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My fridge, being so old, you cant set the freezer and fridge to different temps. I place the probe on the carboy and set the temprature to what ever i need it at. The freezer portion is approx 20 degrees cooler than the fridge no matter what it is set to. Right now im lagering the the bottom is...

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I got the fridge for 10 bucks on craigslist. controller on Ebay for $20 then $30 in parts at Lowes and I'm good to go. I took pictures of the controller build. I took a scrap piece of plywood and mounted 2 boxes to it. I used 2 cause the fridge in in a closet type thing in the garage and i...

you scared me for a second there haha. I was like i thought that was actually a little on the low side. Temp reading were at about 70 and i took into accound the small difference. I actually ran and checked that i wasnt using my 160* hydrometer but it was right. I also put my hysrometer in tap...

O.k. here are some numbers Grain Bill 1/2 lb 60L 9 lb 2row 1 lb 90L 3 gallons of strike water washed in at 160. I added the 5.2 ph stabilizer and at 30 min the PH was 5.0 and the temp was 154 in the center. I mashed in a 10 gallon igloo cooler with a false botton. I rinsed the grains and had a...

I did my first all grain and the OG was a 1.040. after primary and secondary the FG is 1.002. target was about a 1.014 i think. Is that from a bacteria or wild strain of yeast? 10.5 lbs of grains and the WPL002 yeast. That was in the started for about 24 hours prior. An help would be nice

Cool. Thanks for the quick replies

Correction... It's the white labs wlp002 English ale yeast

So I did my starter like normal. About 3oz of dme. Boiled it, cooled it, pitched a wyeast English ale yeast. On the stir plate it looks like it is curtled. When I stop the spin all the clumps fall down and seperate really quick. I've never had a starter do that before. Did I do something wrong?

I just used a piece of nylon hose. but its the kind with a braid inside the nylon

Yea i just made mine. 10g rubbermaid cooler with the 12" bottom. Fits nice. You can buy a bulk head and valve (i imagine northern brewer has them) What i did was just buy a SS fender and silacone oring and took it all to lowes and just pieced it all together. i havent used it yet but it looks...

yea it'll work, prob not the best. Thats a reg for a big supply tank similar to the ones we use on the ambulance, we get our supply tanks from places like airgas. But medical O2 comes in an aluminum tank and has to be filtered. Welding gas doesn't. That being said Thats a pretty big tank...

If your having trouble finding wood consider looking at cargo pallets. It may sound wierd but most of them are good hard wood, occasionally exotics. I took wood shop for 4 years back in high school and the first few days were usually pulling nails.

cool thanks. I bought some hose clamps with it but wasn't sure if i wanted to put them on. harder to clean. And the little bit that seeps through, i figure, wouldn't really make much of a difference. Am I off here? Am I just being lazy?

So between my sisters giftcard to AHS and SWMBO's dads giftcard to Lowes i finally made my MLT today. I got the braided nylon tubing for the inside piece going to the false bottom. Any issues with this? Especially cause it will be under heat for a decent period of time.

I've got one in the carboy now that i used 4lbs with. OG was 1.078 and after 2 weeks im a 0.997. I used the cote de blanc yeast though (as recomended by the guy at my LBS) OG of the apple juice before the sugar was 1.046

I've done a few beer batched but tomorrow is going to be my first Cider. I'd like something a little sweeter. The guy at the LHBS suggested I use red star cote des blancs so i picked up a pack of that. That yeast says it stops working around 12-14% I was wondering if i added a lot of sugar to...

looks nice..... forgive me if i sound dumb. Why not just do single tier? I mean isn't the point of using triple tier so you don't have to spend the money on pumps? You spent all that time to make a nice set up, for a few extra bucks you could have thrown in some pumps and made it easier to brew...

Ive got my 60L steeping right now. Brewing a Cal common tonight. And drinking an amber. Anyone else doing anything exciting?

a spade bit would work on thin sheet metal but its not my first choice and would screw up the bit after a while. a forstner wouldnt work on metal. A hole saw set is prob gonna be your best bet for the different stuff you wanna do