Recent content by dragon99

I believe the problem would be that its harder to cut an exact size hole for the element directly in the gang box. If you punch the 1 1/4" hole directly in the gang box then you can probably skip the back plate.

I brewed this kit last night. I too was a little thrown by the amount (and type) of hops included for late hopping. Tettanger or Hersbrucker are the hops of choice for the style. And there is typically no aroma addition. My guess is they used the sale as an opportunity to clear out some excess...

The wort correction factor is used when "Alcohol correction" is enabled. This allows you to get a FG reading from fermented beer (the alcohol messes with refractometers). The exact wort correction varies for every brewery, but typically 1.04 is close enough (its usually between 1.02 and 1.06)...

I'm going to try and save mine until Christmas. Or as close to that as I can hold out.

Interesting recipe. I'm brewing mine tonight and just stumbled on this thread. Here's the recipe I'm going with. I originally planned to do this as no-sparge (hence the 55% eff), but I'll probably go with a tight mash and sparge a gallon or so. What type of oak did you go with? I purchased...

What are you using to pump and cool through the immersion chiller? Just ice water? and a small submersible pump? There's mention of a jacketed version which I find VERY exciting. Is that going to be sold as a kit? Or would I have to add my own glycol chiller?

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If your into lambics it would be great. And yes, it would be a thing of beauty I'm sure. I can't imagine there's any possible way to sanitize a wooden fermenter (short of burning it out) tho.

Woohoo update is finally available from App store. Thanks again for the great App. Here's hoping for xml import soon. I have two friends who now have BrewPal and I'd love to share my recipes.

If I understand what your asking correctly... ~9inches from the top of the lid to the wall (assuming its pushed up against). Mine is about 2 inches away from the wall and its 11.5"

I purchased mine approx 1 year ago and I can easily get 4 cornies on the floor plus a 10lb CO2.

Don't know that I have a perfect answer for ya yet, but I'm in the process of building a Counter-top 20 and I have every intention of using an immersion chiller. Soldering on a couple/three legs sounds like the best bet. A few pieces of copper tubing straightened and cut about 1-2" long outta...

I'm with EBloom97. Basically you just need to lower you expectations. If your consistently missing your OG, then 75% eff isn't what you should be basing your recipe on. The next question you have to ask is if you are OK with a lower efficiency? Personally I rarely get better than 70%eff and I'm...

Does anyone ever have problems with condensation while brewing indoors? I had planned to set this up in my laundry room until I considered there's no vent hood there.

What version of iPhone OS are you on? I'm assuming your on the latest (3.1.3) We can always hope that the app gets updated for 4.0 with some fixes.