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tonari, you can most likely still salvage the board despite the lifted pads, but you would really need some flux to help the solder flow. Scrape away the coating on the track leading to the lifted pad to expose the track, spread on copious amounts of flux and tin the track with some solder. If...

I initially thought I have a problem, too, as my spindles were showing wildly different temps when I first started calibrating the tilt. However, it appears that the temps will settle down to a correct level when the spindles are left alone for a bit, with an update frequency that is not...

That is genius, thanks for pointing it out. The designer shared the files a couple of posts down, so I loaded them up on Cura, and the size of the base sled is 35,6 x 118,0 mm, so the design is for the bigger petling, for anyone wondering. I built mine with the BAT43 diodes after reading up on...

The iSpindel reports the tilt itself on the info page after it has been calibrated on a level surface first.. unless I missed something?

Thanks for the heads-up. That reinforces my hunch. Guess I need to go hunt for some tire weights or slap a couple of nuts on there with hot glue.

I just finished building five of these. All of them accepted the firmware nicely and seem to work, as they seem to report tilt and temperature fine. I just need to calibrate them and try one out with my next brew. I got the XL petlings with a 33mm ID, and used this sled ->...

For anyone looking to replicate this: make sure to purge the oxygen out of the SodaStream fill hose as well as the gas hose prior to use. I kegged a hefeweizen about two weeks ago and it has turned slightly sour. I'm not positively sure about the cause being oxygen, as there was a broken layer...

I was battling with the fact that I can't easily move the co2 to my garage, where I transfer the beer from the fermenter to the keg. I thought I should purge the headspace as soon as possible after kegging to prevent the beer sloshing and mixing with o2 before I've carried the keg down into the...

DISCLAIMER: Pressurised gas can be dangerous and this post describes unorthodox methods. Anything you do is at your own risk. So with that out of the way, I am slowly building my kegging solution that involves a small, seven-foot deep cellar in the house, six kegs and a 10 kg (22 lb) CO2...

Sorry, just to clarify: The stuck spigot is in the BV. I’m referring to whirlpooling in the BV after the boil and before I drain the wort from the BV to the FV. I whirlpooled my third brew, but the spigot was still getting stuck and I had to siphon the wort into the FV. I broke out the...

Now that I think of it, the first two batches I brewed called for a 90 minute boil, which I did, but the latest two had a typical 60 minute boil. So maybe the coarser grind in combination with a shorter boil time (and consequently less boil-off) caused the slight drop in efficiency. Although...

Thanks for the good pointer, RM-MN -- I grind my own grains with a Corona-type mill, and I adjusted it coarser for the latest brew as I thought flour might be contributing to the stuck spigot. After pulling the hop spider post-boil I quickly realized that flour was not the issue but rather the...

So I thought I'd update the thread. I currently have four brews under my belt (two stouts, a hefeweizen and a nut brown ale), and it's been a learning journey for sure. I think the biggest thing I've been having difficulties with is the relationship between the weight of the grain bill, amount...

Thanks a lot, this will be my process from now on.

I'm going to enjoy a bottle now and then from the batch to see how it matures. I think I might have underprimed a bit, although I used the priming calculator (the batch was 20 l, and I added 95 grams of corn sugar based on a CO2 vol. ratio of 1,9). Kharnynb, let's try to arrange a swap some...

Would be interesting to hear OP's experience going forward -- did you get bottle bombs or was the beer under/overcarbed? I'm also a bit worried about oxidizing my beer. Sorry to hijack the thread a bit, but I'd like some input... I have pin-lock kegs, so purging is done with the gas-in post...

Thanks, everyone! Sounds like I'm going to let the beer carbonate at 23degC for a week or so, and then take it back to the garage and let it condition for a month or two at 15degC. Meanwhile, I'm going to brew a couple more batches so my kegs won't feel all neglected. The British Nut Brown Ale...

Hey everyone! So, I'm just starting out with homebrewing, and thought I'd post about my experiences here. I bottled my first ever brew (a stout) two weeks ago on the 5th, and popped open a bottle yesterday. The beer is definitely drinkable, and I'm pretty stoked. Woo! Carbonation is still on...

Hey Ed, thanks for the welcome! Thanks also for the reassuring pointers on the pin-locks. I'm trying to get my head around the differences (or lack thereof) of US/euro kegs... mine are italian made (two SAFER's, two Nuti's and two AEB's), and I'm having trouble pushing out the poppet valves from...

Thanks, man! Looking forward to sharing notes and some beers! :)