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If you do wire a 110v circuit off of one leg of the 240v GFI, everything on that needs to be rated for the full 50A of the GFI, which means you can't just put a 15A or 20A edison duplex on there as it's on a 50A breaker. You would have the potential to pull 50 amps through a 15 amp plug, which...

I want to preface this by saying be very carful around electricity. I am not an electrician, nor do I assume any responsibility if you burn your house down or electrocute yourself. You need to keep the neutral conductors separate for each GFI circuit. A GFI works by sensing the total...

Revvy hit the nail on the head: leave it in there for awhile. I'd check gravity once a week or so, and don't worry about leaving it on the yeast for awhile. Remember, Belgain brews are supposed to have some yeast character, so assuming your yeast is appropriate, and there's nothing making...

Someone asked for this, so here goes. This is my first recipe posting, and I'm not at my brew-house so I don't have hard numbers handy so this is from memory, but I'll update later: 5gal batch, full boil from 6gal. Partial mash of 4 pounds crushed 2 row Breiss + 1 pound crystal for...

The first batch of our raspberry belgian did this because the seeds from the raspberrys clogged the airlock. Unfortunately it got infected and ruined a ~$70 batch :-( Re-brewed it, fermented with a blowoff, and it turned out to be the best thing I have ever brewed. Worth it even with the...

Check out these guys: http://www.coolitsystems.com/ They specialize in Peltier based liquid chillers for computer cooling. I have one of their 'Eliminator' systems in my PC, and it runs consistently around 20 degrees F below ambient temp. They have components for custom stuff which...

I did exactly the same thing when drilling my Coleman Extreme MLT for the thermothingy. Fortunately I need a separate 1/2" bulkhead for my sight glass anyway, so I found a fitting that will let me mount both to a stainless 1/2" T fitting and just enlarge the hole to fit a 1/2" nipple.

I've been wanting to try brewing a bourbon stout for awhile, but my only experience was a spoiled batch from I'm guessing not getting the oak chips we used perfectly sanitized. Anyone who's using wood, how are you sanitizing your chips/barrels? Does boiling oak chips make them lose flavor...

I wasn't suggesting that this hypothetical system would actually be buildable, and you're right, I totally ignored the mass of the grain, which would make a HUGE difference. 8000 watts in general doesn't scare me, since I'm looking at propane heat for the HLT, but actually transferring all that...

Well, not having brewed an AG yet, but considering building a HERMS and having a decent understanding of thermodynamics, this thread is really interesting to me. Without any specific measurements (purely hypothetical HERMS setup), you could concievably have a big enough coil that the wort...

I have the same problem occasionally with my burner (same as the ones you have as far as I can tell) which is not on a solenoid, just a ball valve. The ball valve is hard plumbed right on the inlet to the burner, and I've occasionally lost the hair on my arm when I shut it off from exactly the...

But have you ever used your BK propane burner to help keep the smoker hot while smoking a turkey in -10F weather? :cross: As far as the copper glue stuff goes, no experience with it here, but soldering isn't that hard to learn, and I agree having a torch around is nice for other stuff too...

Hi all, I've been reading the forums here for awhile, lots of good info and ideas. My friend and I are almost finished with our all-grain setup, and I'm looking for ideas for the first batch with it. We've been brewing extract/partial mash brews for almost 2 years, covering most of the...

It is definitely a 2 wire device. The manufacturer calls it a thermocouple, which means it outputs a small voltage rather than varying in resistance. I'm going to stick a meter on it and see what kind of voltage it actually puts out. Thanks for the replies. O/T: Anyone know a good free...

Yeah, the calibration screws appear to only adjust a few degrees one way or the other, so I'll probably have to trick the processor into thinking its much cooler than it actually is. I'm getting the valve for free, so it's worth a little work to make it function. It's all stainless, and is...

I've had the (possibly) good fortune to aquire one of these: Hass Manufacturing Company Online Search Results from a retiring photographer who had a pretty advanced lab/darkroom. I am thinking about building a HERMS based on this unit, which is basically a highly precise hot/cold water...