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Braver man than me! :D Glad it work out for you and that looks so much better coming out the side than through the floor. I never got around to resealing my hole. I got my 1/4 bbl sanke fermenter up and running awhile ago and have had zero issues with blow off. Only CO2 comes out of the blow...

I have only done 4 batches and only 2 of them have been named. My very first batch was a porter. It came out okay (definitely drinkable) but had some off flavor issues. I almost called if Friendship Porter because all my friends kept telling me how good it was. I know they were being nice...

I work from home so on slow days (like today) it is easy to do speed replies ;) I thought about having a 4" tri-clover ferrule put on top but the cost was getting a bit steep with the hardware and having to pay someone to do the welding. I did build a keg cleaner (plenty of examples on the...

No problem on the pics. They are not the best but hopefully they will help. If not, I can get some better ones in a week or so once the fermenter is empty and I pull it out of the freezer. Jacket and redirecting the heat is exactly what I was thinking when I used the bubble insulation. I did...

I used 12" heat tape on my 1/4 bbl slim sanke. The two electrical connectors sit just perfect outside the ridges of the center of the keg. I also used a piece of reflectix bubble insulation slight taller (probably 15") as shield for the heat tape. It heats just fine for me even though the heat...

And that is what I get for not viewing the link. Sorry I saw sanke keg and thought this was about commercial sanke kegs.

This is what I just did last weekend to clean and fill a 1/6 bbl sanke. It was my first time doing it and I found it fairly straight forward but then again I researched the crap out of it first. I highly suggest doing a few practice runs filling and purging the keg to get the hang of things. I...

Very nice and inexpensive setup!

If the weather is nice out (which it should be) I will be building a collar for my chest freezer since my sanke fermenter is a tad too tall for it. I will also be kegging my first beer! Pretty excited about that.

Welcome to the forums Brian and Amy! Hey I am in San Diego (North Park) too, small world :) I have only done two batches so far (extract w/ specialty grains) and I am totally hooked on home brewing. This site is awesome and has already helped me to expand my operations into converting a chest...

I wanted to drill threw the side hump as well but everything I read was saying the floor was a safer bet. It all worked out as my probe was plenty long enough to go under the freezer, through the hole and into the thermowell of my carboy cap. Now that is a seriously vigorous fermentation! I...

Thanks!

I got a stout in the fermenter so even if I wanted to brew I couldn't. Instead I got around to making my carboy/keg cleaner.

Totally in! ZombieCat = ZombieCat

I say do it! If I had seen this model, I would easily have gotten it just to see if it worked.

It is hard to tell but looking at the picture it seems to have only one relay. If this is true then it is only a single stage controller. In the question section someone asks if it is two-stage but the answers are conflicting. Amazon has a great return policy so you could get it and look to see...

Nice job! I ended up doing the same thing with my chest freezer, pull out all the factory wiring and wire the STC-1000 directly. I am fairly lazy after a "job" is done so I never got around to doing a thread on it. For mounting the STC-1000 I cut my mounting plate (from an old plastic food...

I had all sorts of excuses to brew yesterday. Besides having the day off, I needed to give my fermentation chamber its first true run :D I got a recipe (DME with specialty grains) from my LHBS for a good stout that was around 7%. Came out with a nice dark coloring and an OG of 1.082.

When I saw this thread title I immediately thought "I wonder if this is about that $100 mini-fridge at Home Depot?" A couple weeks ago I went and looked at this fridge because the price was so attractive for a new fridge. I know it wont fit a 6 gallon better bottle carboy but I think it would...