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I currently have an immersion chiller, and it works well for 10 gallon batches~ 15 min while recirculating, then I remove it, whirlpool, let sit, and pump to the fermenter. I am wondering if it would be a time savings to switch to using a counter flow chiller? Then I could chill and...

You see some commercial breweries use them like this small one: Steam condenser for the boil kettle. Cold water sprays in and condenses the steam from the kettle so it can just run into the drain instead of smelling up the neighborhood. Quote from Kal: For home use I don't see this really...

So... I have been kegging since this summer. everything was perfect good carbonation much easier. Now it seems my beers are overcarbed. My theory is that it got cold, my kegerator is heated to keep the beer from freezing in the shop/ mancave, but the co2 bottle sits outside of it, is it...

I see lots of people that have hard plumbed their gas lines, does anyone hard plumb everything else? I am working on mine and will post it up when I get it done. Hopefully yall wont show me up too much. :mug:

I am somewhere in the middle of my mash for an Irish red. I don't know where because my timer decided to set itself back to 0!!! Hopefully I guess close and it works out, should be 30ish minutes left. :mad:

So I just had an idea... scary I know I am working on a 2 tier rig with a grant on the mash tun. I plan on recirculating the mash (RIMS) to maintain temperatures. My idea is to mount an electric burner like a stove burner to the bottom of the grant (an old pressure cooker) with a float...

Has anyone ever used one of these as a weldless option for a water heater element? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GM0A10/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 With some stainless hardware i would think it would work... anyone tried it before or am I going to be the pig this time?

ok i know you are going to tell me to just get an Auber... but will this work? New Universal Digital PID Temperature Controller SSR Control output (1 alarm) | eBay I dont need a manual mode, I will just be using one for mash temp control via rims and one for HLT control.

I have been looking for a while and have found some clubs in Des Monies, Cedar Rapids and Davenport but nothing south of there. I live between Ottumwa and Bloomfield and was looking for something not to far. Anyone have any ideas, if not there are at least a handful of us that might try to...

Ok so it might not be new... but I hadnt seen it before my wife sugested it (yes I did not come up with it... not that creative). Making beer lables out of address labels! Has anyone else tried this before? They seem to come off nicely when it the beer is gone and there are lots of...

I have been looking for GFCI options for the 50A service I am hooking up to for my new electric system. What I have found so far is they dont exist or they are outragiously expensive. Will something like this work, I am not even sure how it works. I think it goes inline and all it does is...

So... we got a bonus this year, so the wife said I should do something for me. That means building an all electric rig so I can brew indoors in bad weather. I will keep this updated with my progress. What I am thinking so far: 5500W keggle for the boil run on a PWM circuit 2000W? RIMs tube...

Ok so... all these internet lingo stuff that I don't understand, some people have told me but I dont believe them so i made up my own SWMBO some women must be overbearing stupid whore my beer opened! back to the fridge... carry on. :tank:

http://ottumwa.craigslist.org/pts/2643999940.html Please tell me people dont actually put diesel in these!

So I am looking at bumping up batch sizes, and that means a new chiller. My immersion chiller works great, but why not improve designs with the new system? so what I am thinking of doing is building a tall cylinder (6 or 8" diameter 2-3' long) with an inlet towards the bottom at an angle to...

I've been looking around kicking around ideas for putting together an electric brew rig, and I have found tons of different diagrams that P-J has done. I was wondering who has an electric system that used one of P-J's diagrams, or used his expertise to help you build your system?

So I am looking at a spice ale: Is it too late for it to settle before the hollidays? Is this enough spice/ not enough? 9.25 lb 2 row 1.63 lb 120L 1 lb 80L .5 lb carafoam .75 oz willamette .75 oz cascade London Ale yeast Spices in secondary 10 days 1 ciniman stick .25 tsp...

So I was doing some research and investigating for building my all electric system and came across a wort grant and it gave me an idea. Has anyone ever tried to use a wort grant with a heating element in the grant to maintain mash temperatures? Might not have to be very big maybe 1500W...

So in my searching to find ideas for a kegerator i didnt come up with much in the way of tearing the guts out of an existing except for a fermentation chamber... i figured if it could work for that why not to keep my beer cold?... here is how it went. watch out... those pieces are sharp...

So a friend of mine and I were looking at the wort chillers and thought 30 min was a long time to cool it off (we cool off 1000 lb-ft desil engines with 100 degree air in no time). So... we designed and built this. It cools 5 gallon boils down to ~60 in just under 7 minutes. Not sure if that...