I'm limited to 20 amps on each leg. The wire comes into the garage, and then the red and black side each go into a 20 amp resettable fuse, then to a cutoff switch, and then into the breaker panel. I have a GFCI 20 amp...

I've just had a plain white old beer fridge that I had converted into a kegerator. I decided I want to paint it to make it look better. I'm an IT guy so I got the idea of doing a circuit board look, with the various chips on the board being chalkboard labels. I've already painted the fridge...

Using my fermzilla for the first time, have been using buckets for years. This is an old speckled hen clone recipe, danstar nottingham yeast. It's quite vigorous. Perhaps that's always how it looks below the surface, can't tell with buckets, but it sure is active.

I built a mobile brew cart this year but found I was always using it in the garage, and then I had a ton of spare lumber from dismantling ours kids doll house. So I decided to make a new area to brew. I also integrated a climate controlled fermentation area. I made it big enough to hold a 32...

I bought a malt muncher 2, and built an adapter plate so I could mount it on a bucket. I said it to the factory recommended 0.050 reading for an initial run, and ran some pilsner malt through. How does the output look? I'm thinking I might want to go a bit finer.

I made an Amber Honey ale today, I had found an 11 gallon recipe online and cut it all in half, but either I got way better efficiency than I expected or my math was off. I did 7.5 lb of 2-row, 3 lbs honey malt, 0.5 lbs crystal-60. I added some burtons salts to the RO water, and 1/2 tsp amalyze...

I built a counterflow chiller today for a little under $100 CDN. 20 feet of 3/8 tubing, 20 feet of 5/8 garden hose, and some fittings. I let some water drain through it until it stopped, then blew out what was trapped inside, only about 1 Tbsp, so I'm happy with that. Nothing leaks. I'll plan...

I noticed one of my kegs was getting low so decided to have a brew day. Don't have time later in the week so couldn't wait for grains to ship. This meant I had to make something with what I had onhand. I've been meaning to make a stout, and while my wife and I were on a mini vacation last week I...

I have a 2 L whiskey barrel, that currently has some cask strength bourbon whiskey in it. I just finished Brewing a maple oatmeal stout, and I was thinking of aging a couple liters in that barrel, can then compare it side by side with the non-aged. I know this is fairly common, but my question...

I build a brew stand for my kettle and mash tun. The kettle is setup for both gas and electric. I have the mash tun mounted beside the kettle, with a heat shield in between. There is a small pump for recirculating the wort during mashing and for transferring it around. I did a test fire on...

Hi all, I bought a Camco 2955 ripple element last week. I wanted to convert it to using a triclamp so I can mount it lower in my kettle. So I got a 1" NPS to triclamp adapter, and a triclamp bulkhead. The issue is, the combination of the adapter and bulkhead is about 1/4-1/2" too long, the...

Hi all, I searched but couldn't find an answer to this particular setup, so just want to make sure I can do what I want to do. My boiler is currently two 1500w 120V elements, want to switch to a single 4500 or 5500w 240v element, for a 16 gal boiler. I have a detached garage, it has a steel...