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This is a little different but might help you anyway. There's been a lot FUD about scorching your wort with a RIMS system. I avoided this potential by using a SCR to control the input voltage to my PID, which can only act as a PWM in regards to power to the heating element. In other words the...

Inside the fermentation box is an aluminum heat exchanger with an attached fan all from Amazon. The door seals with the same method used on your front door. The chamber was built with 2x4 lumber frame, 2 inch rigid foam panels and lauan plywood. There's a formular that gives the thermal...

7) Use the brewday frequency lever. 10 gallon batches give twice the beer for only a little extra work over the 5 gallon route. Brew based on your current and future drinkable (properly aged) inventory. Purchase locally for shortfalls. For me, each brew is actually two days, the actual...

I use BeerSmith to document literally everything. The note fields have a whole history of equipment upgrades, recipes and brewing results. I use two templates, one for brew day, and the other is a summary which I printout for quick reference at the kegerator. I guess the file types used by BS...

It's not a problem if you aren't trying to control the temperature with active cooling or heating.

I think I know what happened. And it is a number 2! Seal and pressurize your keg fermenter before cooling. I've used numerous fermentation chambers over the years without a problem and then five years ago purchased a Chronical Brewmaster 1/2 barrel fermenter, very nice equipment btw. The...

You might regret selling your rig, but I know you will not regret youtubing "Low Carb Down Under" when it comes to cholesterol and weight lose. I say this because I also almost gave up brewing. Now I save my carbohydrate consumption for my beer!

Actually, with one heating vessel which also serves as the mash tun, the time from the "start of heating strike water to boiling" decreases by not pre-heating the sparge water along with the strike water. The thermal loss during the mash period in which the sparge water is separately held has to...

Funny...my system is electric too, but I use a silicone mat as a floating mash return dispersion mat. The mat is outlined with a sealed silicone tube (floating part) and has a hundred+ small holes. Works great at preventing holes from being drilled during the recirculation and sparging keeping...

I just built a new fermentation chamber using lumber, rigid foam panels and a homemade heating and cooling thermoelectric system using tap water for the waste side and glycol solution for the chamber radiator/fan loop side. Water is much more efficient than using fans on the peltier devices...

There is so much down time while brewing that it makes it easy to clean as you go. The first brew day the brew is in the fermenter in ~7 hours, the second brew day the obligatory brew cart updates are done and everything is packed away in around 2 hours. The elephant in this discussion is the...

If you thoroughly stir the mash grains instead of manipulating the brewbag and the flow is restored then it must be the new brewbag mesh size causing the issue in your setup. All things the same. Recently replaced mine and stayed with the 200 mesh size.

Consider mounting your drill and barley crusher so you can directly crush the grist into the mash tun. Saves steps and lowers the dust. This of course only works when you are underletting the strike water, which again would be saving effort since you would be pumping the water into the bottom...

Has anyone tried stripping oxygen from the mash water by purging with carbon dioxide while heating to the strike temperature? Purging with pure nitrogen is how oxygen is removed from water in the lab.

Thank you in advance. I've been thinking about BIAB later, maybe this is why! Please count me in too.

There are two phenomenas being discussed here. For brewers it's the flash boiling due to the pressure drop at the pump inlet when near boiling wort enters. When the pressure is lowered the boiling point is also lowered, hence the wort flash boils. The steam produced could break the pump...

Another factor not mentioned here is the noise level of your exhaust fan and pumps. If you are going to spend 4+ hours in a hard walled room brewing consider purchasing the quietest equipment and possibly sound proofing on the walls.

I average about one 10 gallon brew a month and purchase (LHBS/online) all my base malts by the sack for the convenience and savings. And I just made a killing at Hopsdirect.com by buying hops by the pound at nearly 60% savings over previous purchases. The advantages to bulk purchases aren't...

I'm finished, done, over with the lite beer phase of my brewing! The first lite beer used ~5 grams of glucoamylase in the mash and used lower than normal grist levels for my standard NEIPA. It came in at 1.008 gravity and was just drinkable. The next two I got aggressive using a lot more...

Me two!