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if you you tube electric brewery theres a few vids with guys using them to boil beer so they do work but they also cycle which is not what we are after as we need to hold a consistant heat

where theres a will theres a way

we should be able to find blankets with out that option or is this a world wide safety factor of the blanket
i know as a kid i lived in the out house and i would leave mine on 24hours a day in winter dangerous but thats what we did in those days

I will be buying a few lecky blankets when i get home for exactly that reason if you look at the ferm wraps and heater pads for brewing they are not cheap so what do we do??

look for an alternative

great find JR shiner

I know you can not use a stainless pot on this IH type cooker as when we moved house i had to change all the pots and pans

This thing is turning out to be a real head turner i love the rivet technique and wow that is going to shine something bad
Its pretty big for a hobby boiler MR what will you be running through this mostly
keep those pics coming

Corns corn bro!!

+1 o the freeking awesome MR what a cool project what are you going to be heating her up with ??

I would think the best thing to do there would be find a reducer 1-1/2 -2" and make your easy flange onto that this way you can use a tri-clamp to join to the keg having a good seal is important but if you want to make the safest and best set-up being able to disconnect easily and neatly/conven...

my washes take about 14 days and their is no rush like you say it helsp to let it clear a lot also so you may just be better of satrting a new ferm and having two running dry at different intervals giving you time to manage one while the other is clearing i let mine clear for up to 6 week but that i...

From what i have read and my experience the ph of your wash is probably a little low and they tend to slow down once they reach below 4.0 you can use a table spoon of calcium carbonate to raise the ph which i have been doing for some time now i found a kilo on ebay for about 10$ add it to the ferm t...

+1 I have been doing this for some time not with backset but with left over wash to top up boiler i think it is the only way to go
there has to be flavour flowing over to the final spirit run.

Gday MR I have just had the same thing happen to one of my UJ ferments! I was a little concerned about it to start with but i let it ferm out i had 4 ferms to strip so i stripped the other first and then lastly stripped the lacto ferm i found no off flavours and actually thought it tasted quite good...

I have to ask but why are you using gas as well as electricity i would be very careful with the heat on that heating element junction box in fact i would not recommend using one with the other!
great setup with a bigger boiler this would be an ideal stripper for low wines

I reccomend you read this thread from the beginning and do a lot more reading
Once you have read it all keep reading other threads to get your head around
The fermentation process once you hve done his you shouldn't have to many
Questions good luck

You can always make starter for the yeast if you don't have enough And build up your yeast count that way I sometimes do if I have time 1. Litre of water To 1 cup of sugar boil for 10 min then cool to 22-25c then add yeast I also use a stir plate to speed up yeast propagation don't stress to much ab...

I plan to do the same have the heat exchanger outside and run hoses to the still giving me more room to play in the brewery less noise and cooler environment my room get plenty hot enough as it is

let us all know how you find it i have all bran at home at the moment so will put a batch of that on when i get home

+1 YC i like the sound of this wash and will probably give it a go soon
has anyone else had good experiences with this wash
im not big on vodka but i will be trying some infusions out and liked the idea of this wash having a good mouth feel to it

I have been thinking about cooling water design since i started this hobby and haven't seen a lot of theory or threads on this subject I really like the swamp cooler design for the reason that its a pretty cheap option I was using a 200ltr drum to hold my cooling water and found this not to be enoug...

+1 on the patience thing this hobby is to be taken slowly safely!

Rod01 what do you mean by "I heated to 50 degrees C" is this a technique i dont know yet?

the color looks great you should be very happy with the outcome

I couldnt run my wash for six weeks because of my work. the wash was fine but I found i had to add yeast to get it up and running again once i added the yeast she just off and got going again. even after six weeks the wash had not completely cleared which i have never really worried about . I use 9 ...

Danmiz, I have waited 20 days for the ferment to do its thing. I have started to stagger my washes so im not waiting for ferments I now have washes clearing and don't have time to run them so I like to have a bit of a 'stockpile' going then its not so hard to be patient. this wash is so good even af...

Gday Joel ,sounds like you have been busy I have been reading here for about 2 years and love it.

welcome !!

Thank Sam
this is exactly what i was looking for

I have been looking into buying a bubble plate column and am just wondering why in most of the designs that are built they have a vertical product condenser instead of having a 45 degree lyne arm style like on a pot still?

Hey so I am onto my third gen of UJJSM the first wash i ground my corn with my new crankenstein malt mill I had to adjust the rollers with a pretty exact gap and boy did it make my new mill work and it was really noisy about the neighborhood. So when I got to starting another wash of ujjsm I decided...

Thanks for the good news MR, I forgot to mention that i added about 4 litres of backset to each fermentor which i saved from the first gen stripping run. I suspected they would be ok, I found with just one fermentor it just would take to long to get any decent amount of product i picked up 3 60 ltr ...

MR , you are spot on, the space after adding the cooked corn took up a lot of space in the fermentor nearly half so i had already added the sugar to the fermentor meaning i had a sg of 1068 in about 30 liters so it took its time to ferment 19 days to be exact. i did the same recipe for the second wa...

Thanks MR i have another question to put out there my 1st mash took about 19 days to ferment out now my second wash is taking a long time to dry out also. 7.5 kilos of white sugar 7.5 kilos of cracked cooked corn I used 2 packs of nottingham ale yeast with a starter for the initial ferment and my fe...