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I suspect the number of digital watches required is a touch larger than the number of hydrometers required so it may not quite drop to a level where everyone will have one. Would be nice if it came down to below $30.....

Bleach is not very good at all to rinse bottles out with as it would take substantially longer to flush them numerous times before you are ensured that all the bleach is gone. If it is not all gone and there is some left, I would expect the beer to taste pretty aweful and even between different...

Another option is to ensure that your stainless kettle is all fine and then perform a brew with fresh malt. To re-juvinate your kettle you could make up a weak caustic soda solution (be sure to read all the safety instructions as it has to be treated with care) to fill your stainless vessel...

If you think you can taste your stainless in your beer, I would suggest you are likely to be cleaning it with the wrong chemicals or treating it incorrectly in some other way. To my knowledge most breweries run stainless steel kettles and fermenters as it can be cleaned with harsh chemicals...

I am not sure about the savings in postage being the reason for buying in larger quantity. With large items like a fermenter you would be paying for the volumetric weight rather than the actual weight. Unlike pots, these can't really be stacked inside one another unless you weld the legs of...

Yum yum has some very good points and I would agree that the pressure it should hold should only be enough to move the beer around with CO2. The idea to carbonate in the fermenter is fine but for home use it isn't as important as being able to move the beer around and keep Oxygen from getting in...

Here are some design aspects I like about my conical fermenter: 1. Not too tall so it could fit inside a fridge 2. Racking arm can be rotated when you loosen the clamp so you can set where it collects the beer from. 3. Triclover fittings for the racking arm and the dumping outlet 4. Very clean...

Tony, I know that the kit you bought is at the upper end of what could be used for automation and control. I can't help but wonder if your build might be deviating from the original spirit of the thread which did question paying whatever a Braumeister costs. What sort of coin have you spent...

Notung, I would think that the bottom filter plates are quite useful if you want to get the remaining liquid out of your malt pipe as you lift that up without grains getting into your wort? While there are two trains of thought, I prefer the idea filling the malt pipe from the bottom. It is...

If you wanted to add yeast, it would be best to get a bit more DME, boil it up, cool it down and use a sanatized bottle to start a fermentation with hydrated yeast. Once it gets going, pour that into the fermenter and hope it finishes any fermentables off. If you just pitch yeast into an almost...

What was your original measured Original Gravity? I have bottled beer at higher gravities than yours, however they started off with a very high OG and they didn't explode either. Also, if you are going to bottle and you suspect it may continue to ferment out a bit more, I would add a little...

Great find. They look like they have a sandwich base and these Pakistani imports are constructed better than some of the other Chinese imported pots that rust and leak. They look quite good but a bit wide for a kettle and possibly too wide for a mash tun, so probably perfect for a HLT...

I was under the impression that the valve goes after the pump so the pump gets as much liquid on the input side. Since it is magnetic, throttling it at the output should be fine. So having the valve after the kettle before the pump could starve the pump from getting enough liquid. Regards Roller

I am just sipping on one now. A small local liquor store had a few bottles so I picked up two. Very nice beer. It has some nice sweet malt flavours, a bit fruity perhaps with some really nice strong hop aroma and enough bitterness to balance it. It makes for a really nice combination of a...

BlackRat, Just asking what you were using for heating? Obviously with one of these controllers if the ambient temperature drops below your desired low point (10 degrees) a fridge by itself isn't going to heat to keep it at that temperature so you would need a heater. I would suggest it...

I would have thought that the water above the tap is going to be a bit cooler than the water exiting the tap since that would be lower and closer to the element. The best way would be to stir the water so that you get a similar temperature throughout the Urn in which case you could place it mid...

They do say size doesn't matter.... Looks quite interesting. Has anyone had experience of using a coil like this for chilling the actual fermenter instead of putting a fermenter in a fridge?

I have imported one of the 208 liter pots in the past and stopped short of ordering more than one for the following reasons: 1. Postage is calculated by the volume of the item - Unless you can stack smaller Blichmann pots inside larger ones, you will not get much postage benefits from a bulk...

I would not trust it to even be working reliably with 60 degree liquid for a prolonged period of time. I suspect if you get closer to mash out temperatures, the pump may have issues getting rid of the heat buildup or even worse it might cause the plastic to degrade. A lot of pumps would be...

It would depend on the strength of the aroma of each beer and the pressure in the kegs. If one keg with a strong (possibly off) beer has greater pressure and is continuing to equalize with the other keg, there would be a chance that the second keg could retain some of these flavours. I would...