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I had a porter in fermentation and went to transfer to keg and this is what I found. I used sal-04 and kept it at 67 degrees. It smells and tastes good but don't want to make anyone sick.... i should note it's been fermenting for a month which isn't normal for me. It's been busy. What do you...

So my old chest freezer I was using as a fermenter gave up the ghost.. so I now am using an upright freezer. I have it wired and ready to go but wanted to see if anyone has tried using the defrost heating element for heat. I don't know what the duty cycle are on those but if I could I would...

I'm trying to clean up my panel and everything associated. I need a set of knowledgeable eyes to make sure this will work. I'm putting my pressure sensors on one board and have them sharing vcc and ground. Also, I want to add the recommended vcc and data filters. My question is can I do...

So I've been a semi successful Brewtroller users for the past 4 years but often find I have to tinker with it a lot or always run into something during my session that gets screwed up. I'm now at the crossroads of do I want to upgrade from 4.0 to the DX1 or look at something else. The only...

I've been asked to make something gluten free... I'm looking for a recipe that is easy but good beer. What would you recommend?

So this saturday I did my first all grain of Ed's pale ale. Besides a few mishaps I ended up with right at 5 gallons of 1.061 sweet wort . so @ 7:30 pm I pitch my nottingham yeast (dry) and put it to bed in the fermentor freezer at 67 degrees. I checked it today with no activity and after...

Finally after many hours I think I'm ready to migrate from extract to all grain. I've passed the wet test and worked through my process. Its an all electric HERMS with a brewtroller to control it. However, I have to finish configuring it. Still have a few items I need to add as well but...

Who uses their Herms coil in the HLT to cool their wort. I can't decide if I want to use this process or go ahead and get a plate chiller. I would expect to use an ice bath in the hlt to hit the 70 or less mark especially in the summer.

so i go to test my control panel for the first time plug it it turn the switch and nothing... better than smoke but as it turns out i mistakenly got the wrong contactor. i had them wired as being 24v coils instead they are 220v. 120v will move the coil but it bounces like crazy and makes an...

I'm looking to finalize my eherms system with a automation system. I'm down to picking the brewtroller or the bcs-460 (462) but can't decide which one to chose. Hoping I can get some feedback from both camps on why you made the decision and would you do it again. I'm very comfortable with...

I need two pumps for my single tier system. I would like to get a couple little giants but they are too much for my current budget... so looks like it will be march for now. My question is why does the March 809 PL-HS-C have a 3/8 inlet, is this the one to get, or should I just get the...

For everyone that is using a herms coil in a keggle how much pipe did you use? For about 2 hours this weekend I have attempted to bend 50' 1/2 od ss coil to fit. Without kinking... I'm wishing now I went the copper route what a pain the rear... Besides that the coil is just at 10.5"...

Maybe I'm being thick skinned but I can't seem to get my fermentor to stay within a tight temp range. I have the TSS2 Dual stage so I can heat during the winter months. I only have one temp probe and think I have it set correctly for that but right now its reading 59.5 and I have everything...

Has anyone every tried to use a CPAP for aeration. For those that don't know what a CPAP is its for folks with sleep apnea and is basically a digitally controlled filtered air pump that is used to push air down your throat to keep it open. It would still require an inline filter too not to...

I know this has been beat to death but is anyone using a regular sanke keg as a fermentor using the spear intact with a keg coupler attached with the check valved removed so it can breath. My thoughts were to do this for the first couple of days and then put the check valve in to naturally...

Anyone in the Nashville area have a local welder you can recommend. I need to get my couplers welded and need to make sure they do a clean sanitary weld with SS. I have talked to a shop in Mt. Juliet but thought I'd ask around.

I'm sure its listed somewhere but a quick search didn't find what I was looking for. I need to get back to setting up my keggles and want to use welded couplers. Which part # should I use from mcmasters or any other provider. I know it needs to be 1/2" but after that I'm a bit blurry...

I finally got tired of trying to keep my fermentors within temp with wet towels and other manual processes so I hopped on CL and found a fridge/freezer within 3 miles for a decent price. My question is I'm looking at getting the love tss2-2100 do I need two separate temp prob's or will one...

haven't decided what I'm going to do with it yet but for $20 I couldn't pass it up.. I'm thinking maybe a fermentor... I'll have a better idea once I get my hands on it. Its original life was a water distiller. what do you think?

After getting my stainless quote $230/10' for my brutus 10 build I'm thinking mild steel powder coated my be a better option (read I'm cheap). Anyone on here in the Nashville, tn area have someone I could use. I've called around but haven't found anyone yet. I was wondering how it would hold...