Recent content by gometz

Hah good point. Edited to add that.

I have my propane system up for sale. It's a Blichmann Top Tier stand with a Top Tier and Hellfire burner, 7.5 gallon kettle or HLT, and a mash tun. Everything is in great shape, never had issues with it just switched to electric. All you need to get a great set up is a pump and another kettle...

Thanks, I didn't want to pay hundreds for a stainless one, this one cost less than $60 to build and stain. The fan and ducting also only cost about $80 total.

Finished setting up my new brewery last night, waiting on some hose parts to do a water run this week. Maybe if I can get my hands on some kveik yeast I'll brew something this weekend too.

I'm interested if it's still available, literally ordered parts for my panel today and this is close enough that I could do the modifications.

Let me know what you end getting for the tower. I'm upgrading to electric and will be selling mine after.

Korean dunkel (Actual name is Bosingak Dunkel by The Table Brewery in Seoul) Not bad, a bit too much bitterness at the end but good otherwise.

Thanks everyone for the explanations. I will probably go with the location next to the sub panel where I can draw 50A through the right sizes wire in that case (unless I decide to just back to back it carefully). I realized though that I think I will probably do a RIMS setup with a 120V element...

Decent sweet potato Amber in my hotel in Tokyo

Okay just checked the basic equations P=I*V and P=V^2/R so if the controller is reducing the power (heat input), it is increasing resistance and therefore decreasing the flow. Some of the current will go to heat, but does all of it?

Thanks everyone. I guess my thinking is if I can wait until the boil starts to start heating the next batches water then it wouldn't draw over 30A, but I also don't remember much from electrical physics in undergrad (or the one electrical engineering course I had to take for my degree). So...

Hey everyone, I'm planning to build an electric control panel to be able to run two batches back to back. I've read people recommend 50A to be as to do this, but often people say this is for batches up to 20 gallons. I'll be doing 10 gallons max, more likely 5-6 gallon batches. So I am...

Sorry if came off dismissive, it seems that I didn't explain the full plan well and most of the responses were reviewing something I wasn't proposing. That why while most are saying they don't think it will work, they were thinking of something else or just dismissing it outright. I did the...

To all, the details are below of what I propose. Please provide feedback on the idea: 1. Batch sizes 5.5 to 6 gallons 2. Two reservoirs, each 9 gallons capacity 3. 8,000 to 10,000 BTU AC unit converter to chiller with a 3-4 gallon glycol solution reservoir Steps would be: A. Use reservoir 1...

Your mention of the average temp is kind of where I was going, but oversizing the reservoirs to 9 gallons or so, prechill both (so a total of 18 gallons) to 35-40, use the first to get down to about 115 (using a 10 degree approach limit) then the second should be able to get it down to about 80...