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Helles

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How are you sealing off the mash tun if you are applying heat from a burner? If you don't have the bottom of the tun insulated, then heat is escaping from the bottom. If you have the tun setting on a burner stand, you have good thermal conductivity path from the mash tun to the burner stand...

There wasn't much science to my design. The reflectix I bought was 24 inches tall, so that was the basis of my design. Cut a square 2 ft x 2 ft. From that square, cut a circle that is 2 ft in diameter. That is the top. The circumference around the top is pi*d or 2*pi*r, so 24 * 3.14159 =...

I usually check it at the top of the grain, stir the grain and then check it again.

I just made a cylinder out of reflectix a couple inches wider than the keggle, taped it with aluminum foil tape, and then cut out a circle for the top from reflectix and taped it to the cylinder. I have the keggle setting on some pink styrofoam building insulation. I mash in, then put the...

I loose about 1 degree in an hour mash with reflectix. I have a 2 in air gap around the sides and top of the keggle for the mash tun. Tape the reflectix with aluminum tape.

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I pretty much stick to the Limited Edition Kits that you must preorder from Wine Expert in the fall. With wine kits, I have found that the more you pay, the better the wine is. At least with the mainstream kits that the LHBS stores stock. Not a wine snob, but the difference between a...

Stefin, Bairds Munich will work if you cannot get Best. Milan

I found this video... The video says BS 008 I mic'd out my o-rings, which are in pretty bad shape, but the size looks correct. 0.070, 3/16 id, 5/16 od. mcmaster has these http://www.mcmaster.com/#o-rings/=i1vd39 I opt'd for the square ones, because I don't think the o-rings are...