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Hi all @wilconrad and @alphaomega, I have a BlackBoxBrew controller from 2013-2014 and is starting to act weird. I was using the chest freezer as a second fridge during early covid and it was doing fine keeping a constant 40° and then in the last month it went up to 58. I turned everything off...

So I was thinking of making a Sour Melomel. I had heard that honey and bugs don't like each other so I was going to start with fruit nutrients and some honey and step feed it. the goal is 4 gallons. Start with fruit in 3 gallons of water with 3lbs of honey. add nutrients and direct pitch...

I have two that can be 1, 2, or 3 year for half of 33, 54, or 75... 16.50, 27, or 37.50. ;) PM me first come first serve. I'll accept PayPal friends and family or you add 3%. Cheers! -decoleur

Finally got my 5500W ULWD ripple elements from Bobby_M with the TC housing to connect to the TC on my pot. And now I find that when the ripple is horizontal because of the location of the dip tube and the whirlpool port my SS hop filter no lo get fits. If I orient the ripple vertically it fits...

Looking a PJ designs and others I see that some use no fuses and some put one on every device. I was thinking of having one on the circuit feeding the pumps and another on the circuit with the PIDs. Recently I have seen a couple that put a fuse in the E-Stop to contactor circuit. Is that going...

I made a 5 gallon batch of Chocolate Aphrodisiac, racked twice and let it age for a year before bottling. Now 6 months later I want to enter it into some competitions and yet I bottled the whole batch in 1L flip tops. Can it be rebottled into 12 oz. or should I just start on a new batch and...

I want to have float switches on my kettles to prevent dry-firing the elements. Would it make more sense to put the float switch between the PID and the SSR or in front of the coil for the contactor that the SSR is feeding? If it is between the PID and the SSR the float prevents the SSR...

looking to get something like what morebeer sells. http://www.morebeer.com/products/counterflow-chiller-caddy.html I am near Pittsburgh. -decoleur

SOLD 7 X New electronic Stainless ball valves SOLD BCS DIGI Expander card never used SOLD 16 port relay for Ball Valves with 12v 5a power supply SOLD Thanks for looking! Timur

I got a 4" tower with matching generic chrome faucets from pfranke in this previous thread. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=531511 I am not going to be able to use it and want to pass it on for my cost. $90 shipped gets you a 4 inch tower, 3 chrome faucets, and shanks with a...

I saw the recipe for Rumkin from Avery in Craft Brew magazine and thought 27.5 pounds of grain for a 5 gallon batch... YES please. the recipe starts with OG1.135 target is FG1.020, but the london ale yeast is only rated to 11%abv. the recipe recommends a gigantic starter, will that work? my...

I am looking at setting up a two element panel with two pumps. I want to be able to heat strike water independently from my HLT for 5 or 10g batches. The neutrik powercon has an adapter that is rated at 32a RMS. http://www.neutrik.com/en/audio/powercon/powercon-32-a/ If I have two 5500w...

I saw the approach that BYO magazine had in their Nov 2014 issue here: https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/3167-build-a-better-homebrew-pump I really like the manifold in figure 2 and am thinking of doing something like it. I am still looking for ideas so I wanted to put it out there... How...

So I got rid of the table saw that I kept in my kitchen in trade to my neighbor for a chest freezer. it is a 15 foot deep chest freezer that looks to be from 1979. I kept it in the garage for years and on my last move brought it into the basement. when i started thinking about controlling...

So I got a great deal on Snowberry honey and made my first basic mead as a 5 gallon batch. It has fermented down to 1.004 in about 2 months and has a strange honey+tang thing going.I am not sure how to describe what it is but it is not very pleasant. What other info should I provide to help...

5 gallon glass 18.50 each no shipping. In Murrysville, pa http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/for/4025186675.html Not mine but wanted to share. Hope this helps.

I came across some very nice maple syrup at one of the local festivals and thought I would try Maple wine. 2 Gallons of Amber Syrup and 3 Gallons of spring water later I am at a SG of 1.135. Started D-47 in 1000ml water with 100g of extra light bries DME the night before and pitched it...

While trying to use a big two mesh filter on wort going into my primary fermentor I had issues with the 10" funnel not staying put. I just couldn't trust it to not tip over, again. I tried wrapping the junction between funnel and carboy with multiple layers of aluminum foil which sort of worked...