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I received a shipment from HopsDirect yesterday and their packaging is as described in post #18 by IslandLizard.

This picture looks very similar to a thermostat found on natural gas water heaters. The black nob should controls the temperature setting and the mode for lighting the pilot light. As Broken Crow stated, you need to make the orifice on the burner smaller for propane since the pressure is higher...

I have struggled getting satisfactory banana flavor in my Hefs using WLP300. I will have to try Lallemand Munich Classic. What fermentation profile and pitch rate do you guys use?

Route your CO2 through the water intake that goes to the ice maker in the freezer compartment. I know you said you have a fridge and that my recommendation only works if you have a fridge/freezer combination. Good luck.

Curt, is all of your brewing equipment gone? If not what’s left?

I don’t believe that any crown cap will work with these style bottles.

I have used plastic mushroom style corks from champagne bottles with these heavy style Belgian bottles. I hammer them in with a rubber mallet and then add a wire cage to hold the cork in place as it naturally carbonates.

That's the most common arrangement. That fan should turn on when the compressor turns on and should turn off when the compressor turns off. There may be a lag time on both starting and stopping. Why not leave that fan in place? The fan is probably AC powered, so if you connect it to your...

Check out the STC-1000+ or https://github.com/matsstaff/stc1000p. It holds 6 profiles with up to 10 setpoints each and it can do ramping between setpoints.

Here is a couple pointers from my past build experience. * Understand how the cooling and electrical system of your side by side work. This will help you decide what you want to keep and what you want to replace. You may be able to use the existing temperature controller to set the freezer...

I am not clear on your post size; you wrote "5 inch by 20 foot". Is that 5" x 5" x 20' or 5" diameter x 20'. What are your posts made out of? Use metal if you can. Buried 5' in the ground seems over kill. I think 3' in the ground would be enough and this will give you an additional 2' of height...

@MR BEER - I use EVA Barrier tubing, for both beer and gas, in the freezer section of my side-by-side kegerator(freezer side)/fermentation chamber (refrigerator side). Add a shelf in the freezer side and you can fit more kegs. I keep the CO2 tank outside and run the gas tubing into the freezer...

@ninkwood - I am not intending to derail your thread, but I am curious as to what you have learned on your pizza journey that started making your pizza "just right". What are the main keys that you have learned on your 20 year pie making sojourn?

I agree. Rouse the yeast and warm it up as stated. From the picture, the darker green at the bottom looks like hop mater, then yeast and trub. If there is still a lot of yeast and the cake hasn't solidified after packaging, poor the remaining contents of the fermenter into a growler or two and...

Sorry for the finger glitch before finishing my post. Take a look at the MAX31889. Accuracy is 0.25 C from -20C to 105 C and is I2C based. Or MAX31888 that has the same accuracy but uses the one wire protocol. You wont need to calibrate a silicon based temperature sensor.