Still anxiously waiting for mine.....so in the meantime...
Just got an email from Josh, my brewhemoths shipped out on Friday and tracking is showing delivery EtA of tomorrow!
Same here.
I got an email today too! Wednesday is when it is set to arrive! Just finished tiling/grouting the kitchen. The good news about the old fridge leaking water and damaging the kitchen means new fridge for the house and a new fermentation chamber for my Brewhemoth! My two weeks of leave is going to be filled with getting my brewery full up and running again.
getting jealous!!!!
Well they are here and they are safe! Well packed imo. I'll get pics up tomorrow!
I was working in the garage today and my Brewhemoth was getting its lean on. No more casters for me. I am going to put the original feet back on it. The length of the caster stud coupled with the tac weld for the nut to the legs made it too weak. Last thing I want is for this thing to tip over when it is full of beer.
Pressure ferment is where it's at. Screw the sightglass.Arggg, I'm ready to buy mine but I can't decide! should I pressure ferment or should I use a blow off tube so I can have a nice sight glass on the bottom? (I'm guessing that glass doesn't handle more than 2 psi)
I would like to keep everything closed because I usually can't get my wort down from 80 degrees when I chill, so I chill in the fridge. While I'm chilling, the pressure sucks water into the fermenter. I'm figuring having everything closed will not suck any air or water back in (I don't want air coming in either because I've seen fruit flies in my garage).
But! that sight glass is just damn sexy! and I like that I can see what I'm dumping, I had a plastic fermenter and some of the times I was dumping a lot of beer instead of trub and/or yeast.
I use the sight glass as a yeast catcher after the dump valve. Use it after initial fermentation is complete to save some yeasties......close the valve and pressure ferment during the final few points of gravity.
:rockin:Got my long awaited email from Josh today!! Mine are on their way!!!!
thats when mine are coming....have to blow off work, cause they are "signature required"
BH ended up sending me the ones that have a 1/2 FPT fitting on them, so you could use them with a dial thermometer. They told me it would be a while for the other ones.
I ran my chiller with water in it and it gets cold in a hurry! Have a leak between the PVC fitting and the pump discharge, so i have to get that worked out before i add glycol.
I picked up RV antifreeze from Tractor Supply today, $3.50 a gallon, so I'm going to try that out straight. I've been following some of the builds and discussion regarding whether to use a mix of polypropylene glycol or the RV stuff. I figured this was a relatively inexpensive experiment. Hopefully in a week or so i will get it all put together and do a test run to see how cold i can it.
I just ordered flex-watt, and have a roll of the bubble wrap insulation, so i should be up and running in no time!
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