Recent content by gerard weyns

My fiancé’s father is building us one of the coolest wedding bars I’ve ever seen! If you’re in the PNW check him out on Facebook at Woodworx he does awesome work. He’s just got some trim and staining left and then the rest is up to me. I’m planning on each wine barrel having a draught faucet and...

I’m currently fermenting in glass carboys and really need to upgrade to a larger fermenter. Splitting up 10+ gallon batches into multiple fermenters just isn’t working. I came across this picture of a glass carboy converted into a conical fermenter, and I don’t see why it couldn’t be done with a...

Still really like the idea of this keg though. A couple of alterations and this could be in every home brewers garage. I’m thinking a safety catch for the spear, a second port for a carbonation stone, and dropping the price to around $150. I’ll take 5.

Go Cougs!! I graduated from Wazzu Pullman last Fall. Actually built my brewery up at school a few years ago. A couple of lectures may have been missed because of it... lol. Great observation I didn’t think about the potential for a spear to the face. The ball lock adapters look like a great...

Does anybody have experience with this “Corny Killer” 5 gallon keg with a 4” tri clamp removable spear? https://www.kegoutlet.com/16bbl-5-gallon-sanke-keg-with-tri-clamp-removable-spear.html Would solve the problem of myself, my dad, my father in-law, and my friends needing to swap liquid and...

I have brewed 6 batches now on my 3-vessel electric herms rig and I am having a blast. 4 out of the 6 I have either hit my original gravity or gotten very close, but two of the batches came out much lower than what the recipe called for. The first was a whit that came out at 1.039 when it...

Big thanks to everybody for all of the advice! Nearly two weeks later than originally planned I worked out the kinks in my control panel and was finally able to brew my first batch last night. It was surprisingly easy. I hit all of my numbers and currently have 5.5 gallons of centennial blonde...

Resolved the issue and brewed my first batch last night!

On the 310 there are 4 LEDs. The second from the bottom is lit up yellow and when I push run the bottom LED lights up green, but the elements still are not heating up. Does it sound like its in the right mode and the problem might be elsewhere?

I just finished wiring up my control panel for my 3 vessel eHERMS and I'm having some issues. https://skrilnetz.net/how-to-build-a-brewing-control-panel-herms-240v-30-amp/ These are the schematics I followed and the only components that are different are the PIDs. I used an EZboil 310 for the...

I've got a big free standing cabinet that I am installing an ac unit in until I feel like dropping some more cash to build a good fermentation chamber. Not the most precise way to go about it but it should work for now. In general how much does the wort heat up during fermentation? The recipe...

I have been looking into the plastic inductor tank conical fermenters that people have been building. What kind of fermenter are you using?

I'm not too intimidated by the brew process for my system. I've become pretty familiar with it having spent the last 3 months researching and building my system. Glad to here it's ok to go with bottled water. I was under the impression that my refractometer would replace a hydrometer, but after...

So I've never actually brewed beer before. I was planning on starting out slow, but I am at a point in my life where I had the time to do it so I pulled the trigger and built a 3 vessel eHERMS with 15 gallon pots. You can check it out in the DIY forums. Anyways I am just finishing up the...

Well its finally starting to take shape!! Haven't quite installed the RTD probes yet, but other than that the pots are all finished. Inline RTD sensors in NPT Ts after the ball valves on the HLT and mash tun, and one installed in the boil kettle wall. I'm pretty proud of my HERMs coil, sparge...