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I'm looking for a kettle for small (2.5g to 3g) batches. I'm looking at 24qt Bayou Classic pots or the 26qt Concord pot on eBay. I've been digging the BIAC stuff, looks cool, but expensive, but it got me thinking. Has anyone or could you stick an element in a Brew Bucket and have some of...

I currently have a Camco 2000W HWD element in my kettle, it sticks into the kettle about 6 inches. My kettle is a 10g Concord kettle, ~14" in diameter. I've been playing around with the boil the last few days, to see how it's working. With the lid on I can get a vigorous boil at 208 degrees...

Rule number 1 of Electric Brewing Club: Always ask if you don't know, before you do dumb stuff! Anyway, I finished wiring up my panel and was testing it out without any load. Everything tested fine but my SSR. I was getting 120v on the output side of my SSR. (120v panel). This seemed odd, so...

Title says it all. I've been working on my electric brewery for I don't know how long. I purchased a 12x12 Carlon box from Home Depot and was planning on using it for my panel. I've got it drilled, and probably 95% of my wiring is done. I go out to the garage this morning to get the box to bring...

Some left over parts from by yet to be completed build. 4 - Swagelok compression elbows. SS810-8-8. 1/2" Compression 90 1/2" Female. These are Swagelok branded. Three are new never touched, the other one has been dry fitted, but no brews through it. $20 each and $5 shipping. Buy one or all...

I'm planning a simple one element brutus 20 style build with a smaller enclosure. I'll be using a 40a SSR with an external heat sink that will be outside of my plastic enclosure. As I have things planned right now, the PID and SSR are sitting diagonal from each other (think black squares on a...

I thought I'd post this for anyone thinking about this route for a weldless bulkhead. It may work for you, but not me. I wanted to combine Kal's weldless bulkhead with the idea of a soldered washer. I don't have a propane torch, so I JB welded a washer to a hex nipple and added some food...

Can someone look over my idea for a holding circuit / DIY safe start circuit and give me some feed back. This is for a 120v rig. The power switch is a 2-way maintained switch with NO contact. The element and pumps are 2-way maintained switch with a NO and NC contact. The NO driving the...

I'm planning my brewery build and had a question on a HERMS coil. I'm planning on installing a HERMS coil in my boil kettle that will double as a chiller in my two vessel setup. This will be a small 3-4 gallon batch setup. My kettle is 11 1/2" in diameter. I would like to put a 1/2" stainless...

I've got three partial boil extract batches under my belt and I'm ready to move on to all grain brewing. I'm planning 4-5 gallon batches BIAB style for now. So far, I've got a nine gallon pot, and I'm working on a fermentation chamber. I'm working on different options for heat, but my main...

My last batch of beer was a hopped extract can over 10 years ago. I took advantage of a groupon deal and got a new kit and brewed it up Friday. Overall I'll give myself a C, should be okay but lots of room for improvement. Here are some things that tripped me up and room for improvement that may...