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For our wedding, I brewed two beers along the lines of what you're thinking. For the lighter one, I did a belgian witbier with jasmine rice and honey, since bees were kind of a running theme in our ceremony. It was a big hit, and all 10 gallons of it ended up gone. The other beer was a rich...

Wow... that is awesome that they would share like that! I love their beers, but stuff like that makes me like them even more. :mug:

You can figure out what kind of attenuation they're getting out of the yeast from the ABV and a gravity reading of the beer. You'll need to degas the beer and warm it up to room temperature, and then use your hydrometer to see what the SG of the fermented beer is. Just as an example- Their 90...

First error... your e-stop only kills one of your feeds. If it's BIAB... why do you need two PID's? One pid, two SSR's, one contactor is enough.

The sensor probe cable is fully encased in silicone and since they are advertising it for sous vide, I'm guessing it's waterproof... but if you wanted a ghetto waterproof setup it'd be easy to make a copper thermowell for it. Simple is good! It definitely wouldn't be worth it to replace...

For the same price as the timer controller, Auber sells this PID controller complete with a temperature sensor. It's not SSR based, but for this type of application a relay is going to be just fine. http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=471

Yikes... I was just looking at their enclosure as it is priced pretty well with the DIN cuts... what holes did you have them do? Could you post a picture?

I started having all sorts of issues with my regulator, so I took it apart to rebuild it... and I found quite a bit of corrosion, and one of the gauges was stuck as well. It was a really cheap regulator, and I'm sure that had a hand in its demise, but I'm sure it would have lasted longer in a...

It was a bit of a rollercoaster ride reading this thread through from start to finish... I got to your first post about FB and hit the "404 not found page" and just assumed your brewery had gone the way of many before it. It was a nice relief to see your NEW fb page with lots of pics of a full...

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Ah, gotcha. I bought all male-threaded QD's with the plan to do the street elbows, so I'm out of luck on those ones. He also just has plain, straight 5/8" hose barbs for only $8 ea... that's the cheapest price I've seen anywhere...

Do you have a picture of one of the fittings?

Thankfully that is not one of my carboys- just a picture I found searching google for "carboy handle broken"... you can see a bunch of pictures just like that one, or some others where it separated right at the base. Either way it's broken glass and 5 gallons of liquid all over the place. I...

If you carry around a full carboy with a carboy carrier handle, you are asking for trouble. You can look forward to something like this:

My only question is... what are you gonna do the next time there's 4" of water in that spot?

I wouldn't do boiling water.... people have warped/cracked/destroyed their cooler mash tuns using boiling water. Try 160-170f. That'll be hot enough to tell you if it will work well without danger of melting it.

Wow... 100F delta at 2gpm... that rocks! Very interested to see more pics of it.

It is a replacement for a Love controller at an incredibly cheap price... but even a Love controller is not suitable for a RIMS. You just can't cycle the element on and off fast enough with a mechanical relay.

One other thing to consider is that it's not really designed for cycling an element on and off as fast as a PID does. A PID with an SSR has the ability to "throttle" a heating element down by using a cycle time of 1 second or so. I highly doubt the aquarium controller could do that.

I randomly found a reference to tafelbier when I was looking through the wikipedia article on Belgian beers.. I will definitely be trying this! I may try to squeak a few more IBU's in there... nothign crazy, bump it up to 15 or so, and then add a touch of dry hopping for some nose.