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I need to order a few hundred pounds of grain and proportional amounts of yeast and hops to export to Roatan Island. I'm looking for a supplier near Miami as that's where the ship is. I'll use a refrigerated container. I'm also looking for suggestions on recipes to use those consumables to...

I believe this thread concerns RECIRCULATING chill water. If you recirculate the water you eventually end up with the equilibrium case. Any advantage a technology provides on the first use of a molecule is negated on that molecules second use as it is now hot.

dyqik: I should have corrected beermanpete on his post where he incorrectly states I'm assuming a mixing of water. I'm not. I clearly state I'm assuming a 100% efficient heat exchanger and I back that up with simple arithmetic that always uses 10G for all three steps of my example. If I were...

beermanpete: It makes absolutely no difference if the liquids are combined or not. It's a function of the energy transfer only. My example tried to show how much cooling water would be required given the stated optimistic assumptions. Your last sentence is true enough and IS exactly the same as...

This thread has some cobwebs on it, but here goes ... I have no brew equipment, have never brewed before and live on Roatan Island. I'm slowly gathering enough information to purchase equipment (3 kettle HERMS all electric) and will obviously need grains, etc. I'm starting out all grain and...

I picked that value (38) because it's the standard refrigeration temperature. My post actually was geared towards having a chiller available of some sort. A real glycol chiller would be below freezing. Point is, if you try to recirculate the output back to the input, you're defeating the...

If you're coming down from 212 to, say, 60, then you will need a lot of cold water to accomplish that. From : http://www.chemteam.info/Thermochem/MixingWater.html Mixing water formula: Qh*(Th-Tf)=Qc*(Tf-Tc) Where: Qh = Quantity of hot water Qc = Quantity of cold water Th = Temp of hot water Tc...

I'm trying to figure out where the reasonable dividing line is in terms of kettle sizes to be able to do experimental brews of 5G of beer (>5G of mash) and also to get the largest kettles to maximize the upper potential. Moving liquid through the grain bed efficiently is the goal. It seem...

You hit that nail right on the head. I want to know why things are done and what the benefits are versus another method. I assumed that strike water was maybe 20% of the liquid total. Now I see I was way off now that i KNOW better, thanks to you folks. Right again. I have to deal with customs...

Yooper: The part I was missing was to evaporate large quantities of water to concentrate the wort. Thank You. You consistently come to my aid. My wife, the baker, says making bread is chemistry. Since beer is liquid bread then brewing must be chemistry, and chemistry says there are optimal...

doug293cz: I read those two references and understood about 10% of the content. It's the jargon and definitions that evade me. I'm an engineer, so graphs and numbers are like oxygen to me, but the use of terms unknown to me renders the content a mystery. I thought Plato was an ancient...

doug293cz: Thanks for the two references. I'll read them in the morning. I read this at least 6 times and don't quite get it. Can you give me an example with numbers please?

I'm planning on fly sparging, but who knows - I may try batch too. I have access to ridiculous amounts of refrigeration / ice. I just counted up the commercial refrigerators and freezers and it comes to 9 units. I'm also planning on having a dedicated unit for fermentation refrigeration that...

I know there is no one answer to my question, but there must be some reasonable range of ratios. What are they? What follows is for an all electric HERMS system. The reason I ask the question is because I've broken the HLT's job down to three functions - Produce the initial strike water...

Just finished watching your video. Very well done and shows off BruControl's capabilities in an understandable fashion. Learned something new again - Fermcap - never heard of it before. You use a pressure sensor for measuring liquid volume? Is that really accurate? If you had it to do over...

mongoose33: When I start placing order with MoreBeer, it's going to run into some serious money and I definitely want them to understand that they have to get everything right the first time. Warranties are worthless here because of what it takes to get the part back to the source. Whatever...

Coming from you, that's good enough for me.

I weld MIG and TIG and need CO2 and Argon. Not so long ago, I ordered a 125 of CO2 and a 125 of Argon from Airgas in Fl; cylinders plus gas plus hazardous materials paperwork, plus, plus, plus = $600 in Fl. I'm going to repeat that order in another month for backup cylinders. I can get the CO2...

I'm interested in the Torpedo kegs, so I watched this video:https://youtu.be/LxuWrmrZs-E Clearly there's rust on the top of the keg where the bail rests. Have you guys experienced rust on your kegs? It also shows what's holding down that bail - spot welds on some thin metal. Pictures of...

JONNYROTTEN: I have never seen a keg here. All soda comes in bottles or cans. All local beer is in bottles or cans. All bars, hotels, restaurants serve everything in bottles or cans. The only place on the island that was bringing in kegs of Guinness quit after a few months. I've tried dealing...