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Tried doing a New Holland Dragon Milk Imperial stout clone last night and managed to find the limit of what I can do on my mini system. 10 lbs of grain ended up being way too much. Now I wish I would have went with a larger kettle. Maybe I should have tried mashing without the basket. That...

Been experimenting with fermentation in an un-sealed fermenter. The krausen gets super funky.

I think I've finally fixed my issue. I connected the sensors to their own dedicated 5V power instead of using the arduino's 5V and haven't had a single error in my log for over an hour. I could be speaking too soon but I hope this fixes my never ending temperature sensor issues. I am...

Well, things were running fairly consistently for a few days but now it's back to being erratic and unstable. I ordered new sensors but may try powering the current sensors with an external 5v supply rather than using the Arduino as a power source. After, this I have pretty much changed...

If you ship I'll take the oxygen setup.

Picked up a couple shorty's! Time to move some beer and open up some fermentors so I can brew again this weekend. Not sure what I'm going to brew yet though. I've been on a milk stout kick lately and think I might try something along those lines but with peanut butter added into the mix.

PM sent about 2.5 gallons kegs.

Definitely in!

Thanks man! So far I've done 3 batches. Brewing on this kind of system is so fast and easy I've ran myself out of fermentation/storage vessels. I've never bottled but I may start just so I can keep brewing and stockpiling stouts. My next investment is going to be an oxygenation wand of some...

Well crap, I literally just finished building a small EBIAB system using an Auberins PID controller. This looks like it would be A LOT more fun. I already have the SSR and a few DS18B20's laying around. I might need to purchase another RPI and do a re-build.

Pm sent.

My quick disconnects finally arrived from China. It only took 38 days for shipping! Lesson learned there. Anyway, I can now easily remove the pump assembly as well as the hose. I also replaced my cheap ball valve with a nice 3 piece valve I just didn't get any pics. Overall, I am very happy...

Perfect. Thanks for the tip.

So do you gravity feed from the fermenter into the "out" on the keg and just relief the pressure as it fills?

I actually have a couple 2.5 gallon kegs ordered but don't want them tied up for long term storage so I'll use my 5 gallon kegs for that.

Nice. Thanks!

I recently started brewing 2.5 gallon batches instead of 5 gallon batches and now I want to bulk age a RIS. Would it be OK to do this in a 5 gallon keg if I were to purge the O2 with CO2? It's either that or I go buy some new 3 gallon glass carboys which I really don't want to do.

The wiring diagram is loosely based off of one of PJ's single element 120v diagrams. The knob controls the DC pump and is connected to a PWM circuit I purchased from ebay. It turns it on/off and can be used to control flow via pump speed.

It's a 120v 2000 watt stainless element from brew hardware. Between that and the stove I can go from mash out temps to boil very quickly.

There is definitely an issue with the ballast causing noise on the probes. I turned the light back on for awhile today and started losing graph data. I still get random errors about the sensors being disconnected but it isn't as bad as when the light is on. Also, thanks for the tip about the...