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Hybrid gas/electric HERMS

I'm just starting to brew with my HERMS coil. I've done a couple of batches constantly recirculating, but pulling the liquid out and returning it to the bottom of the MLT. I need to look up the term "Vorlaufing" I think. I thought maybe I should be returning it to the top of the grain bed...

I bought an ultrasonic sensor pretty cheaply (~$10) that I've been wanting to use to sense the water level in my Hot Liquor Tank. It transmits an ultrasound pulse, measures return time, and gives a range reading in feet or meters or something. They're used on robots to range an object in its...

Deweyville, never heard of it but wiki tells me you're almost in Idaho! What's your line of work if you don't mind me asking? How long you been brewing? Thanks for the answer on the SSR btw. When I get time, I want to put pics up of my system. I've been working on it for several years if...

It was the fan. BTW, I have the 40A SSR. Heat sink is installed with thermal grease. Fan needs to blow continuously on heat sink, no problems after that.

I have turned it down during use and I think that might be working. I'll have to check to be sure. However, I have measured close to zero voltage difference between the SSR output terminals, indicating heater on, even though controller voltage measured 0 (actually floating at ~0.5 V). I'm...

Thanks. I'm hoping this will solve my efficiency problem.

I'd like to see how you did it if you wouldn't mind posting it. Thanks, Jeff

I'd like to see how you did it if you wouldn't mind posting it. Thanks, Jeff

Hi, I've got an electric HLT with a 5500 W element being controlled by a cheap little PID (1/16 DIN dual digital) and an Amico 25W SSR. At 5500 W, the current is 25A, 100% of the SSR rating. Now, I previously had a 4000W element, so I had some current head room. The problem I'm having is...

Hi all, I've finished my brewing system - a 10-gallon HERMS with the HE coil in the HLT. My mash tun is plastic 15 gal with several ports, some at the bottom and one on the side near the top. I'm recirculating the mash pulling it out of one bottom port and pumping back into another bottom...

I just brewed a Singha malt liquor and it smelled sulfury (rotten eggs) for the first few days. It went away and now smells and tastes pretty good! I did 10 gal but the brew store only had one package of the yeast the recipe called for. They gave me two different kinds that were supposedly...

I brewed 10 gal of a Singha malt liquor clone last night. We started brewing at around 1 pm and started two starters at that time. We pitched at room temp (~70F) at around 10 pm. The starters had just started to krausen but were not super active. We aerated the wort by shaking the fermenter...