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Chose one style of burner and use it in all positions. This will save money from having to purchase and plumb a second regulator. Go cheap, as long as you have the power all you need is heat. I cant find the link but Agrisupply has $8 burners and $20? regs. they work great on my 10G rig.

If you don't try, you don't achieve.

Plates are easy to clean. Just toss it in to your oven on self clean during mash in heat up. By the time you are ready to chill the oven has burned anything in the plate to ash. A quick blow with air or flush with water and you have a clean sanitized plate. I use this method every third brew or...

I spent my first brewing summer dealing with 80* plus ground water. My solution was a CFC with a post chill coil packed in ice. details can be seen here. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/hell-earth-wort-chiller-73315/

Bad idea, StarSan makes too much foam, even at the recommended concentration. It will work but I would have the mop ready.

To start you are dalking about a 20* difference between coolant and wort. that is ridiculous for a plate. I don't know if this will help you much but by 20 plate long( charts showed that a 20 p long out performs a 40 p short) has an input coolant temp of 64* ran at a flow rate of 3GPM( I use a...

cut it then install a barbed nipple. secure with hose clamps.

Ok Catt, I got a little twisted up in thought and didn't get across what I was trying to say correctly. I was dealing with the total lift of the pump. IIRC a march has 12.1 feet. By trying to push 4 times the volume of water it would reduce the lift to about 3 ft. If the the wight of fluid at...

Cat is pretty much on target here. The common pump used is 1/2" ID which is adequate for our application provided you don't have a serious lift issue. By matching the pump ID to the hose and connector ID you will be assured of flow rates posted by the pump manufacturer for the design and build...

This filter has worked well for me. http://www.filtersfast.com/Pentek-ChlorPlus-carbon-filter.asp

Mine is direct fired and I use temp control to turn the flame on and off. since I am only maintaining temp the flame is very low and only comes on occasionally. I use a bucket lid for a lid and hotwater heater blanket for keggle insulation. Pics in the gallery.

I would go with the LG 3mdc( I think that is the right model) It has higher flow rates and head pressures. As for dual purpose, If you are only pumping water from the barrel you should be fine.

Yes or you could just do a flameout addition. Very close to the same concept.

bobby_m has a thread on a hopstopper. I built one and it works. If I were to do it again I would increase the hole size or decrease the wire size by one step. Boil bubbles seem to get caught in it, making pump priming a little difficult at first. Whirlpooling wont help the first several...

Here is the one I use. http://cgi.ebay.com/UL-Certified-Medium-20-Plate-SS304-Heat-Exchanger_W0QQitemZ230413481613QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a5b6b68d Although only a 20 plate, its extended length doubles the cooling capacity, giving more bang for the buck. the drawback was...

Guy, that would be per plate. Just over 5 square feet total area.

Keep the brands separate as you clean them. Some have different threads for the posts. I used to have a link telling the different kegs and threads, I'll see if I can dig it up.

Coconut shell is the cheaper form of activated carbon. While it is not as efficient as other types of carbon, with large filters it is more economical and works just as well.

What I posted was for optimum contaminate removal. I'm often cursed by time so I usually filter at Bobbys rate then add campden tablets. If you are only dealing with chlorine and not chlorimine then the combination of filter and campden works pretty well.

Since you are using DME, its hard to understand why they are coming out sweet. What yeast and ferment temps are you using? Switching to a more atenutive yeast might help as well as raising the temp toward the end of the ferment. Just tossing some stuff out since there wasn't a lot of info given. ;)