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I had the same issue and just recently entered a comp where you had to brew onsite with your own gear and I decided to "cube" my brew to make it faster BUT didnt cube it till it was below 65degc and did all my sub 20mins additions as per normal......I came second so was a great brew. In short...

Yup get back to basics.....I had the same issue then came up with a recipie I called "Taking It Back" in thought of getting my brewery back to where I wanted it, A simple simcoe smash beer and it came out great, Good enough to win me a concial fermenter even. Sometimes you just got hit the...

My first pot with a valve on the bottom to do a BIAB brew.........From there I have full temp controll,electric,kegs etc etc etc..........7 fridges/freezers wife wants to know how she married a hoarder...

Ive peaked at 10%.........Was supposed to be farmhouse ale 20ltrs with around 9kg grains and a mangroves jack yeast...........Was horrible I called it petrol and vouched to never make it again..But I did drink it all!!!!!

Hey mofox1 yes I do have industry experiance.....My job is an instrumentation technician so I work alot with RTD's T/C's etc and spend a lot of time designing and calibrating temp measuring systems. Three meters should be good if its good copper wire Wireless is certianly possible we built a...

Any copper cable will do as thats the whole reason behind 3/4 wire RTD's is that the cable resistance doesnt really affect the RTD output but in saying that I wouldnt go much over a few meters if we are going longer that that we use a temp transmitter which changes the ressitance to a 4-20mA...

Another thing to seriously consider is the current switching abilitys of both......I feel way more comfortable switching high current drawing elements with a SSR as opposed to a STC-1000 I'd hate to have STC relay fuse shut and melt down on me.......I deal with a lot of temp control instruments...

Pac Gem.......give it shot I like it many dont

Hahahaha wash your mouth out....

You can even add your own "brewery" to untapped.......Mines "Malt Monster Brewery"

I heard breathing air can lead to cancer..........There will always be a website slaming something....How many brewers have been "no chilling" for how long now?.....I'd be more worried about second hand smoke than "leaching" plastic stuff.

I had a plastic bottle go in the middle of the night........beer everywhere I reckon the mrs was still in a stupor as she helped me clean it up at 2am, no questions asked...

Yup.......Just remember you only switch the active phase everything else just gets transferred through to your cooling/heating item...INCLUDING EARTH

Once I got temp control I dove right into lagers with great results trying everything from di-rests to crashing etc etc etc..........I can hardly drink anything commercial now due to the horrid wheat/rice tastes that come through straight away. They cant be that bad as all my "commercial"...

Stuff it I pulled a pint(In keg for 5 days at 12psi)........Its GOOD bit bitter but I know there is hops there as in sneezing the same as I do while making the brew hahahahahaha......If it gets better with age it will be cracker.....Bitter lager type.