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1. Does it get very hot under the high mounted HLT? I am a little concerned about my plastic cooler MLT lid being about 6 inches below the bottom of the burner ring.
It does get a bit hot, when I use my big mash tun and am heating the the sparge water i put some foil on to of the mash tun...
Looking to pick one of these up this week or next. Does it have some kind of drain? If I wash with pbw, what's the best way to rinse. Do I need to rinse the washer first?
I have a 10 15 and 20 boilermaker. The temp on the 10 is at 4 g and is at 6.5 g on the 15. On my 10 and 15, i used a step bit and lowered the the probes so that they would be good at an HLT and Boil kettle for 5 gallon batches. I recently got the 20 because I'm doing more 10 gallon batches and...
Thanks, this is 2 years old, thought the title of the thread on the main page looked familiar.
I get my stuff from either Dan's homebrew supplies in Vancouver, or online from places like Northern Brewer, AHS, or Williams.
It feels pretty good making something like this work although it is pretty basic, I was quite proud of myself never having doing anything electrical at all before. I didn't want to bother with unplugging it all the time so I built my switch right away. Hoping to brew again this weekend, have...