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Thanks for all the tips everyone. I think I'll get a digital one and just drop the probe in and see how that goes. Speaking of bumping the probe if you drilled through the mashtun, does anyone know if you can saw down the length of those temperature probes? Are they just solid pieces of...

That's the idea. I don't want to pop the lid because I'd lose heat that way. I want a thermometer in the side, so that as I'm adding the water and breaking up the doughballs, I can be sure the temp is correct before closing the lid. I have a thermapen, but it doesn't reach to the lower...

Any recommendations on the best (most accurate) thermometer to install in a round 10 gallon cooler mash tun? I've seen several advertised, but for the mechanical ones people complain about proper calibration. For the digital ones, I'm concerned about proper calibration and battery power, etc...

Thanks all. I will contact Wilserbrewer. Looking forward to this; it should make clean-up so much easier!

Perfect! That will help filter out grain husks too in the mash. Where do you get big BIAB mesh bags? I have a 10 gallons round cooler and a 40 gallon rectangular one.

Given the level of expertise here, I was wondering if anyone has any particularly good ways to move the leftover grain in the mash tun out to the garbage. I've been using garbage bags, but on one occasion (nearly two) these have broken. My wife and I put it into a little laundry basket to keep...

I'm shopping around for a C02 compressor, so I can fill my own CO2 tanks. However, I'm not getting the results I want. I keep coming across "air compressors" for air-brushing or paintball. :( Anyone know where to go to look for these and what the might be called other than "Co2...

I recirculated with just the hoses without the sparge arm. Still funks up the chugger pump, but that can easily be cleaned by pumping water and sanistar. IDK, I guess I'll keep doing it for now.

15 gal spike brewing kettle boiling 5 gallons of water, mash tun is a 30 gallon cooler (rectangle). I recirculate the wort for 10 minutes using a chugger pump. Then I sparge the boiled water into the mash tun while draining off the wort. The question is why recirculate for 10 minutes...

I'm brewing with all grain recipes and I have always recirculated before beginning the sparge. However, I only do this because that's what everyone says to do. But apart from getting may sparge arm dirty and making clean-up more difficult, is this really doing anything or is it one of...

Finally working up to par. The problem was that in splitting the gasline, you drop the pressure in both lines 50% (so I went from 7" WC to 3 1/2" WC). Putting a valve on both lines allows me to keep full pressure in the burner line when I need it and the dryer line other times. [skip this...

After consulting a chemist friend who works on sour gas streams, he said the split would drop the pressure from 7" WC to 3 1/2" WC in both lines, so he recommended another valve on the dryer side. That means either brewing or doing laundry. I attached this today and shut off the dryer...

I have a blichmann burner with a natural gas conversion kit. I linked the burner to the natural gas coming in from the wall and I made sure to use the smaller 1/8" aperture hex nipple into the burner itself that came with the conversion kit (the default hex connection for propane is larger)...

It's plugged into and STC-1000 controller in a project box. It's in the "cool" plug, i.e. when the temp gets above range, the STC turns the cool plug on and the freezer starts cooling things down until the max cold temp is exceeded and it shuts the plug off again. The STC is fine...

Really? No one knows how to diagnose why a keezer stopped cooling?

My keezer stopped keezing recently. I don't know if its out of freon or if the motor is no good (makes "some" noise). Anyone know a good step-by-step guide to troubleshooting a (k)freezer problem?