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Looking to downsize so selling my 3 keggle electric herms system. Bj has 5500w element (camco) w copper dip tube and stainless Weldless ball valve. Hlt has stainless 5500w element, 50’ copper coil, copper dip tube w stainless ball valve. Mash tun has 9” domed false bottom and stainless ball...

I have been brewing for 3 or 4 years now on an electric 3v here’s system i diy’d out of keggles I made and am looking to downsize my footprint, and maybe shorten brew day slightly. I want to buy a good kettle w/ tri clamp fittings to use with a wilser bag for full volume, no sparge mashing. I...

im flying into Dallas this week to stay a few days in Plano for work. Looking for recommendations on breweries to hit on the way from the airport to plano(a 30 minute drive I’m told). Any help would be appreciated if any locals can chime in.

im considering going to single vessel ebiab and am intrigued by the halo coils ability to have a bag rest on it, so I was considering purchasing one of their kettles. The problem is, they have an integrated pt100 temp probe which they state makes it only possible to run off their controller. I...

anyone thinking about buying one of these if they release this month? I’d love to hear feedback from other people who owned the original Fermentasauras. I own 2 ss brew buckets and love those, but would like to be able to ferment/pressure transfer. This seems like a much cheaper, easy way to...

ive been brewing for a little over a year and have brewed quite a few clean beers. I am thinking about trying a recipe on the forum that’s a “training wheels” Berliner but have a couple general kettle sour questions. First, can I sour in a regular brew bucket, or does it need to be something...

i built a pid controller for my 3v eherms keggle system that I’m having issues with. 5500 w element in 15 gal hlt run by an Auber ezboil 320 pid controller. The rtd probe is threaded into a 1/2” npt tee on the out side of the germs coil. I’ve pretty consistently had a problem with the probe...

i have a 2 yap kegerator in the house, but am putting a new nitro tap on the ferm/lager fridge in the garage. It’s a regular kitchen fridge, and am wondering if any guys who have converted a full size fridge to kegerator have any advice or tips on location for tap or anything else relating to...

I use a wilser bag for my mash tun on my 3 keggle eherms system, and wanted to try a quick 5 gal no sparge before the regularly scheduled 10 gal batch this week. I ended up with 1.042 og instead of 1.053... I crush to medium gap (.50 I think). Does anyone have tips for increasing efficiency...

So I made edworts pale last week and split a 10 gal batch between a carboy and plastic bucket. Carboy Krause dropped about 7 days after pitch....just opened bucket and it’s got a huge foamy krausen at 13 days....used us05 for both....should I repitch?

So I recently upgraded from a keggle pot, and cooler mash tun to a single tier 3 keggle herms electric system that I built myself. I generally brew 10 gallon batches, but have decided to try and make a 5 gallon batch of a imperial stout before I make my big 10 gallon batch on the same brew day...

THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!...really though, I made an e herms keggle system over the last month or so and had a fiasco for the first brew day, so I have no baseline for efficeincy. Im using a wilser bag in my mash tun in lieu of false bottom or manifold. I got the impression from the electric...

so I built a mash temp controller w a Auber ez boil on 240 running a 5500w element....I used the diagram below but omitted the fuses and the element switch. It heats great, problem is, once it heats to mash temp it keeps going up. The element runs full bore no matter if it’s reached temp or...

Looking for some input on a controller. I’m currently in a keggle and cooler setup and am having problems hitting temps and would like the ability to step mash so I’m working on an electric herms 3 vessel. I want to be able to support 2 5500w uld elements ala electric brewery website. It...

For ales, if primary is mostly complete in 4 or 5 days, do temps still need to be to be controlled, or is it ok after primary is complete? FOr instance: if I ferment in my mini fridge at 65ish for 5 days and then put it out at room temp (usually about 70 deg) until I decide to keg, will the...

so I’m buying a combo fridge/freezer as a ferm fridge and had a question. If I plug it in to a inkbird, will the freezer operate at the same temp as the fridge, or no?....since there’s only one plug I’m not sure how the temp controller operates.

I have harvested/washed yeast before, but this is my first time harvesting just cake/slurry from the bottom of a bucket and I had a question. Instead of pouring the yeast out into jars, I used my hand to dip the mason jar into it to fill. Hands and jar were clean, and dipped in stars an prior...

So this is my first ferm in glass carboy, and after 2 weeks I still have what appears to be a hip foam...10 gal batch of zombie dust clone, 5 in plastic 5 in glass, fermented down to 1.012 (4 points better than expected) but still has this hunk on top....plastic is clear, just glad that shows...

I'm on my 15th brew at this point, so I know not to freak out, but 48 hours in and no airlock activity. funny thing is 2 buckets (10 gal batch) and one is chuggin away, while the other is not. Same wort, same yeast, even the same brand bucket....So I opened the inactive one and I have what...

hey guys, Ive been lurking on the forum for a couple months. Live in Annapolis MD, and started brewing after I got a NB kit for christmas this year. Did a couple extract batches, and DIY'd an all grain setup after a month, so I've got about 6 or 7 batches on that so far. Got into the hobby...